#0865 · 🐦 birds

Desert Wheatear

🇳🇱 Woestijntapuit ·Oenanthe deserti

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Bastien Louboutin · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © SP CHOUDHARY · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © R.Rodrigues · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Daniel Eskildsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Mohamed Salah · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Tarique Sani · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. 13310 Saint-Martin-de-Crau, France:© Mathis Garro · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Bray Head:© Stephen M. · CC BY-SA 4.0
9. Malborough, UK:© A. Oram · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 34570 Montarnaud, France:© Thomas ARMAND · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The desert wheatear ( Oenanthe deserti ) is a wheatear, a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher (Muscicapidae). 9 in) in length. Both western and eastern forms of the desert wheatear are rare vagrants to western Europe. The western desert wheatear breeds in the Sahara and the...

base stats

NL sightings 9iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,744iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).