#0902 · 🐦 birds

Isabelline Wheatear

🇳🇱 Izabeltapuit ·Oenanthe isabellina

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Donna Pomeroy · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Daniel Eugenio Pérez Garrido · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Vlada Trailin · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
6. © Mick Sway · CC BY-ND 4.0
7. © Анна Голубева · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. © Noel Reynolds · CC BY 4.0
9. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Nik Borrow · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The isabelline wheatear ( Oenanthe isabellina ) is 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 in the family Muscicapidae. It is a migratory insectivorous bird. Its habitat is steppe and open countryside and it breeds in southern Russia and central Asia to northern Pakistan, wintering in Africa and northwestern India. It is a very rare vagrant to...

base stats

NL sightings 5iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,854iNaturalist observations
weight 29 gadult, up to
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).