#1189 · 🐦 birds

Black Wheatear

🇳🇱 Zwarte Tapuit ·Oenanthe leucura

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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1. © Isidro Vila Verde · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
3. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
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10. © Ximo Galarza · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

The black wheatear ( Oenanthe leucura ) 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 of the Muscicapidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,345iNaturalist observations
weight 40 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).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
2,345 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 40 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789 (237 years ago).