#1007 · 🐦 birds

Eastern Black-eared Wheatear

🇳🇱 Oostelijke Blonde Tapuit ·Oenanthe melanoleuca

🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Valia Pavlou · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Janne Teivonen · CC BY 4.0
5. © amantedarmanin · CC BY 4.0
6. © inlandbirder · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 20600 Furiani, France:© Quentin · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 20600 Furiani, France:© Thomas ARMAND · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Fluke Hall Lane, Preston, England, GB:© Tim Cowley · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Aksu/Antalya, Турция:© Vsevolod Rudyi · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The eastern black-eared wheatear ( Oenanthe melanoleuca ) is a wheatear, a small migratory passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher (family Muscicapidae). It was formerly (and still is by some authorities) considered conspecific with the western black-eared wheatear.

base stats

NL sightings 1iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,817iNaturalist observations

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).