#0945 · 🐦 birds

Pied Wheatear

🇳🇱 Bonte Tapuit ·Oenanthe pleschanka

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Анна Голубева · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Natalya Andreyenkova · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Сергей Викторович Леденков · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Андреенков Олег Владимирович · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © neotrigonia · CC0
6. © Алексей Эбель · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Vitaliy Khustochka · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Ira Han · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The pied wheatear ( Oenanthe pleschanka ) is a wheatear, a small insectivorous 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 (family Muscicapidae). This migratory central Asiatic wheatear occurs from the extreme southeast of Europe to China, and has been found wintering in India and northeastern Africa. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.

base stats

NL sightings 3iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,066iNaturalist observations
weight 2.4 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).