Additional Information
English Northern Wheatear
Scientific (Oenanthe oenanthe)
Order PASSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Muscicapidae
Family (English) Chats, Old World Flycatchers
Other name(s)
Regions EU
Breeding Range Subregions widespread, also n NA, nw Africa
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA) map Sweden,Somalia,Guinea,Mozambique,Czech Republic,Ethiopia,Equatorial Guinea,Portugal,Nigeria,Netherlands Antilles,Japan,Latvia,Turkey,Tunisia,Morocco,Malawi,Mali,Croatia,United Kingdom,Slovenia,Israel,India - mainland,Malta,Algeria,Serbia,Azerbaijan,Bulgaria,Lebanon,Iraq,Belarus,Netherlands,Niger,Ukraine,Romania,Cameroon,Greece,Germany,San Marino,Belgium,Burkina Faso,Monaco,Palestine,Uzbekistan,France,United Arab Emirates,Malaysia,Libya,Rwanda,Syria,Benin,Mongolia,Hungary,Zambia,Liechtenstein,Pakistan,China,Sierra Leone,Gibraltar,Western Sahara,Estonia,Eritrea,Angola,Ivory Coast,Armenia,Saudi Arabia,Guinea-Bissau,Oman,Turkmenistan,Ireland,Qatar,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Iceland,Ghana,French Polynesia,Djibouti,Slovakia,Tajikistan,Poland,Togo,Moldova,Spain,Gabon,Kenya,Egypt,Macedonia,Switzerland,Lithuania,Norway,Canada,Cyprus,Luxembourg,Iran,Mauritania,Kyrgyzstan,Russia,Finland,Tanzania,Chad,Austria,Kazakhstan,Jordan,Uganda,Italy,Yemen,Gambia,Liberia,Burundi,Bahrain,Kuwait,Georgia,Sudan,Afghanistan,Greenland,Denmark,Senegal,Andorra,Albania,United States - Alaska,United States - mainland,Central African Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Comoros,Congo,South Sudan,
Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
leucorhoa ne Canada, Greenland and Iceland
oenanthe n, c Europe through n Asia to e Siberia and nw North America
libanotica s Europe through the Middle East and sw Asia to Mongolia and nw China
seebohmi nw Africa
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
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German Steinschmätzer
French Traquet motteux
Chinese 穗䳭
Japanese ハシグロヒタキ
Russian Каменка
Spanish Collalba gris
Portuguese chasco-cinzento
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)