Pied Wheatear

Oenanthe pleschanka (Lepechin, 1770)

Pied Wheatear, Oenanthe pleschanka, is a passerine of the Muscicapidae family that breeds across parts of eastern Europe and Asia, from Romania and Ukraine through southern Russia to Mongolia and central China, and winters in northeastern Africa. It is a wheatear of open, stony ground with sparse vegetation, and it nests in holes, beneath stones or in rock crevices. The male is strongly patterned in black and white, with a white crown, black face and throat, and white rump. The tail shows a black inverted T on white.

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers

Breeding range

Palearctic: Romania and Ukraine to sc Russia, Mongolia and c China

Nonbreeding range

ne AF