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Rusty-breasted Wheatear
Oenanthe frenata (Heuglin, 1869)
Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
Rusty-breasted Wheatear, Oenanthe frenata, is a bird of the family Muscicapidae that breeds in montane Eritrea, where it is rare, and in Ethiopia. It is part of the Old World flycatcher group and is found in the Ethiopian Highlands. It was once treated as a subspecies of the red-breasted wheatear, now known as the buff-breasted wheatear. The species was described by Heuglin in 1869.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae — Chats, Old World Flycatchers
- Breeding range
- Africa: montane Eritrea (rare) and Ethiopia
