Chats, Old World Flycatchers

White-crowned Wheatear

Oenanthe leucopyga

The White-crowned Wheatear (Oenanthe leucopyga) is a 28 g desert bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It stays put all year.

Family

Chats, Old World Flycatchers

Order

Passeriformes

Weight

28 g

Habitat

Desert

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

18

Recorded in Morocco, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Netherlands, Palestine, EH, Tunisia, Mauritania, Kuwait, Djibouti, Denmark, Niger, United Arab Emirates, Chad, Ethiopia.

Where to see it: Fada, Ennedi (Chad); Petra (Jordan); Air and Tenere National Nature Reserve (Niger); Oued Jenna (Western Sahara); Qasr Ahmed (Libya).

Photo: (c) Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist