Red-rumped Wheatear

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.

The Red-rumped Wheatear is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

Crested Larks, Red-rumped Wheatear and Black-eared Wheatear were abundant. We soon reach the river, surprisingly little to see, Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher and Grey Heron. By lunch we were at Plage Blanche with Sandwich Tern & Yellow-legged Gull on the shore line and Cormorant & Gannets offshore. More

Kurdish Wheatear, Chestnut-rumped Wheatear or Red-rumped Wheatear, is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. The Red-tailed Wheatear (O. chrysopygia) was formerly considered a subspecies of this bird but is now often regarded as a separate species. Its breeding range covers south-east Turkey, northern Iraq and western Iran. It migrates south in winter to the Arabian Peninsula and north-east Africa. References - * BirdLife International 2004. Oenanthe xanthoprymna. More

The name Red-rumped Wheatear can also refer to the Kurdistan Wheatear (O. xanthoprymna). Red-rumped Wheatear Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3. More

For the purposes of our bird news services, Red-rumped Wheatear is classed as ungraded: species which are unlikely to appear as wild birds in Britain or Ireland (Note that rarity levels are currently applied nationally and may not reflect local variations in abundance. More

Male Red-rumped Wheatear4 viewsPhotographed near Boumalene, Marocco on 19/03/09 Red-rumped_Wheatear_0465. More

Red-rumped Wheatear (common within 8 km of Boumalne) Desert Wheatear (common within 8 km of Boumalne) Barn Swallow Around one and a half hours before dusk, from within eight kilometres of Boumalne du Dad More

Order : Passeriformes
Family : Muscicapidae
Genus : Oenanthe
Species : moesta
Authority : (Lichtenstein, 1823)