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[[Image:Isabelline_Wheatear.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Emil Enchev]]
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[[Image:Isabelline_Wheatear.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Emil Enchev <br/>Bulgaria ]]
 
==Identification==
 
==Identification==
Location:  Bulgaria
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15-16.5 cm in length (6.5 inches), tawny in colour, black on its tail. The axillaries and underwing coverts are white. Sexes are similar.
 
 
The Isabelline Wheatear, Oenanthe isabellina, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the Thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It is like a female Northern Wheatear but it is larger at 15-16.5 cm in length (6.5 inches), more upright and more tawny in colour, and has more black on its tail. The axillaries and underwing coverts are white, whereas in the commoner bird they are mottled with grey. Sexes are similar.
 
 
==Distribution==
 
==Distribution==
It breeds in southern Russia and central Asia to Northern Pakistan, wintering in Africa and India.
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Southern [[Russia]] and central [[Asia]] to Northern [[Pakistan]], wintering in [[Africa]] and [[India]].
  
 
==Taxonomy==
 
==Taxonomy==
 
==Habitat==
 
==Habitat==
 
==Behaviour==
 
==Behaviour==
It is a migratory insectivorous bird.
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Diet includes insects.
It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
 
*[http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showgallery.php?mcats=all&what=allfields&si=Oenanthe+isabellina+ View more images of Isabelline Wheatear in the gallery]
 
*[http://www.birdforum.net/pp_gallery/showgallery.php?mcats=all&what=allfields&si=Oenanthe+isabellina+ View more images of Isabelline Wheatear in the gallery]
 
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Revision as of 17:21, 3 October 2007


Oenanthe isabellina
Photo by Emil Enchev
Bulgaria

Identification

15-16.5 cm in length (6.5 inches), tawny in colour, black on its tail. The axillaries and underwing coverts are white. Sexes are similar.

Distribution

Southern Russia and central Asia to Northern Pakistan, wintering in Africa and India.

Taxonomy

Habitat

Behaviour

Diet includes insects.

External Links

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