Featured Article: Pied Wheatear
Photo by Oleg Chernyshov
Identification
Males look strikingly black-and-white, with white undertail coverts, no white in the wing in flight, an anchor-shaped tail pattern (frequently looking broken), and often, a buff or yellowish flush on the upper breast.
Distribution
Breeds in dry, stony areas in the far east of Europe from the Black Sea coasts in the northeast of Bulgaria through eastern Romania, Moldova, southern Ukraine and southernmost Russia, and across southwest and central Asia from Kazakhstan and easternmost Turkey east to northern China.
