ML704416 IBC 1008403
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Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Flying
Media notes
A bird in flight, seen from above, in Tassili n'Ajjer near Djanet. Published in HBW Volume 10 on page 542. Original HBW caption: Wheatears are stocky mid-sized terrestrial chats with a slender black bill and stout black legs. Some, like the Desert Wheatear, are predominantly sandy in colour with darker wings or masks, while others, such as the Whitecrowned Wheatear, are more dramatically pied, but almost all are characterized by a conspicuous patch of white on the rump and tail-sides; indeed this “white arse” gives rise, in refined form, to their English name. Most of the 21 species of Oenanthe live in open, rocky or arid landscapes, and none has much patience with trees. A recurrent theme in the genus is that of polymorphism, wherein different phenotypes regularly interbreed, producing offspring that match one morph or another, rather than intermediate hybrids. In some cases breeding is more or less assortative, and it is difficult to judge whether each particular phenotype is a morph, a subspecies, or indeed an incipient species. IBC scientific name: Oenanthe leucopyga leucopyga. Elevation: 1536 m. Date added to IBC: June 21, 2016.
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Technical information
- Dimensions
- 1800 pixels x 1361 pixels
Archival information
- Cataloged
- 30 Jan 2020 - Matthew D. Medler
- Digitized
- 30 Jan 2020 - Matthew D. Medler