Family Old World Flycatchers and Chats (Muscicapidae)
Least Concern
Heuglin's Wheatear (Oenanthe heuglinii)
Taxonomy
French: Traquet de Heuglin German: Heuglinsteinschmätzer Spanish: Collalba de Heuglin
Distribution:
S Mauritania, Mali and NE Guinea E to S Sudan, South Sudan, W Ethiopia (Gambela National Park), NE Uganda and NW Kenya. Recently recorded breeding in SE Senegal (Dande, in Kédougou Region#R).
Descriptive notes
13–14 cm; 17–23 g. Resembles O. frenata, but smaller, with narrower white supercilium, and buffier breast (dull fulvous) indistinctly demarcated from... read more
Voice
Song, sometimes on moonlit nights, a series of extended variable phrases, each 30–60 seconds... read more
Habitat
Dry, bare or short-grass areas in flat stony ground or on boulder-strewn hillsides, degraded... read more
Food and feeding
Feeds on insects. Occurs in small groups outside breeding season. Rather shy.
Breeding
Dec–Apr (late dry season) in Nigeria and Cameroon and Mar in Sudan; sometimes two broods. Nest a cup of coarse dry grass lined with... read more
Movements
Apparently sedentary in Ethiopia, but at least partial migrant elsewhere. At start of rains in Apr/... read more
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened (Least Concern). Uncommon in W Eritrea and W highlands of Ethiopia; generally frequent to common across broad sub-Saharan range, although abundance... read more
See O. bottae. Proposed race campicolina (Cameroon) synonymized. Monotypic.