The northern wheatear is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family and the most widespread member of the wheatear genus Oenanthe across Europe and North and Central Asia. A migratory, insectivorous species, it breeds in open stony country across the Palearctic with additional footholds in northeastern and northwestern Canada, Greenland and Alaska, nesting in rock crevices and rabbit burrows, and nearly all birds winter in Africa. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Classification
System (Realm) Living or Extinct Scientific Name Conservation Status Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Northern wheatear (Wikidata)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Belgium, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Denmark, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Luxembourg, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: North America, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Norway, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Russia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Spain, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Sweden, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Ukraine, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: United States, found in there.
Sources
1. Northern wheatear (Wikipedia)
Diet (stated plainly in the entity own recorded description)
A migratory, insectivorous species, it breeds in open stony country across the Palearctic with additional footholds in northeastern and northwestern Canada, Greenland and Alaska, nesting in rock crevices and rabbit burrows, and nearly all birds winter in Africa.
Speciesbox infobox, conservation status parameter
status = LC
View the Source2. GBIF Species API
3. Northern wheatear (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikidata Q26420 (P225 taxon name)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
- Child Taxon Of: Muscicapidae, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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