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Northern wheatear

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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
Diet
Insectivore 1
Living or Extinct
Yes 2
Scientific Name
Oenanthe oenanthe 2
Conservation Status
Least Concern 1
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
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2. Northern wheatear (Wikidata)
Wikidata
  • Wikidata Q26420 (P225 taxon name)
  • Statements section, conservation status (P141)
    IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
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