Variable Wheatear
Oenanthe picata
Well-named; black-and-white pattern of the males is striking but varies considerably. Brownish female is not as noticeably variable, but also can be considerably darker or lighter-colored. Note black-and-white tail in all plumages. Inhabits arid and barren foothills, plateaus, valleys, and mountains, where it forages from a perch and on the ground.
识别特征
The variable wheatear is a bird of arid and semi-arid region, and is locally abundant in barren rocky areas, sand dunes with scrub vegetation, cultivation, ravines, outside villages and nomadic encampments.<p>It is polymorphic and has three distinct morphs.<p>The geographical dominance of the three types of females does not exactly correspond to the dominances of the three color phases of the males, but in their wintering grounds there is some corresponding separation.
分类信息
- 学名
- Oenanthe picata
- 命名信息
- (Blyth, 1847)
- 目
- Passeriformes
- 科
- Muscicapidae
- 属
- Oenanthe
分布与栖息地
This species is found in northeast and southeast Iran and Turkmenistan eastern to western Tien Shan, Pamirs, and northern and western Pakistan; non-breeding in southwest Asia. Common and generally distributed in winter in Pakistan and northwestern India southeast to Delhi, central Madhya Pradesh and northern Maharashtra (Khandesh). Arrives on breeding grounds in March (Baluchistan) or mid April (Chitral), remains till September. May be seen in winter quarters from the beginning of August (Karachi dist) till the end of March.<p>In winter frequents stony semi-desert, and desert with sparsely scrubbed sand dunes, cultivation, ravines, outskirts of villages and nomadic encampments, cattle corrals, etc.; usually from almost sea level to c. 1200 m, but has been observed also at 2700 m in deep snow.
- 繁殖区
- PAL : Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan to s Iran and s Pakistan
- 非繁殖区
- to wc India and Oman
- 迁徙
- Complete migrants
保护状况
- 种群趋势
- stable
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