Cyprus Wheatear

When to see the Cyprus Wheatear

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Cyprus Wheatear

The map shades 8 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Syria.

About the Cyprus Wheatear

The Cyprus wheatear or Cyprus pied wheatear is a small, 14–15 cm long passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It was formerly treated as a subspecies (race) of pied wheatear but Sluys and van den Berg (1982) argued that the form deserved full species status, on the basis of differences in biometrics and especially song, and the lack of sexual plumage dimorphism in cypriaca.

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Easily confused with

Hooded WheatearOenanthe monachaThis wheatear has a body length of 15.5–17 cm (6.1–6.7 in), a wingspan of 29–30 cm (11–12 in), and weighs 18–20 grams (0.63–0.71 oz). Hume's WheatearOenanthe albonigraHume's wheatear is a large wheatear with a dark black head and back contrasting sharply with a pure white breast and belly. Abyssinian WheatearOenanthe lugubrisThe Abyssinian wheatear is a dark wheatear which shows sexual dichromatism, with the males being darker than the females.