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The breeding male has the forehead, crown, and mantle white or nearly white with a buff tinge, and the wings blacker than those of the northern wheatear. The underparts are white tinged with buff. The back, upper tail coverts and most of the tail are white. A black mask extends from the ear coverts to the bill. The throat can be either black or white. In autumn and winter the head and mantle are distinctly buff, as are the underparts (including the throat on non-black-throated individuals), but the buff varies in intensity.
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When to see the Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
The map shades 39 countries with regular records, and 18 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 United Kingdom, France, Finland, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Chad, Kenya, Norway, Yemen, Germany, Hungary, Morocco, Mali, Turkmenistan, Denmark, Uzbekistan.
About the Eastern Black-eared Wheatear
The eastern black-eared wheatear is a wheatear, a small migratory passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher. It was formerly considered conspecific with the western black-eared wheatear.
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Easily confused with
Rusty-breasted WheatearOenanthe frenataThe rusty-breasted wheatear is a species of bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae that is native to the Ethiopian Highlands.
Atlas WheatearOenanthe seebohmiAdult male Atlas wheatears in breeding are very distinctive when compared to northern wheatear, having a black throat, face, lores and ear coverts, sometimes extending to the uppermost part of the breast, occasionally with some buff mixed in.
Somali WheatearOenanthe phillipsiThe Somali wheatear is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.
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