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GrasslandCavity nestSmall · 20 g
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It is 13-14 centimetres long. The adult has dark grey-brown upperparts, a black mask and a white stripe above the eye. The breast is orange-buff shading into the paler throat and belly. The tail is black apart from white sides to the basal half. The uppertail-coverts and undertail-coverts are white and the underwing-coverts are buff-pink. Voice: The song is long, complex and includes imitations and the call is a harsh chack.
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When to see the Heuglin's Wheatear
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Heuglin's Wheatear
The map shades 6 countries with regular records, and 3 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 Niger, Central African Republic, Ethiopia.
About the Heuglin's Wheatear
Heuglin's wheatear is a small passerine bird in the wheatear genus Oenanthe.
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Easily confused with
Sombre Rock ChatOenanthe dubiaThe sombre rock chat is a species of passerine bird in the family Muscicapidae.
Somali WheatearOenanthe phillipsiThe Somali wheatear is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.
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.
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