Rusty-breasted Wheatear

When to see the Rusty-breasted Wheatear

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

Where to see the Rusty-breasted Wheatear

The map shades 1 country 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 Djibouti.

About the Rusty-breasted Wheatear

The 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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Easily confused with

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. Eastern Black-eared WheatearOenanthe melanoleucaThe 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. Somali WheatearOenanthe phillipsiThe Somali wheatear is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae.