Hume's Wheatear (Oenanthe albonigra)
About the Hume's Wheatear
Hume's wheatear (Oenanthe albonigra) is a species of bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. This black-and-white bird is found in southern Afghanistan, Iran, extreme northeast Iraq, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Hume's wheatear was formally described in 1872 by the British naturalist Allan Octavian Hume from specimens collected on rocky slopes in what is now southern Pakistan. He placed it with the chats in the genus Saxicola and coined the binomial name Saxicola alboniger. Hume's wheatear is now placed with 32 other species in the genus Oenanthe that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Vieillot in 1816. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 12 recordings for this species: 8 CC BY-NC-SA · 4 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in United Arab Emirates in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Desert WheatearOenanthe desertirecording
- Northern WheatearOenanthe oenantherecording
- Pied WheatearOenanthe pleschankarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.