Hooded Wheatear (Oenanthe monacha)
About the Hooded Wheatear
The hooded wheatear (Oenanthe monacha) is a wheatear, a small insectivorous passerine 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. This species is placed in the genus Oenanthe that was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816. The generic name, Oenanthe, is also the name of a plant genus, the water dropworts, and is derived from the Greek ainos "wine" and anthos "flower", from the wine-like scent of the flowers. In the case of the wheatear, it refers to the northern wheatears' return to Greece in the spring at the time that the grapevines blossom. The specific monacha is from late latin "monachus", monk; meaning hooded.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 4 recordings for this species: 4 CC BY-NC-SA. 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.