Basalt Wheatear (Oenanthe warriae)
About the Basalt Wheatear
The mourning wheatear (Oenanthe lugens) is a bird, one of 14 species of wheatear found in northern Africa and the Middle East. It is a small passerine in a group formerly classed as members of the thrush family Turdidae, but now more generally considered to be part of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. The mourning wheatear was formally described in 1823 as Saxicola lugens by the German naturalist Hinrich Lichtenstein based on a specimen collected in Nubia. The specific epithet is from Latin lugens, lugentis meaning "mourning". The mourning wheatear is now one of around thirty wheatears placed in the genus Oenanthe that was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot. Four 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 1 recording for this species: 1 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 Israel 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.