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Bird Sightings : : Hebrides : Wheatear

Wheatear

(Northern Wheatear)

Oenanthe oenanthe

Gaelic: Brù-gheal

Photography © Kim Park
Uig - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
21st April, 2006

 

Our Wheatear photographs

Wheatear	Wheatear pair	Wheatear	Wheatear Fledgling	Wheatear juvenile	Wheatear female autumn	Wheatear

 

• Wheatear
• Oenanthe oenanthe
• Gaelic: Brù-gheal
• WI: Common migrant breeder (1000 -10,000 pairs)

 

 

Wheatears spend winter south of the Sahara (West Africa). The first migrants will probably leave Africa in January, males setting off a week or two before the females.

 

Wheatear records in the Western Isles

Common migrant breeder (1000 -10,000 pairs)

Oenanthe oenanthe leucorrhoa the Greenland Wheatear, is probably a fairly common passage visitor (occurs in small numbers)

Source: Outer Hebrides Bird Report (2001)

On the chart below the darker the shade of blue the more abundant the Wheatear is during a month or the more likely you are to see it.

J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D

(Source: Outer Hebrides Birds Checklist)

 

 

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www.bigbigskies.co.uk

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