Wheatears are such cracking birds so in celebration of this smart family here is a photo collection of the Wheatears that have featured on this blog over the years.
According to my IOC World List I have seen 20 different species of Wheatear. In Shirihai and Svensson still need a few Western Palearctic ones including Cyprus Wheatear, Persian Wheatear, Basalt Wheatear and in the Greater WP there's Hume's Wheatear, Arabian Wheatear, Blyth's Wheatear and Red-breasted Wheatear.
Spring male Wheatears from today
Male Pied Wheatear, Bulgaria
Male Maghreb Wheatear, Morocco
Female Maghreb Wheatear, Morocco
Adult Mourning Wheatear, Israel . Unlike Maghreb Wheatear (formely lumped with Mourning Wheatear), the sexes do not differ significantly in plumage.
Male Seebohm's Wheatear, Morocco
White-crowned Black Wheatear, Israel
Female Hooded Wheatear, Israel
Isabelline Wheatear, Bulgaria
Female Black-eared Wheatear, Western Sahara
'Greenland Wheatear,' The Azores
Blackstart, Jordan - according to IOC this is a member of the Wheatear family
Female Desert Wheatear, Morocco
Kurdish (Red-tailed) Wheatear, Turkey
Red-rumped Wheatear, Morocco
Finsch's Wheatear, Azerbaijan
Autumn Northern Wheatears, two adults and two first-winters
and another shot of a Spring Northern Wheatear- the original and the best
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