Isabelline Wheatear
Photo: Lip Kee Yap · CC BY-SA 2.0

Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies

Isabelline Wheatear

Oenanthe isabellina

LCLeast Concern
Family
Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies (Muscicapidae)
Order
Passeriformes

Overview

The isabelline wheatear (Oenanthe isabellina) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher in the family Muscicapidae. It is a migratory insectivorous bird. Its habitat is steppe and open countryside and it breeds in southern Russia and Central Asia to northern Pakistan, wintering in Africa and northwestern India. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.

Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Range and habitat

Breeds south-central Eurasia; winters to northeastern Africa, Arabia, and India.

Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.

Sources and further reading

Last updated September 29, 2026.