Like several other Old World mystery birds that we've recently seen, this taxon was recently removed from the thrush family and placed into the Old World flycatcher & chat family Male Schalow's ...

Even a single gene, reshuffled or regulated in new ways, can fuel repeated bursts of evolutionary innovation, according to a recent study of wheatear birds. A study was recently published in the ...

This demystified Mystery Bird includes a charming essay written by the photographer about how this bird got its strange name Northern Wheatear, Oenanthe oenanthe, also known simply as the Wheatear, ...

Lumbini, March 30 -- three years after its first recorded appearance in Nepal, northern wheatear, a rare migratory bird species, has been sighted again. The discovery comes exactly 24 days after the ...

A surprise Northern Wheatear: Ever heard of a wheatear? If you haven’t, here’s a hint - it’s a bird. Does that help? Earlier in the month I wrote a column about spotting an American White Pelican ...

When birders go out of their way to see a bird I don’t think “cuteness” is the motivating factor. Most often when birders gather in one spot it’s to see a rare bird and that is the case with the ...

Panaji: In a rare sighting that thrilled local birders, a juvenile pied wheatear (oenanthe pleschanka) was spotted earlier this month at the Verna industrial estate. The small migratory songbird, less ...

The isabelline wheatear was spotted in Colyford Common, part of Seaton Wetlands in Devon, on January 1 - and stuck around ever since. Experts say it has ‘overwintered’ in the UK. Recommended Church ...

The Wheatear, in Maltese Kuda, is another common spring visitor that is rather common from March to May and from August to November. It is occasionally recorded in winter and in June. There are ...

In what could be the first-ever sighting of a particular migratory bird species in the Nilgiris, a Kotagiri-based bird watcher has spotted the Isabelline wheatear while monitoring winter avian ...