Desert Wheatear (Oenanthe deserti) - HBW 10, p. 803 French:
Traquet du désert Spanish: Collalba Desértica Taxonomy: Saxicola
deserti Temminck, 1825, Egypt. Several races in C of range
sometimes discriminated (salina and atrogularis) but
distinctions very slight, and better treated as synonyms of
nominate. Boundaries of races not well established; details
listed below provisional. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution: - homochroa (Tristram, 1859) - N
Africa (including once Mauritania) E to NW Egypt; non-breeding
Sahara and N Sahel (Mauritania E to Chad). - deserti (Temminck,
1825) - NE Egypt and Levant E, discontinuously, to Azerbaijan
(probably Armenia), S Kazakhstan, Afghanistan and Mongolia; non-
breeding NE Africa (including Socotra I) and SW Asia. -
oreophila (Oberholser, 1900) - Kashmir E to Nepal, Pamir,
Tibetan Plateau and W China (S Xinjiang); non-breeding Arabia,
SW Asia and NW & C India. - Least Concern Enlarge map VideosSee
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