Northern Wheatear
The Northern Wheatear is a small passerine bird and is the most widespread member of the wheatear genus in Europe and Asia.
The plumage of the summer male has grey upperparts, buff throat and black wings and face mask. In autumn it resembles the female apart from the black wings. The female is pale brown above and buff below with darker brown wings. Both sexes have a white rump and tail with a black inverted T-pattern at the end of the tail.
The Northern Wheatear is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in open stony country in Europe and Asia with footholds in north east Canada and Greenland as well as in north west Canada and Alaska. All birds winter in Africa.
Date: 10th September 2010
Location: Laguna de los Pecos, Lago de Sanabria, Castille y Leon, Spain
The plumage of the summer male has grey upperparts, buff throat and black wings and face mask. In autumn it resembles the female apart from the black wings. The female is pale brown above and buff below with darker brown wings. Both sexes have a white rump and tail with a black inverted T-pattern at the end of the tail.
The Northern Wheatear is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in open stony country in Europe and Asia with footholds in north east Canada and Greenland as well as in north west Canada and Alaska. All birds winter in Africa.
Date: 10th September 2010
Location: Laguna de los Pecos, Lago de Sanabria, Castille y Leon, Spain
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Also in: South and north west Spain - September 2010
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