The basalt wheatear (''Oenanthe warriae'') is a bird, a species of wheatear found in Jordan and

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

. It is a small passerine in a group formerly classed as members of the thrush family Turdidae, but now more generally considered to be part of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. The basalt wheatear (''O. warriae'') and

Maghreb wheatear The Maghreb wheatear (''Oenanthe halophila'') is a bird, a species of wheatear found in northern Africa. It is a small passerine in a group formerly classed as members of the thrush family Turdidae, but now more generally considered to be part of ...

(''O. halophila'') were formerly considered subspecies of the

mourning wheatear The mourning wheatear (''Oenanthe lugens'') is a bird, one of 14 species of wheatear found in northern Africa and the Middle East. It is a small passerine in a group formerly classed as members of the thrush family Turdidae, but now more generall ...

, but were split as distinct species by the IOC in 2021.

References

External links

Species page on Israeli birds website
{{Taxonbar, from1=Q107511711, from2=Q27632818 Wheatears Birds of the Middle East Birds described in 2011