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Red-tailed Wheatear (1 Viewer)

Clibanarii

Clibanarii

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Hello Birders,

I'm pretty sure this is a Red-tailed Wheatear. Can you please confirm.

Taken near Muscat Oman, end of Nov.

Thanks :)
 

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Looks like Oenanthe chrysopygia. I always get confused with the English name because of the recent split but I think it's Red tailed Wheatear. Anyway Desert Wheatear has no red so can't see how this can be one. The tail pattern is hard to see unless the tail is spread open
 
You can see some red in the tail in pic 4. Looks good for Red tailed to me but not sure which one as I've no books with me.
 
SJC said:
Looks like Oenanthe chrysopygia. I always get confused with the English name because of the recent split but I think it's Red tailed Wheatear.
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Red-tailed Wheatear = Oenanthe xanthoprymna (recently renamed Kurdish Wheatear in some books), so if this is Oenanthe chrysopygia, it isn't Red-tailed (Oenanthe chrysopygia = Persian Wheatear).
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Anyway Desert Wheatear has no red so can't see how this can be one. The tail pattern is hard to see unless the tail is spread open
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I don't see any red!
 
Here is the species i was referring to, according to wikepedia Red-tailed Wheatear
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-tailed_wheatear

The name has changed a bunch of times. I used to know it as Persian but seems to have changed since.

The red in the tail is sometimes not that obvious. I've seen hundreds of Desert Wheatear and never saw one with rusty flanks etc.
 
It depends what taxonomy you follow. I'm Clements the two (xanthoprymna and chrysopygia) are just one species called Red-tailed. In Wikipedia they are split and chrysopygia is called Red-tailed (as well as Persian and another couple of names). Xanthoprymna is called Kurdish. Either way, call it what you prefer, it looks like a chrysopygia.
 
Oenanthe chrysopygia
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is called
Afghan Wheatear (Avibase taxonomic concepts)
Red-tailed Wheatear (Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 8), IOC World Bird Names, up to and including version 4.02, Birdlife checklist up to and including version 07)
Rusty-tailed Wheatear (Handbook of the Birds of the World)
Not split by Clements, so in ebird as a group is called Red-tailed Wheatear (Red-tailed)

I see no where where this species is called "Persian" by a taxonomic authority (data from http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=E749750AA9A121CC)

Niels
 
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