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Wheatear Id / Turkey (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Shahrzad
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lou salomon
the birdonist
where in turkey?
looks like a female eastern black-eared wheatear to me. but always hard to exclude a female pied, that's why i asked about the exact location.
looks like a female eastern black-eared wheatear to me. but always hard to exclude a female pied, that's why i asked about the exact location.
Shahrzad
Well-known member
That's right , it's difficult to distinguish between wheatear females.
the photo belong to East of Turkey , Van. (38.456624, 43.325004)
lou salomon
the birdonist
agree, on the 2nd pic, pretty clear a O.h.melanoleuca.
MJB
Well-known member
Or elevated to O. melanoleuca, according to Schweizer et al 2019 & Schweizer & Burri 2019...
MJB
Schweizer, M, V Warmuth, NA Kakhki, M Aliabadian, M Förschler, H Shirihai, A Suh and R Burri. 2019. Parallel plumage color evolution and introgressive hybridization in wheatears. J. Evol. Biol. 32: 100-110. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13401
Schweizer, M and R Burri. 2019. Trends in systematics: New insights in taxonomy of wheatears. Dutch Birding 41(2): 115-120
