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Alternative name: Eastern Pied Wheatear

Photo by Seyed Babak Mus
Minab town, Iran, February 2005

Identification

15cm

A thread discussing identification of this species from Hume's Wheatear is found here.

This species is often considered monotypic ^[1], but some sources have up to three subspecies listed, including capistrata and opistholeuca.

Deserts, cultivated areas, woodland, grassland and shrubland.

Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
Avibase
BF Member observations

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Variable Wheatear. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 5 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Variable_Wheatear

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 '''Asia''': [[Turkestan]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Uzbekistan]], [[Turkmenistan]], [[Tajikistan]], [[Afghanistan]], [[China]], [[Tibet]], [[Nepal]], [[Pakistan]], northern [[India]]
 ==Taxonomy==
-This species is often considered [[Dictionary_M-S#M|monotypic]] <sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>, but some sources have up to three subspecies listed, including ''capistrata'' and ''opistholeuca''.
+This species is often considered [[Dictionary_M-O#M|monotypic]] <sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup>, but some sources have up to three subspecies listed, including ''capistrata'' and ''opistholeuca''.
 ==Habitat==
 Deserts, cultivated areas, woodland, grassland and shrubland.