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Desert Wheatear

Oenanthe deserti

724Records since 2000
NovemberPeak month
29Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan65
Feb9
Mar25
Apr1
May0
Jun38
Jul0
Aug1
Sep0
Oct166
Nov326
Dec93

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England146
2Kent England64
3Cambridgeshire England40
4Dorset England40
5North Yorkshire England37
6Bath and North East Somerset England37
7Devon England29
8East Riding of Yorkshire England28
9Essex England22
10Lincolnshire England22
11Suffolk England13
12Worcestershire England9
13Cornwall England8
14Aberdeenshire Scotland8
15Shetland Islands —6
683 England21 Scotland19 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 29 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
724
Peak month
November
Counties with records
29
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Oenanthe deserti
Group
Birds
Most recorded in
Norfolk, Kent
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Muscicapidae
Genus
Oenanthe
Name with authority
Oenanthe deserti (Temminck, 1825)
Described
1825
Contributing datasets
3

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q769934 · GBIF 5231244