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Desert Wheatear

Desert Wheatear - Adult male

Photographer

» Ruben Barone Tosco

Location

» Los Rodeos (La Laguna), Tenerife

Country image taken

» Canary Islands

Date

» February, 2020

Equipment

» Pentax K-m with zoom Tamron 70-300 mm

Bird Species

»Oenanthe deserti - Desert Wheatear

Bird Species (French)

»Traquet du désert

Bird Family

»Muscicapidae - Chats, Flycatchers, Robins, Wheatears, Akalats, Rock Thrushes, Palm Thrushes,Redstarts

Bird Group

»Passeriformes Flycatchers, Starlings, Sunbirds, Swallows, Warblers, Weavers etc

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» There were two males in the same area belonging to the subspecies O. deserti homochroa. The arrival of these and many other birds was linked to a storm with strong winds from the East and dense dust from Sahara desert. Desert Wheatear is a vagrant to the Canary Islands, and usually the species arrives with episodes of sandy storms from nearby NW Africa.

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