Isabelline Wheatear

Scientific name: Oenanthe isabellina
Mongolian name: Бүжимч чогчиго
Order: Passeriformes
Bird family: Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers)
Conservation status: LC

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Key information

The isabelline wheatear (Oenanthe isabellina) is a small passerine bird which habitat is steppe and open countryside and it breeds in southern Russia and central Asia to northern Pakistan, wintering in Africa and northwestern India.

Length : 16–17 cm

Weight : 21–39 g

Population : 20,000,000-89,999,999 individuals

Habitat: mostly found in open country, barren tracts of land, arid regions, steppes, high plateaux and on the lower slopes of hills.

Diet: Its diet includes ants, grasshoppers, moths, flies, mites, spiders and insect larvae, and it sometimes eats seeds as well.

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