Burung kicau (Songbirds)
Isabelline Wheatear
Oenanthe isabellina
- langka
- 55 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Sandy-pale steppe specialist with a long-legged stance. Delivers from the dry edge of nowhere.
- Populasi
- Very large and stable; roughly 26 million to 378 million individuals across an extensive breeding+wintering range of ~11.7 million km²
- Habitat
- Open steppe, semi-desert, barren tracts, arid stony/sandy plains and high plateaux with sparse low vegetation on breeding grounds; similar semi-arid scrubland with sparse cover in winter quarters
- Fakta menarik
- The Isabelline Wheatear nests underground in abandoned burrows dug by pikas, ground squirrels, or mole rats rather than excavating its own, and its name traces to Neo-Latin "isabellinus" (greyish-yellow/parchment color), popularly linked to a legendary vow of Isabella I of Castile.
- Sebaran
- Breeds from southern Russia and the Caspian region across Central Asia (incl. Mongolia) to Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, and northern Pakistan; winters mainly in the Sahel/East Africa and northwestern India/Pakistan; a rare vagrant to western Europe
- Makanan
- Primarily insectivorous — ants, grasshoppers, beetles, moths, flies, mites, spiders, and insect larvae picked from the ground — with occasional small seeds
- Ukuran
- 0,16 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,29 m
- Masa hidup
- 2 tahun
