Oenanthe lugens
In 3 days ~10%
The mourning wheatear (Oenanthe lugens) is a bird, one of 14 species of wheatear found in northern Africa and the Middle East. It is a small passerine in a group formerly classed as members of the thrush family Turdidae, but now more generally considered to be part of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.
The mourning wheatear was formally described in 1823 as Saxicola lugens by the German naturalist Hinrich Lichtenstein based on a specimen collected in Nubia. The specific epithet is from Latin lugens, lugentis meaning "mourning". The mourning wheatear is now one of around thirty wheatears placed in the genus Oenanthe that was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot.
Four subspecies are recognised. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Cairo | 🇪🇬 Egypt |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Mourning Wheatear sighting in Cairo on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 76th most-seen of the 92 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Mourning Wheatear in Cairo on a given day, against under 5% in April to February, the lowest months.
Only Cairo, in our data
Cairo is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Mourning Wheatear sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Mourning Wheatear is recorded against all the birds logged in Cairo (7 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
