Field Guide for Greenlandic Birds


Northern Wheatear (Greenland Wheatear)

https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Northern_Wheatear

Scientific:
Oenanthe oenanthe

Order:
Passeriformes
Family:
Muscicapidae
Genus:
Oenanthe

English: Black-throated Wheatear, Greenland Wheatear, Common Wheatear, European Wheatear, Seebohm’s Wheatear, Wheatear

Danish: Stenpikker

Greenlandic: Kussak, Sakseriak

Length: 14.5 – 15.5 cm

Weight: 18 – 33 g

Karl-Birger Strann, XC401963. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/401963.


References:

Avibase The World Bird Database (2018).Oenanthe oenanthe. Found at https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=D857C0C7ADE44FC4

BirdLife International (2018) Species factsheet: Oenanthe oenanthe.

BirdGuides – Northern wheatear (February, 2011)
http://www.birdguides.com/species/species.asp?sp=130156

Kren, J. and A. C. Zoerb. 1997. Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (A. F. Poole and F. B. Gill, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bna.316

Kren, J.; Zoerb, A. C. 1997. Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe. In: Poole, A.; Gill, F. (ed.), The Birds of North America, pp. 1-24. The Academy of Natural Sciences, & The American Ornithologists’ Union, Philadelphia, PA, & Washington, DC.

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