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Isabelline Wheatear
Oenanthe isabellina · Family Muscicapidae
Oenanthe isabellina
Family Muscicapidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Muscicapidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 127,336
- Countries and territories with records
- 113
About this species
This species has 127,336 occurrence records from 113 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Israel (14.4%), the United Arab Emirates (10.7%), Türkiye (9.6%), India (9.2%) and Kenya (4.9%); together they account for 48.8% of the total. In Israel, this species accounts for 0.28% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Oenanthe isabellina combines the genus name Oenanthe with the species epithet isabellina. The Warbla app catalog lists 30 species of the genus Oenanthe; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Oenanthe oenanthe, Oenanthe familiaris and Oenanthe hispanica.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 316 species of the family Muscicapidae. This species ranks 30th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Erithacus rubecula. Its record count is close to the family average (117,032). The family Muscicapidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.