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Copyright: TOMESCU Cezar Valentin (tomcezar)
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| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2007-06-24 |
| Categories: Birds |
| Camera: Canon 350 D, Canon EF 80-200 1:4.5-5.6 |
| Exposure: f/8, 1/1000 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-02-05 3:01 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Oenanthe oenanthe - The Northern Wheatear is larger than the European Robin at 14½–16 cm length. Both sexes have a white rump and tail, with a black inverted T-pattern at the end of the tail.
The summer male has grey upperparts, buff throat and black wings and face mask. In autumn it resembles the female apart from the black wings. The female is pale brown above and buff below with darker brown wings. The male has a whistling, crackly song. Its call is a typical chat chack noise.
This species was first described by Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758 as Motacilla oenanthe.[2]
Its English name has nothing to do with wheat or ears, but is a bowdlerised form of white-arse, which refers to its prominent white rump.
The Northern Wheatear is a migratory insectivorous species breeding in open stony country in Europe and Asia with a foothold in eastern Canada and Greenland. It nests in rock crevices and rabbit burrows. All birds winter in Africa, which makes the large, bright Greenland race leucorhea one of the most impressive long-distance migrants.
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Wheatear |
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