White-crowned Wheatear
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{{Taxobox
| name = White-crowned Wheatear
| status = LC
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]]
| classis = [[bird|Aves]]
| ordo = [[Passeriformes]]
| familia = [[Muscicapidae]]
| genus = ''[[Wheatear|Oenanthe]]''
| species = '''''O. leucopyga'''''
| binomial = ''Oenanthe leucopyga''
| binomial_authority = ([[Christian Ludwig Brehm|Brehm]], 1855)
}}
The '''White-crowned Wheatear''', or '''White-crowned Black Wheatear''', ''Oenanthe leucopyga'', is a [[wheatear]], a small [[passerine]] [[bird]] that was formerly classed as a member of the [[Thrush (bird)|Thrush]] family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an [[Old World flycatcher]], Muscicapidae.
This large 17-18 cm long wheatear breeds in stony deserts from the [[Sahara]] and [[Arabian Peninsula|Arabia]] across to [[Iraq]]. It is largely resident but as occurred as a rare vagrant to western [[Europe]] as far away as [[Great Britain]]. It nests in crevices in rocks or walls laying 3-5 eggs.
Although most wheatear species have distinctive male and female plumages, adults of both sexes of this species are black except for a white rump and mainly white tail. Full adults have a white crown, not shown by young birds.
The similar [[Black Wheatear]], ''Oenanthe leucura'', also breeds in the western part of the White-crowned Wheatear's range, but the latter has a black inverted '''T''' on its white tail, whereas White-crowned has only a black centre to its tail. The Black Wheatear never has a white crown.
This species mainly eats insects. This wheatear has a loud song, more varied than most of its relatives and often including mimicry.
[[Image:White crowned wheatear.jpg|frame|none|White-crowned Wheatear]]
==References==
* {{IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2004|id=51811|title=Oenanthe leucopyga|downloaded=12 May 2006}} Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
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