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Where does the Desert Wheatear live?

Oenanthe deserti has 84,689 records in 104 countries and territories, from 1852 to 2026. Most records come from India.

Desert Wheatear
Desert Wheatear — Shantanu Kuveskar / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesMuscicapidaeOenanthe

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
India 23,048
United Arab Emirates 11,073
Morocco 8,932
Oman 8,062
Israel 5,486
Netherlands 3,911
Sweden 3,076
Kuwait 2,714
Mongolia 2,032
Saudi Arabia 1,183
United Kingdom 1,106
Iran 1,025
China 930
Belgium 871
Kazakhstan 838
Norway 826
Egypt 754
Qatar 617
France 598
Spain 594
Western Sahara 539
Denmark 504
Russia 462
Tunisia 362
Jordan 325
Germany 323
Taiwan 295
Uzbekistan 274
Iraq 265
Italy 231
Pakistan 217
Yemen 207
Finland 206
Türkiye 167
Greece 148
Poland 148
Algeria 146
Tajikistan 142
Cyprus 135
Bahrain 134

Showing the top 40 of 104 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.