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Where does the Black Wheatear live?

Oenanthe leucura has 47,789 records in 54 countries and territories, from 1840 to 2026. Most records come from Spain.

Black Wheatear
Black Wheatear — El Golli Mohamed / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesMuscicapidaeOenanthe

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. 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
Spain 32,308
Morocco 8,382
Portugal 3,020
Tunisia 665
Algeria 497
Western Sahara 446
France 320
Sweden 200
Norway 159
Finland 151
Germany 150
Italy 147
United Kingdom 145
Russia 141
Poland 127
Greece 125
Ukraine 99
Iceland 54
Romania 50
Denmark 43
Bulgaria 39
Hungary 39
Ireland 39
Belarus 37
Croatia 36
Austria 35
Latvia 33
Czechia 29
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 29
Lithuania 27
Libya 25
Estonia 23
Serbia 23
Bosnia & Herzegovina 19
Netherlands 18
Slovakia 18
Switzerland 15
Moldova 13
Belgium 12
Türkiye 10

Showing the top 40 of 54 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.