{"id":1482102,"date":"2017-05-09T19:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=1482102"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:18:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:18:45","slug":"a-rarity-the-black-wheatear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/a-rarity-the-black-wheatear\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rarity : The Black Wheatear"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was thankful for the opportunity to photograph this rare species and moreover both sexes, but what a pity to speak about it in the past tense in France: the last pair was seen in the Pyrenees in 1996.<\/p>\n

The 2 birds are black (female dark brown) and the tail has a white strip. It is the largest (all relative!) stonechat in the Iberian Peninsula. Quite territorial, this insectivorous passerine lives in hilly, rocky and steep areas (I haven’t forgotten the steep climb loaded with my equipment, LOL!!)<\/p>\n

It can imitate the songs of other birds as well as that of the Bee-eaters which were also nesting nearby.<\/p>\n

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Oenanthe leucura – Muscicapidae, Catalonia, Spain, – Nikon D500 + 800 mm<\/p>\n

Le Traquet rieur: J’ai eu beaucoup de chance de pouvoir photographier cette esp\u00e8ce rare et en plus les 2 sexes, mais quel dommage de parler de ce petit passereau au pass\u00e9 en France: la derni\u00e8re paire a \u00e9t\u00e9 vue dans les Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es en… 1996.<\/p>\n

Les 2 oiseaux sont noirs (ou marron tr\u00e8s fonc\u00e9 pour la femelle) et la queue pr\u00e9sente une bande blanche. C’est le plus grand traquet (relativisons, ils ne sont pas bien grands!) dans la p\u00e9ninsule ib\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n

Tr\u00e8s territorial, cet insectivore fr\u00e9quente les zones montagneuses, rocheuses et escarp\u00e9es (oui \u00e7a j’ai bien not\u00e9: la grimpette avec mon matos, j’ai pas oubli\u00e9!! MDR!!) et tr\u00e8s peu v\u00e9g\u00e9talis\u00e9es par des plantes s\u00e8ches de guarrigue.<\/p>\n

Il est capable d’imiter le chant d’autres oiseaux comme celui des gu\u00eapiers qui nichaient \u00e9galement \u00e0 proximit\u00e9.<\/p>\n

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Oenanthe leucura – Muscicapidae, Catalonia, Spain, – Nikon D500 + 800 mm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Oenanthe leucura – Muscicapidae, Catalonia, Spain, – Nikon D500 + 800 mm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Oenanthe leucura – Muscicapidae, Catalonia, Spain, – Nikon D500 + 800 mm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Oenanthe leucura – Muscicapidae, Catalonia, Spain, – Nikon D500 + 800 mm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Oenanthe leucura – Muscicapidae, Catalonia, Spain, – Nikon D500 + 800 mm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The female, slightly browner: Madame, plus teint\u00e9e de marron:<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I was thankful for the opportunity to photograph this rare species and moreover both sexes, but what a pity to speak about it in the past tense in France: the last pair was seen in the Pyrenees in 1996. The 2 birds are black (female dark brown) and the tail has a white strip. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2148679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1886,8778,2571,8779,189],"class_list":["post-1482102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-bird","tag-black-wheatear","tag-noushka","tag-oenanthe-leucura","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}