Desert Wheatear

Key Facts

Family: Muscicapidae

Biometrics:

Length: 14.5 to 15 cm, Weight: 15 to 34 g
Range:
North Africa to central Asia, winter in northeastern Africa across the Middle East to Pakistan and India and breed in the Sahara and the northern Arabian peninsula
Habitat:
Up to 3500 meters, in deserts, barren open countryside, steppes, semi-arid plains, saltpans, dried up river beds and sandy, stony and rocky wasteland