PLEASE! If you see any mistakes, I'm 100% sure that I have wrongly identified some birds.
So please let me know on my guestbook at the bottom of the page
Hume's Wheatear (Oenanthe albonigra) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Afghanistan, Bahrain, India, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
The name commemorates the British naturalist Allan Octavian Hume, who worked in India.
Range map from www.oiseaux.net - Ornithological Portal Oiseaux.net
www.oiseaux.net is one of those MUST visit pages if you're in to bird watching. You can find just about everything there
Song - given from wires by a single bird; another nearby. Song in this recording sounds a little more definitely structured, cheery and repetitive than many individuals of this species do. Hume's Wheatears (which are resident at this site) were, on this visit, seen to chase newly arrived Red-tailed Wheatears several times.