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| Image details: |
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| Image Description: |
A Wheatear perches with it's beak full |
| Image notes: |
This female stands on a shovel handle before taking food back to the nest. |
| Species in Image: |
Northern Wheatear |
| Date: |
1994 |
| Area: |
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| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc01813 |
| General details: |
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| Common Name |
Northern Wheatear |
| Latin Name |
Oenanthe oenanthe |
| Shetland Name |
Stinkle |
| Latin Group Name |
Passeriformes |
| Latin Family Name |
Turdidae |
| Common Family Name |
Chats and Thrushes |
| Description |
Common summer visitor. Breed over all the Shetland Islands. The first wheatear in April is welcomed as a sign of spring. By early September they are moving to their wintering quarters in tropical Africa.
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