Blackstart

Taxonomy

Order

Passeriformes

Family

Muscicapidae

Genus

Oenanthe

eBird Code

blacks1

Subspecies (6)

• Oenanthe melanura airensis

  eastern Niger (Aïr Massif) to Chad and central Sudan (Kordufan)

• Oenanthe melanura aussae

  eastern Ethiopia (Danakil Depression), Djibouti, and adjacent Somalia

• Oenanthe melanura lypura

  southeastern Egypt, eastern Sudan, Eritrea, and northeastern Ethiopia

• Oenanthe melanura melanura

  Dead Sea depression of Egypt and Jordan to Saudi Arabia

• Oenanthe melanura neumanni

  western Saudi Arabia to Yemen, Aden, and Hadhramaut

• Oenanthe melanura ultima

  Mali and southern Niger