Some common species are European golden plover, meadow pipit and northern wheatear.

Females are darker than Northern Wheatear, look smaller and showed less white on the rump.

The following are the subspecies of Northern Wheatear:

The Northern Wheatear is larger than the European Robin at 14 -16 cm length.

He studied the Northern Wheatear.

The Northern Wheatear makes one of the longest journeys of any small bird, crossing ocean, ice, and desert.

After a walk above Larne it struck me that people may be unfamiliar with one of our commoner summer migrants, the Northern Wheatear.

Resembles the larger and darker Northern Wheatear, but with a duller reddish breast and broader black tail tip.

These include the Northern Wheatear, Willow Warbler and Barn Swallow.

Except for the central pair, the tail feathers are much whiter than in the Northern Wheatear, the white on the inner web often extending to the tip.

In the case of the wheatear, it refers to the Northern Wheatear's return to Greece in the spring just as the grapevines blossom.

The song is similar to that of the Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) and is a rather squeaky warble.

The GIUK gap is also a route for migratory birds such as the northern wheatear to cross the Atlantic to reach Greenland and eastern Canada.

Chiffchaffs, goldcrests and Northern Wheatear are usually the first to pass through, followed by sedge warblers and willow warblers, whitethroats and spotted flycatchers.

This is an Old World group, but the Northern Wheatear has established a foothold in eastern Canada and Greenland and in western Canada and Alaska.

The Willow Warbler, the Common Redpoll, the Brambling, the Yellow Wagtail, the Northern Wheatear and the Bluethroat are characteristic of the birch forests.

Miniature tracking devices have recently shown that the Northern Wheatear has one of the longest migratory flights known - 30,000 km (18,640 miles), from sub-Saharan Africa to their Arctic breeding grounds.

Other breeding species include Common Raven, Common Buzzard, Peregrine Falcon, Northern Wheatear, gulls, auks, Manx Shearwater and Common Guillemot.

However, the breast band, larger size, and white at the base of the outer tail feathers distinguish it from the migrant Northern Wheatear, which is rare over most of the Capped Wheatear's range.

The area is important for wildlife, with peregrine, kestrel, Northern wheatear, European stonechat, skylark, Eurasian curlew and barn owl often seen, as well as Adders, Rabbits and other birds.

The Northern Wheatear has an extensive range, estimated at 2.3 million square kilometres (0.87 million square miles), and a large population estimated at 2.9 million individuals in the Old World and the Americas combined.

The most typical species on the heath are European Golden Plover, Meadow Pipit and Northern Wheatear but Rock Ptarmigan, Eurasian Dotterel and Whimbrel are also fairly common sights.

Other breeding birds include common teal, merlin, red grouse, short-eared owl, ring ouzel, and Northern wheatear, all of which are listed, or are candidates for listing, in the United Kingdom's Red Data Book (Birds).

Notable species of birds are represented by the Rock Thrush, Northern Wheatear, Black Stork, European Honey Buzzard, Short-toed Eagle, Eurasian Eagle-owl, Long-eared Owl, and European Nightjar.

Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) are common near stone boundary walls and other stony places.

The song is similar to that of the Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) and is a rather squeaky warble.

The Northern Wheatear or Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae.