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Isabelline Wheatear (Oenanthe isabellina)Where and when to see it in the UK

Status not yet classified · reporting peaks October to November · Chats, Old World Flycatchers, and Allies · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Isabelline Wheatear (Oenanthe isabellina)
Lip Kee Yap, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Peak months
Isabelline Wheatear: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Isabelline Wheatear has been recorded in 35 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (1%) in records to 2026. Its strongest squares are in England, Wales and Scotland. Reporting peaks in October to November.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List
Relative to this species' best squares (how classes are calculated)
Very high
100% or more of visits
High
2% to 100%
Moderate
<1% to 2%
Low
under <1%
Surveyed, not recorded
at least 20 qualifying visits, no record
Insufficient records
too few visits to say
Lighter fill
Few visits, lower confidence
Small dot
Occasional: a single record, or out of season

Seasonality

Reporting rate by month, relative to the peak month
MonthRelative to peakShare of visitsTypical class
January 82%<1%High
February 10%<1%High
March 6%<1%High
April 12%<1%High
May 0%<1%Insufficient records
June 0%<1%Insufficient records
July 0%<1%Insufficient records
August 0%<1%Insufficient records
September 13%<1%Moderate
October 100%<1%Very high
November 98%<1%Low
December 41%<1%Low

Squares with the highest reporting rate in October

SquareWhereShare of visitsClass
HU31Shetland Islands, Scotland100%Very high
NK02Aberdeenshire, Scotland100%Very high
NZ52Redcar and Cleveland, England100%Very high
SH78Conwy, Wales100%Very high
SW54Cornwall, England100%Very high
TG04Norfolk, England100%Very high
TL47Cambridgeshire, England100%Very high
TL48Cambridgeshire, England4%High
HU67Sea, off Shetland Islands3%High
TF84Norfolk, England1%Moderate

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