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Pied Wheatear (Oenanthe pleschanka)Where and when to see it in the UK

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

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

Pied Wheatear (Oenanthe pleschanka)
Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Peak months
Pied 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.

Pied Wheatear has been recorded in 27 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (1%) in records to 2026. Its strongest squares are in England, Scotland and Wales. Reporting peaks in 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
11% to 100%
Moderate
2% to 11%
Low
under 2%
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 0%<1%Insufficient records
February 0%<1%Insufficient records
March 0%<1%Insufficient records
April 0%<1%Insufficient records
May 0%<1%Very high
June 0%<1%Insufficient records
July 0%<1%Insufficient records
August 0%<1%Insufficient records
September 0%<1%Very high
October 13%<1%Very high
November 100%<1%Moderate
December 0%<1%Insufficient records

Squares with the highest reporting rate in November

SquareWhereShare of visitsClass
HP61Shetland Islands, Scotland100%Very high
SJ28Wirral, England100%Very high
TM23Suffolk, England100%Very high
TR26Kent, England100%Very high
TV49East Sussex, England29%High
TV59East Sussex, England15%High
SJ29Wirral, England11%High
NZ46South Tyneside, England6%Moderate
NZ37North Tyneside, England5%Moderate
SW87Cornwall, England4%Moderate

Spotted an error in a square? Report it and it goes into the review queue. Read the methodology for how classes, flags and sensitive-species rules work. Data to 2026.