Data Sheet Info

Cyprus Wheatear, Oenanthe cypriaca, is a species of passerine bird in the chat and flycatcher family found in heathland and shrub and unvegetated or sparsely vegetated land ecosystems.

Oenanthe cypriaca is endemic to Cyprus and has a breeding population size of 40000-100000 pairs and a breeding range size of 8300 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Stable in the short term and Unknown in the long term.

The EU population status of Oenanthe cypriaca was assessed as Secure, because the species does not meet any of the IUCN Red List criteria for threatened or Near Threatened, or the criteria for Depleted or Declining (the EU27 population or range has not declined by 20% or more since 1980).