Isabelline Wheatear

The isabelline wheatear is a small chat, 15–16.5 centimetres long, with sandy-brown upperparts tinged isabelline, a pale grey-yellow or fawn shade. The rump and upper tail-coverts are white and the brownish-black tail has a large white base, covering more than half the length of the outer feathers. A creamy over-eye streak and pale brown ear-coverts complete the face. It resembles a female northern wheatear but is larger, more upright and more tawny, with more black on the tail. (Wikipedia, general species account)

A migratory insect-eater of steppe and open country, it breeds from southern Russia, the Caspian region, the Kyzyl Kum Desert and central Asia to Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan and Israel, and winters in Africa and northwestern South Asia. It is active and restless, moving across the ground in long hops, bobbing, and flaring and flicking its tail. It forages mostly on the ground, probing the soil, and occasionally flutters up after flying insects. In winter quarters it is solitary. (Wikipedia, general species account)