Mountain chat
Oenanthe monticola Vieillot, 1818
Status not recordedsongbirds
The mountain chat (Oenanthe monticola) is a species in the family Muscicapidae, order Passeriformes. Recorded adults weigh 33 g to 33.1 g.
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Quick facts about the mountain chat
- Weight
- 33.1 gsrc for Weight
- Length
- Not recorded
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Invertivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- grasslandsrc for Habitat
- Young per litter or clutch
- 2.8src for Young per litter or clutch
- Lifestyle
- Perchingsrc for Lifestyle
- Migration
- Sedentarysrc for Migration
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- Not recorded
Where does the mountain chat live?
Not recorded
Is the mountain chat endangered?
No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.
How is the mountain chat classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classAves
- orderPasseriformes
- familyMuscicapidae
- genusOenanthe
- SpeciesOenanthe monticola Vieillot, 1818
Synonyms Myrmecocichla monticola, Saxicola monticola
Other names and names in other languages (6)
- Mountain wheatearEnglish
- Mountain wheatearEnglish
- tinwen y mynyddWelsh
- BergsteinschmätzerGerman
- Traquet montagnardFrench
- hvitvingesteinskvettNorwegian Bokmål
Relatives of the mountain chat
Other species in the same genus Oenanthe.
Northern wheatear
Oenanthe oenanthe
Isabelline wheatear
Oenanthe isabellina
Desert wheatear
Oenanthe deserti
Western black-eared wheatear
Oenanthe hispanica
Pied wheatear
Oenanthe pleschanka
Black wheatear
Oenanthe leucura
CompareMountain chat vs Northern wheatearMountain chat vs Isabelline wheatearMountain chat vs Desert wheatearMountain chat vs Western black-eared wheatear
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the mountain chat?
An adult mountain chat weighs 33.1 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
What kind of animal is the mountain chat?
The mountain chat (Oenanthe monticola) belongs to the family Muscicapidae in the order Passeriformes.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.
- An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles · CC0 1.0 · E096-269
Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1 - AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds · CC BY 4.0 · v7
Tobias, J.A. et al. (2022) AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25: 581–597. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16586228.v7 - Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
Wikidata contributors. Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org (data retrieved via the Wikidata Query Service).
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