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Hume's Wheatears are robin-sized birds. As opposed to many other wheatears, the two sexes of this species look alike. The entire head down to the chin, the wings and the tail are black. The back, rump and front from the chest downwards to the undertail coverts are white. The irises are black. The straight and slender bill is black, the legs and feet are dark-grey.

The overall distribution of this species can be assessed, and specific locations where birds have been spotted can be found, based on individual sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org .

The global distribution of Hume's Wheatear is available HERE .

The range of Hume's Wheatear extends from northern Arabia, around the Persian Gulf, through parts of Kuwait, Iraq and Iran. Recently, there have been only very few sightings further to the East, towards Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.

Hume's Wheatears are resident in northern Arabia, in particular in the rocky mountain ranges from Musandam to near the eastern tip of the peninsula, but also on the near-coastal strip.

Hume's Wheatears have a preference for mountainous, stony and even barren country with few shrubs, usually at the foot of hills/mountains.

A pair of Hume's Wheatears was spotted by us at an altitude of about 2400 m in Jebel Akhdar, South-west of Muscat, in February 2010.