Pied Wheatear

The pied wheatear is a small insect-eating chat. The male is a boldly marked black-and-white bird: a white crown tinged with pale brown contrasts with the black face, chin, throat and upper breast, and the back, rump and upper tail-coverts are creamy-white. The mantle and scapulars are black with buff tips, and the tail is white with black tips except the black central pair. The female is browner, with the head washed in sandy buff. (Wikipedia, general species account)

This migratory central Asian wheatear breeds from Romania and Bulgaria through Siberia, the Altai and Mongolia, south to the Caucasus, Transcaspia, Turkestan, Iran and Afghanistan. It occurs up to 2,000 metres in the Altai and 3,000 metres in the Tien Shan, in rough open country, steppe with scant vegetation, stony slopes and hilly ground. It migrates to northeast Africa through southwest Asia and has also been found wintering in India. (Wikipedia, general species account)