Kurdistan Wheatear breeds in parts of southeastern Turkey, Syria, northern Iraq, and southwestern Iran, then winters farther south toward the Red Sea and southern Arabia.
Males have a gray crown and back, a clear white eyebrow, a black face and throat, and rusty red at the tail. Females lack the male's black throat.
It uses stony or barren hillsides with low scrub. After breeding, it moves south toward winter areas around the Red Sea and Arabia.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.