The Somali Wheatear lives in dry mountains in Somalia and eastern Ethiopia. It has gray upperparts and a black throat, and searches the ground for small invertebrates.
Its upperparts are gray and its throat is black.
It is sedentary and searches the ground for insects and other invertebrates. It uses open, stony grassland, semi-desert, and lightly bushed ground.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.