The Cyprus wheatear or Cyprus pied wheatear (Oenanthe cypriaca) is a small, 14–15 cm long passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae.

It was formerly treated as a subspecies (race) of pied wheatear but Sluys and van den Berg (1982)[2] argued that the form deserved full species status, on the basis of differences in biometrics and especially song, and the lack of sexual plumage dimorphism in cypriaca.

This migratory insectivorous species breeds only in Cyprus, and winters in southern Sudan and Ethiopia.

[4] This species closely resembles pied wheatear, although it has slightly more black on the tail and back, and on the head.

It often breeds in woodland habitats, unlike other wheatears (Oliver 1990[7] suggested that it occupies the ecological niche used elsewhere in the Western Palearctic by the common redstart).