Acadian Flycatcher
Empidonax virescens (Vieillot, 1818) (0, 1)
Photo © By William H. Majoros - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15981008
STATUS
North America. Monotypic.
OVERVIEW
The second Western Palearctic record, the first was of a bird found dead in Iceland in autumn 1967. It is the second species of Empidonax to arrive in Britain, the Alder Flycatcher E. alnorum having been seen in 2008 (Cornwall) and 2010 (Norfolk).
BBRC RECORD
1). 2015 Kent Dungeness, 1CY+, 22nd September, photo, DNA analysis.
(Anon., British Birds 108: 645, plate 410; M. Casemore, Kent Bird Report 2015: 182-183; BOURC (2017), Ibis 159: 925; J. M. Collinson, British Birds 110: 16-18, plates 7 & 8; C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 110: 592, plate 320; D. Walker, British Birds 110: 755-759, plates 397-402).
