Alder Flycatcher
Empidonax alnorum Brewster, 1895 (0, 3)
Photo © Phil Woollen - Blakeney Point, Norfolk, 26 September 2010
STATUS
North America. Monotypic.
OVERVIEW
The first for Britain was trapped and proved worthwhile as the biometrics proved conclusively that it was an Alder Flycatcher and not the similar Willow Flycatcher E. traillii.
BBRC RECORDS
1). 2008 Cornwall Nanjizal, first-winter, 8th to 9th October, trapped 9th October.
(British Birds 101: plate 339; Birding World 21 (10): 398, photo; K. Wilson, Birding World 21 (10): 425-431, plates 1-9; Birding World 21 (12): 514, photo; BOURC (2011), Ibis 153: 227-232; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 107: 614, plate 305; BOURC (2015), Ibis 157: 186; K. Wilson, British Birds 108: 314-324, plates 177-178, 180-181; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 108: 598).
2). 2010 Norfolk Blakeney Point, first-winter, 25th to 27th September, photo.
(Birding World 23 (9): 366, photo; J. McCallum, Birding World 23 (9): 386-389, plates 1-8; British Birds 103: plate 384; Birding World 23 (12): 537, photo; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 107: 614, plate 304; J. McCallum, British Birds 108: 325-330, plates 184-187).
3). 2023 Pembrokeshire Skokholm, 1CY, male, trapped, 20th to 28th September, photo, DNA analysis.
(L. Bacon, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 117: 706).
