Bay-breasted Warbler

Setophaga castanea (Wilson, A, 1810) (0, 1)

Photo © By Mike's Birds from Riverside, CA, US - Bay-sided Warbler, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81468166

STATUS

North America. Monotypic.

OVERVIEW

Seen by two birders on a week’s holiday in Cornwall for 45 minutes who then photograph it and also took some camcorder footage. A sudden violent rainstorm forced the bird to hide in the dry stone wall, but after then it could not be relocated.

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BBRC RECORD

1). 1995 Cornwall Land's End, first-winter male, 1st October, photo.

(Birding World 8 (10): 369, photos; Birding World 9 (8): 318, photo; D. Ferguson, British Birds 90: 444-449, plates 153-155; D. Ferguson, Birds in Cornwall 1995: 158; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 90: 509; BOURC (1998), Ibis 140: 183).

P). 2023 Pembrokeshire Ramsey Island, first-winter, 21st to 26th September, photo.

(British Birds 117: plate 234).