Bimaculated Lark

Melanocorypha bimaculata (Ménétriés, 1832) (0, 3)

Photo © By Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom - Bimaculated Lark (Melanocorypha bimaculata), CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47762094

STATUS

Eurasia. Monotypic.

OVERVIEW

Far flung islands appears to be where you would find this species. Another is long overdue.

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BBRC RECORDS

1). 1962 Devon Lundy, 7th to 11th May.

(D. D. Harber & C. M. Swaine and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 56: 403; M. Jones, British Birds 58: 309-312; BOURC (1971), Ibis 113: 143).

2). 1975 Isles of Scilly Peninnis Head, St Mary's, 24th to 27th October, photo.

(J. N. Dymond and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 69: 343; D. S. Flumm, Isles of Scilly Bird Report 1975: 33; D. S. Flumm, British Birds 70: 298-300; Flood, Hudson & Thomas, 2007: plate 97).

3). 1976 Fair Isle Field, 8th June.

(J. O'Sullivan and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 70: 428; S. M. Whitehouse, British Birds 71: 462-463).