Black-headed Wagtail

Motacilla flava feldegg Michahelles, 1830 (0, 23)

Photo © Andreas Trepte, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons

Sub-species

STATUS

Balkans and Turkey to Iran and Afghanistan.

OVERVIEW

A pre-requisite for acceptance of this sub-species by BBRC is the call, also, any white marks on the head or supercilium are a bar (Rowlands 2016).

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BBRC RECORDS

1). 1970 Fair Isle Easter Lother, male, 7th to 8th May; same, Byerwell, 9th May.

(F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 64: 364; R. H. Dennis, Scottish Birds 6: 215-216; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 88: 530; BOURC (1993), Ibis 135: 496).

2). 1983 Norfolk Cley-next-the-Sea, male, 30th July to 6th August, photo.

(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 93: 548; Birding World 14 (4): 166, photo).

3). 1984 Lothian Skateraw, male, 28th April.

(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 79: 568; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 88: 530; BOURC (1993), Ibis 135: 496).

4). 1985 Northumberland Cresswell Pond, 2nd June.

(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 82: 539; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 88: 530; I. Kerr, Birds in Northumbria 1993: 92).

5). 1985 Suffolk Landguard, male, 30th June.

(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 85: 536; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 88: 530).

6). 1986 Pembrokeshire Skomer, 7th May.

(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 82: 539; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 88: 530).

7). 1988 Oxfordshire Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, 4th to 5th June; same, Roke, 4th June to 10th July.

(I. Lewington, Birding World 1 (6): 212; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 82: 539; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 88: 530).

8). 1998 Caernarfonshire Conwy, male, 8th to 9th May, photo.

(Birding World 11 (5): 170, photo; Birding World 11 (12): 467, photo; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 92: 587; Welsh Bird Report 12: photo).

9). 1999 Cornwall Camel Estuary, male, 11th to 12th May.

(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 93: 548).

10). 2003 Isles of Scilly Carn Friars, St Mary's, first-summer male, 6th May, photo.

(Birding World 16 (5): 184, photo; P. A. Fraser, M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 100: 77; Flood, Hudson & Thomas, 2007: plate 104).

11). 2004 Lincolnshire Holbeach Marsh, adult male, 4th June.

(P. A. Fraser, M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 100: 77).

12). 2005 Devon West Charleton Marsh, Kingsbridge Estuary, male, 8th to 18th June, photo; same, South Huish Marsh, adult male, 8th July to 2nd September, photo.

(Birding World 18 (6): 230, photo; Birding World 18 (8): 316, photo; British Birds 98: plate 281; British Birds 99: plate 351; P. A. Fraser, M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 100: 77; A. Williams, Devon Bird Report 2005: 177-178, photo).

13). 2006 Somerset Minehead Golf Course, male, 23rd to 24th April, photo.

(Birding World 19 (4): 145, photo; P. A. Fraser and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 100: 729).

14). 2009 Norfolk Titchwell RSPB, first-summer male, 25th April, photo.

(Birding World 22 (4): 140, photo; Birding World 22 (12): 499, photo; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 103: 624, plate 345).

15). 2009 Norfolk Kelling Water Meadows, male, 20th May, photo.

(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 103: 625).

16). 2010 Cornwall Land's End, first-summer male, 29th April to 1st May, photo.

(Birding World 23 (5): 188, photo; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 104: 617; British Birds 109: plate 220).

17). 2011 Anglesey Cemlyn, male, 6th May, photo.

(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 105: 610).

18). 2013 Pembrokeshire Marloes Mere, male, 12th to 13th May, photo.

(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 107: 640).

19). 2014 Wiltshire Salisbury Plain, 2CY+ male, 1st to 15th June.

(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 109: 619).

20). 2016 Norfolk Titchwell Marsh RSPB, 2CY+ male, 2nd to 3rd May, photo.

(C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 110: 620).

21). 2018 Lancashire & North Merseyside Leighton Moss RSPB, 2CY, male, 14th to 16th April, photo.

(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 112: 611).

22). 2019 Cornwall Housel Bay, Lizard Village, 2CY+, male, 19th May, photo.

(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 113: 639, plate 389).

23) 2021 East Glamorgan Cardiff Bay Barrage, 2CY, female, 14th May, photo, sound recording.

(P. French, British Birds 116: 523, plate 309; L. Bacon, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 116: 591).

P). 2022 Ceredigion Cors Caron, male, 28th May.

(birding information services).