Black Lark
Melanocorypha yeltoniensis (Forster, JR, 1768) (0, 3)
Photo © By Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom - Black Lark (Melanocorypha yeltoniensis), CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47039129
STATUS
Central Eurasia: Southern Russia and Kazakhstan. Monotypic.
OVERVIEW
The first record was only positively identified and then submitted fifteen years after its sighting. The second individual, nearly twenty years later was a crowd pleaser.
BBRC RECORDS
1). 1984 Yorkshire Spurn, male, 27th April.
(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 97: 590; BOURC (2005) Ibis 147: 246-250).
2). 2003 Anglesey South Stack RSPB, male, 1st to 8th June, photo.
(Birding World 16 (5): 180, photo; K. Croft, Birding World 16 (6): 238-243, plates 1-4; Birding World 16 (12): 506, 528, photos; British Birds 96: plate 249; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 97: 590, plate 347; L. Degnan & K. Croft, British Birds 98: 306-313, plate 167; British Birds 102: plate 275).
3). 2008 Norfolk Winterton Dunes, male, 20th to 21st April, photo.
(Birding World 21 (4): 134, photo; S. Offord, Birding World 21 (4): 153-155, plates 1-4; British Birds 101: plate 163; Birding World 21 (12): 503, photo; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 102: 569, plate 374).
