Chestnut-eared Bunting
Emberiza fucata Pallas, 1776 (0, 2)
Photo © By Imran Shah from Islamabad, Pakistan - Chestnut-eared Bunting (Emberiza fucata), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81886288
STATUS
Eurasia. Polytypic.
OVERVIEW
This first for Britain was trapped and proved to be a first-winter of the nominate form that breeds east of Lake Baikal. With Rufous-tailed Robin Luscinia sibilans on Fair Isle on the 23rd October and an Eastern Crowned Warbler Phylloscopus coronatus in Finland on the same day its supporting cast enhanced its credentials as of wild origin.
BBRC RECORDS
1). 2004 Fair Isle Skaddan, first-winter male, trapped, 15th to 20th October, photo.
(D. N. Shaw, Birding World 17 (10): 415-419, plates 1-4, 9 & 10; Birding World 17 (12): 523, photo; D. N. Shaw, Birding Scotland 7 (4): 145-151, plates 130-135; British Birds 97: plate 399; Fair Isle Bird Observatory Report 2004: photo; P. A. Fraser, M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 100: 100; BOURC (2007), Ibis 149: 652; Forrester & Andrews et al., 2007: photo; D. N. Shaw, British Birds 101: 235-240, plates 127-130; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 101: 571, corr.).
2). 2012 Shetland Virkie, Mainland, first-winter, 23rd to 25th October, photo.
(I. S. Robertson, R. Fray & M. S. Chapman, Birding World 25 (10): 433-436, plates 1-4; British Birds 105: plate 430; R. M. Fray, Scottish Birds 33: 172-173, plates 151-153; British Birds 106: plate 292; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 106: 632, plate 375).
