Dusky Thrush

Turdus eunomus Temminck, 1831 (1, 16)

Photo © J-L Irvine - Skaw, Whalsay, Shetland, 5th December 2018

STATUS

Eurasia. Monotypic.

OVERVIEW

No real pattern emerging regarding arrivals areas which are quite widespread with some of the birds overwintering. Six of the individuals have arrived in winter (five December, one February), nine in the autumn and one spring record in May 2013.

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BBRC RECORDS

1). 1905 Nottinghamshire Gunthorpe, shot, 13th October.

(J. Whitaker, Zoologist 1905: 466; J. Whitaker, Field 13th Oct., 1905: 989; W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 16: 45; H. Saunders, British Birds 1: 5; Whitaker, 1907; BOU, 1915).

2). 1959 Cleveland/Co. Durham Hartlepool Headland, Co. Durham, first-winter male, 12th December to 24th February 1960, trapped 10th January, photo.

(B. J. Coates, British Birds 53: 275-276, plate 35; G. A. Pyman and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 53: 423; G. A. Pyman and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 54: 190, corr.; Birding World 4 (9): 319, photo; Blick, 2009: 220, photo).

3). 1961 Fair Isle Haa, first-winter female, 18th October; same, Vaadal, trapped, 19th October; same, Observatory, 20th October; same, Vatstrass Burn, 21st October.

(C. M. Swaine and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 55: 577; D. G. Andrew, Scottish Birds 2: 343; R. H. Dennis, Scottish Birds 5: 392-394).

4). 1968 Shetland Whalsay, 24th September.

(F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 62: 476; J. H. Simpson, Scottish Birds 5: 392).

5). 1975 Shetland Firth, near Mossbank, Mainland, 6th to 13th November, photo.

(J. N. Dymond and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 69: 344; Scottish Bird Report 1975: plate 18a; Birding World 6 (4): 158, photo; Forrester & Andrews et al., 2007: photo).

6). 1979 West Midlands Majors Green, Shirley, 17th to 19th February, again 27th to 28th February and again 18th, 19th and 23rd March.

(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 73: 521; Harrison et al., 1982).

7). 1983 Cornwall Coombe Valley, Bude, adult male, 13th November.

(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 77: 550).

8). 1987 Pembrokeshire Skomer, 3rd to 5th December.

(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 82: 542).

9). 2010 Greater Manchester Leigh, male, 8th December, photo.

(Birding World 24 (1): 2, photo; British Birds 104: plates 77 & 261; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 104: 608, plate 326).

10). 2013 Kent Margate, first-winter female, 15th to 18th May, photo.

(British Birds 106: plate 256; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 107: 631, plate 319).

11). 2013 Devon Brixham, first-winter female, 26th October to 2nd November, photo.

(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 107: 631).

12). 2016 Isles of Scilly Peninnis, St Mary's, 1CY+ female or 1CY male, 26th October, photo.

(C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 110: 608).

13). 2016 Derbyshire Beeley, 1CY, female, 4th December to 10th February 2017, photo.

(British Birds 110: plates 22 & 89; C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 110: 608, plate 336; C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 111: 604).

14). 2018 Yorkshire Easington, 1CY+, 4th November.

(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 112: 607).

15). 2018 Shetland Skaw, Whalsay, 1CY, male, 5th December, photo.

(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 112: 607, plates 30 & 341).

16). 2019 Yorkshire North Ferriby, 1CY, male, 23rd November, photo.

(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 113: 633, plate 382).

17). 2022 Lothian Pitcox Farm, Dunbar, 1CY, male, trapped, 21st October, photo.

(M. Fraser, Scottish Birds 43: 179-181, plates 139 & 140; L. Bacon, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 116: 587).

P). 2022 Norfolk Scoulton, 21st October.

(birding information services).