Eastern Black Redstart
Phoenicurus ochruros phoenicuroides/rufiventris (Moore, F, 1854) / (Vieillot, 1818) (0, 17)
Photo © Keith A Naylor - Skinningrove, Cleveland/Yorkshire, November 2016
STATUS
P. o. phoenicuroides: North-east Iran and Turkmenistan to north-west Pakistan north to south-east Kazakhstan, north-west China, and southern central, eeastern Mongolia.
P. o. rufiventris: Central Himalayas to central China.
OVERVIEW
Of the invasion of nine individuals during 2016 five occurred in autumn with the other four arriving in winter (December). One made it into southern Scotland, the only record for that country
BBRC RECORDS
1). 1981 Kent Dungeness BO, first-winter male, 7th to 8th November, trapped 7th November, photo.
(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 76: 507; C. Kehoe, British Birds 99: 634; BOURC (2013), Ibis 156: 240; British Birds 105: plates 262 & 263; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 107: 634; BOURC (2015), Ibis 157: 187; A. M. Stoddart, British Birds 109: 211-219, plate 105-107).
2). 2003 Norfolk Wells-next-the-Sea, first-winter male, 9th November.
(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 107: 634).
3). 2011 Kent Foreness Point, first-winter male, 11th to 17th November, photo.
(Birding World 24 (11): 442, photo; B. Hunt, Birding World 24 (11): 460-466, plates 1-6; Birding World 24 (12): 518, photo; British Birds 105: plates 35; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 107: 634; British Birds 109: plate 103).
4). 2011 Northumberland Holy Island, first-winter male, 16th to 21st November, photo.
(B. Hunt, Birding World 24 (11): 460-466, plates 7-10; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 107: 634, plate 324; British Birds 109: plate 104).
5). 2014 Yorkshire Scalby, first-winter male, 29th November to 3rd December, photo.
(British Birds 108: plate 28; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 108: 618, plate 365; British Birds 109: plate 108; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 109: 617).
6). 2014 Isles of Scilly Carn Thomas, St Mary's, first-winter male, 30th November to 12th January 2015, photo.
(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 108: 618; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 109: 617).
7). 2016 Yorkshire Easington, 1CY, male, 25th October, photo.
(C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 110: 612).
8). 2016 Lincolnshire Donna Nook, 1CY, male, 26th to 28th October, photo.
(C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 110: 612).
9). 2016 Cleveland/Yorkshire Skinningrove, 1CY, male, 27th October to 28th March 2017, photo.
(British Birds 109: plate 407; C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 110: 612, plate 338; C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 111: 606).
10). 2016 Cleveland Hartlepool Headland, 1CY, male, 3rd to 15th November, photo.
(C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 110: 612).
11). 2016 Yorkshire Cayton Bay, 1CY, male, 7th to 11th November, photo.
(C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 111: 606, plate 393).
12). 2016 Lothian Torness, 1CY, male, 2nd to 22nd December, photo.
(C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 110: 612).
13.0). 2016 Worcestershire Ripple Gravel-pits, 1CY, male, 6th December, photo; also in Gloucestershire.
(C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 110: 612).
13.1). 2016 Gloucestershire Tewkesbury Abbey, 1CY, male, 7th to 11th December, photo; same as Worcestershire.
(C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 110: 612).
14). 2016 Cornwall Mousehole, 1CY, male, 18th December to 1st February 2017, photo.
(British Birds 110: plate 54; C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 110: 612; C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 111: 606).
15). 2019 Cleveland Loftus Alum Quarries, 1CY, male, 9th November, photo.
(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 113: 636).
16). 2021 Norfolk Snettisham, 2CY+, 1st to 31st January.
(L. Bacon, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 116: 588).
17). 2022 Orkney Dennis Head, North Ronaldsay, 1CY, male, 23rd October to 1st November, photo.
(L. Bacon, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 116: 588).
