Eastern Red-rumped Swallow
Cecropis daurica (Laxmann, 1769)(0, 2)
Photo © Nabin K. Sapkota, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
STATUS
North-eastern Kazakhstan, south-east Siberia, Mongolia to south and central China, Korean Peninsular and Japan. Polytypic.
OVERVIEW
The Eastern populations differ in showing conspicuous streaking on the throat and underparts, a darker face pattern and an incomplete pale collar.
Photographs taken of the first two records proved it was the same individual.
BBRC RECORDS
1.0). 2011 Orkney Nearhouse, Sanday, adult, 9th June; also in Highland.
(Birding World 24 (9): 382-382, plates 1 & 2; R. Y. McGowan, C. J. McInerny & T. ap Rheinallt, Scottish Birds 33: 99-121; BOURC (2013), Ibis 156: 236; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 106: 607; R. & S. Thorne, British Birds 107: 405-412, plate 204).
1.1). 2011 Highland Talisker Bay, Skye, Skye & Lochalsh, adult, 17th June; presumed same, 29th June, photo; presumed same as Orkney.
(B. O. Tveit, Birding World 24 (8): 327-341, plates 17-19; British Birds 105: plates 264 & 265; R. Y. McGowan, C. J. McInerny & T. ap Rheinallt, Scottish Birds 33: 99-121; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 106: 607, plate 354; BOURC (2013), Ibis 156: 236; R. & S. Thorne, British Birds 107: 405-412, plates 205 & 206).
2). 2018 At sea Sea area Cromarty, 50 km east of Lybster, Caithness, 2CY+, 26th May, photo.
(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 112: 595; C. J. McInerny & R. Y. McGowan, Scottish Birds 40: 109).
