Ovenbird
Seiurus aurocapilla (Linnaeus, 1766) (0, 7)
Photo © By Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren - Ovenbird, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81079684
STATUS
North America. Polytypic.
OVERVIEW
Mainly arrives here in October, but the only Mainland individual that was alive, unfortunately, was found in a private garden in Herefordshire on 20th December and stayed for 59 days, it had presumably arrived much earlier and worked its way up to the Midlands.
BBRC RECORDS
1). 1973 Shetland Out Skerries, trapped, 7th to 8th October, photo.
(F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 67: 337; I. S. Robertson, British Birds 68: 453-455; R. H. Dennis, Scottish Bird Report 1973: 274, plate 20b; BOURC (1974), Ibis 116: 578; Birding World 6 (4): 157, photo; Forrester & Andrews et al., 2007: photo).
2). 1985 Devon Spriddlestone, Wembury, probably first-winter, freshly dead on road, 22nd October, photo, skin retained by K. E. Partridge.
(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 79: 581; N. Ward, British Birds 80: 500-502, plates 249-250).
3). 2001 Herefordshire Dymock, near Much Marcle, 20th December to 16th February 2002, photo.
(Birding World 15 (1): 2, photo; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 95: 520; Bird Watching March, 2002: 72).
4). 2004 Isles of Scilly Trenoweth, St Mary's, 25th to 28th October when taken into care moribund, now at Isles of Scilly Museum.
(J. Harding, Birding World 17 (10): 424-425, plates 1 & 2; Birding World 17 (12): 524, photo; British Birds 97: plate 397; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 98: 688, plate 443; Birding World 20 (8): 339, photo; Flood, Hudson & Thomas, 2007: plate 146).
5). 2011 Outer Hebrides Castlebay, Barra, 23rd to 24th October.
(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 105: 619).
6). 2013 Orkney Holland, Papa Westray, 6th October, photo.
(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 107: 646, plate 333).
7). 2023 Highland Kilmory, Isle of Rum, Lochaber, 1CY+, 23rd September, photo.
(S. Morris, Scottish Birds 44: 95-96, plate 64; L. Bacon, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 117: 728).
