Pallas's Reed Bunting
Emberiza pallasi (Cabanis, 1851) (0, 4)
Photo © Rémi Bigonneau, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
STATUS
Eurasia. Polytypic.
OVERVIEW
The Sussex individual was not identified until two years later when the ringers on seeing Colin Bradshaw’s paper (British Birds 85: 653-665) realised it was of this species from photographs. One individual arrived in summer, albeit, at sea.
BBRC RECORDS
1). 1976 Fair Isle Skerryholm, adult female, 29th September; same, Taing, 6th to 11th October, trapped 10th October, photo.
(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 72: 543; R. A. Broad & W. E. Oddie, British Birds 73: 402-408, plates 210-211; BOURC (1980), Ibis 122: 565).
2). 1981 Fair Isle Upper Stoneybrake, first-year, 17th to 18th September, trapped 17th September, photo.
(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 75: 531; Fair Isle Bird Observatory Report 1981: photo; N. Riddiford & T. Broome, British Birds 76: 174-182, plates 69-72; Forrester & Andrews et al., 2007: photo).
3). 1990 Sussex Elms Farm, Icklesham, first-winter male, trapped, 17th October, photo.
(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 87: 566, plates 148-149; G. C. M. Roberts, Sussex Bird Report 1993: 91).
4). 2010 At sea Sea area Dogger, female, 9th to 10th June, died, photo.
(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 104: 623, plate 337).
