Red-winged Blackbird

Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) (0, 1)

Photo © S Davies - North Ronaldsay, Orkney, 6 May 2017

STATUS

North and central America. Polytypic.

OVERVIEW

There were eighteen records of this bird during 1843-87 which were attributed to importation in the bird trade. However, with the restriction on the bird trade, this female was considered of wild origin and frequented an iris bed on North Ronaldsay, Orkney, for sixteen days to become the first for Britain.

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BBRC RECORD

1). 2017 Orkney Garso, Easting, North Ronaldsay, 2CY+ female, 29th April to 14th May, photo.

(British Birds 110: plate 206; S. J. Davies, Scottish Birds 37: 357-359, plates 303-305; C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 111: 618, plate 406; BOURC (2018), Ibis 160: 936; S. Davies, British Birds 112: 211-216, plates 120-122).