Rock Bunting
Emberiza cia Linnaeus, 1766 (3, 3)
Photo © By Imran Shah from Islamabad, Pakistan - Rock Bunting (Emberiza cia), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81860785
STATUS
Eurasia. Polytypic.
OVERVIEW
A review of the two individuals in Sussex (1902) and the 1965 Yorkshire record by the BOURC (2006) were still found to be acceptable as the first for Britain with the Yorkshire record admitting the species onto Category A of the British List (Ibis 148: 201). A mixture of arrival dates.
BBRC RECORDS
1). 1902 Sussex Near Shoreham-by-Sea, two, caught at the end of October, one now at Dyke Road Museum, Brighton.
(R. B. Sharpe, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 13: 38-39; W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 15: 28; C. J. Carroll, Zoologist 1904: 312-313; H. Saunders, British Birds 1: 13; BOURC (2006), Ibis 148: 198-201).
3). 1905 Kent Perry Woods, near Faversham, caught alive, 14th February.
(C. J. Carroll, Ibis 1905: 291; H. Saunders, British Birds 1: 13; Ticehurst, 1909; Harrison, 1953).
4). 1965 Yorkshire Spurn, 19th February to 10th March.
(D. D. Harber and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 59: 299; F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 60: 335, corr.; BOURC (2006), Ibis 148: 198-201).
5). 1967 Caernarfonshire Bardsey, male, 1st June.
(F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 61: 360).
6). 2011 Yorkshire Bolton Abbey, male, 8th May, photo.
(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 106: 632, plate 374).
