Summer Tanager
Piranga rubra (Linnaeus, 1758) (0, 1)
Photo © By Mike's Birds - Summer TanagerUploaded by Magnus Manske, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21097492
STATUS
Southern USA and northern Mexico. Polytypic.
OVERVIEW
This first-winter male was trapped three times during its fifteen day stay on the north-west Welsh island.
BBRC RECORD
1). 1957 Caernarfonshire Bardsey, first-winter male, 11th to 25th September, trapped 11th, 15th and 20th September, photo.
(R. W. Arthur, British Birds 56: 49-52, plate 12; I. C. T. Nisbet, British Birds 56: 204-217; BOURC (1963), Ibis 105: 290; Lovegrove, Williams & Williams, 1994; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 92: 603; BOURC (1999), Ibis 141: 177; M. Grantham, Birding World 17 (8): 348, 349, photo).
