Tennessee Warbler
Leiothlypis peregrina (Wilson, A, 1811) (0, 6)
Photo © Phil Woollen - Fair Isle, September 2024
STATUS
North America. Monotypic.
OVERVIEW
All arrivals have appeared in September, four of the five in the northern isles, the other on St Kilda.
BBRC RECORDS
1). 1975 Fair Isle Finniquoy, Double Dyke and Upper Stoneybrek, first-winter, 6th to 20th September, trapped, Field, 18th September, photo.
(J. N. Dymond and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 69: 354; Fair Isle Bird Observatory Report 1975: photo; R. A. Broad, British Birds 74: 90-94, plates 29 & 30; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 74: 491; Scottish Bird Report 1975: 209, plate 19a, 231; BOURC (1978), Ibis 120: 410; A. Prowse, British Birds 86: 541; G. Walbridge, Birding Scotland 7 (3): 119-122, plate 107; Forrester & Andrews et al., 2007: photo).
2). 1975 Fair Isle Observatory and Buness, first-winter, trapped, 24th September.
(J. N. Dymond and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 69: 354; R. A. Broad, British Birds 74: 90-94; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 74: 491; BOURC (1978), Ibis 120: 410; A. Prowse, British Birds 86: 541).
3). 1982 Orkney Holm, Mainland, first-year, 5th to 7th September, trapped 7th September, photo.
(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 76: 524; E. R. Meek, British Birds 77: 160-164, plate 52; E. R. Meek, Orkney Bird Report 1983: 57-58).
4). 1995 Outer Hebrides Hirta, St Kilda, 20th September, photo.
(Birding World 8 (10): 369, photo; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 89: 524).
5). 2020 Shetland Burravoe, Yell, 1CY, 29th September to 4th October, photo; presumed same, Breckon, Yell, 5th to 7th October, photo.
(British Birds 113: plate 427; D. Preston, Scottish Birds 41: 81-82, plates 77 & 78; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 114: 621, plate 432).
6). 2022 Pembrokeshire Skokholm, 1CY, 12th October, photo.
(L. Bacon, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 116: 596).
P). 2023 Outer Hebrides Hirta, St Kilda, 15th to 18th September, photo.
(W. T. S. Miles & C. Nisbet, Scottish Birds 43: 378-380, plates 324-327).
P). 2023 Outer Hebrides Castlebay, Barra, 21st to 23rd September.
(birding information services).
P). 2023 Outer Hebrides Brevig, Barra, 24th to 27th September.
(birding information services).
P). 2023 Shetland Houbie, Fetlar, 29th September.
(birding information services).
P). 2024 Fair Isle Upper Stoneybrek and Chalet, first-winter female, trapped, 15th to 19th September, photo.
(British Birds 117: plate 456).
