Tennessee Warbler

Leiothlypis peregrina (Wilson, A, 1811) (0, 10)

Photo © Phil Woollen - Fair Isle, September 2024

STATUS

North America. Monotypic.

OVERVIEW

All arrivals have appeared in September, five in the northern isles, four in the Outer Hebrides, and one on Skokholm, Wales.

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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).

7). 2023 Outer Hebrides Village Glen, Hirta, St Kilda, 1CY, 15th to 18th September, photo.

(W. T. S. Miles & C. Nisbet, Scottish Birds 43: 378-380, plates 324-327; L. Bacon, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 117: 729).

8). 2023 Outer Hebrides Nask, Barra, 1CY+, 21st to 23rd September, photo.

(B. Taylor, K. Taylor & I. Ricketts, Scottish Birds 44: 167-174, plate 131; L. Bacon, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 117: 729).

9). 2023 Outer Hebrides Creachan Community Wood, Barra, 1CY+, 24th to 27th September, photo.

(B. Taylor, K. Taylor & I. Ricketts, Scottish Birds 44: 167-174, plate 134; L. Bacon, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 117: 729).

10). 2023 Shetland Houbie, Fetlar, 1CY, 29th September, photo.

(L. Bacon, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 117: 729).

P). 2024 Fair Isle Upper Stoneybrek and Chalet, first-winter female, trapped, 15th to 19th September, photo.

(British Birds 117: plate 456).