Thick-billed Warbler
Arundinax aedon (Pallas, 1776) (0, 6)
Photo © By PJeganathan - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59011692
STATUS
Eurasia. Polytypic.
OVERVIEW
The first four records were all of trapped individuals with the 2003 record being a spring adult. All other records from the autumn migration.
BBRC RECORDS
1). 1955 Fair Isle Leogh, trapped, 6th October, photo.
(K. Williamson, Fair Isle Bird Observatory Report 1955-56: 19; K. Williamson, Fair Isle Bird Observatory Bulletin 3: 3-4; K. Williamson, Fair Isle Bird Observatory Bulletin 3: 61; K. Williamson, V. M. Thom, I. J. Ferguson-Lees & H. E. Axell, British Birds 49: 89-93; BOURC (1957), Ibis 100: 299; E. V. Baxter, Scottish Naturalist 69: 170; Pennington et al., 2004: 422, photo).
2). 1971 Shetland Whalsay, trapped, 23rd September, released Lerwick, 24th September, found dead 25th September.
(F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 65: 342; J. H. Simpson, Scottish Birds 7: 262; B. Marshall, Scottish Birds 7: 262-263; I. H. J. Lyster, Scottish Birds 7: 263).
3). 2001 Shetland Housay, Out Skerries, first-winter, trapped, 14th September, photo.
(P. V. Harvey, Birding World 14 (9): 372-373, photos; Birding World 14 (12): 509, photo; British Birds 94: plates 285 & 286; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 95: 511, plate 303; P. V. Harvey & K. D. N. Shaw, Birding Scotland 4 (4): 154-158, plates 117-120; P. V. Harvey, Shetland Bird Report 2001: 96-97, photo).
4). 2003 Fair Isle Vaadal, adult, trapped, 16th May, released Observatory Plantation, 16th May; same, Midway, 17th May, photo.
(D. N. Shaw, Birding World 16 (5): 206-208, plates 1-3; Birding World 16 (12): 521, photo; British Birds 96: plate 250; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 97: 604, plate 357; Birding Scotland 6 (3): plates 125-129; Fair Isle Bird Observatory Report 2003: photo; Forrester & Andrews et al., 2007: photo).
5). 2013 Shetland Geosetter, Mainland, 4th to 5th October, photo.
(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 107: 624, plate 313).
6). 2015 Shetland Quendale, Mainland, 1CY+, 24th September, photo.
(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 109: 609).
