British Rarities and Scarcities


Rosy Starling (Pastor roseus)
, Greater Manchester, October 2018

   

Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus)
Rochdale, Greater Manchester, January 2018

   

Caspian Gull (Caspian) (Larus cachinnans cachinnans)
Oldham, Greater Manchester, January 2018

   

Mealy Redpoll (Acanthis flammea)
Bury, Greater Manchester, January 2018

     

Thrush Nightingale (Luscinia luscinia)
Co Durham, May 2013

   

Collared Flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis)
Northumberland, May 2013

   

Blue-headed Wagtail (Motacilla flava flava) – St Mary’s Island, Northumberland 29th April 2013

White Wagtail (Motacilla alba alba) – St Mary’s Island, Northumberland 29th April 2013

“Channel” Wagtail (Motacilla flava flava x M. f. flavissima) – Audenshaw Reservoirs, Greater Manchester 26th April 2013

Little Bunting (Emberiza pusilla) – Elba Park, Houghton-le-spring, Durham 17th April 2013

Red-throated Diver (Gavia stellata) – Hartlepool Headland, Co. Durham 7th January 2012

 

Eastern Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros phoenicuroides) – Holy Island, Northumberland 20th November 2011

Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) – Saltholme RSPB, Cleveland 17th October 2011

Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) – Marden Quarry, Whitley Bay 11th October 2011

White-throated Robin (Irania gutturalis) – Hartlepool Headland, Durham, 10th June 2011

Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) – Concord, Washington, Tyne and Wear, February 2011

Coues’s Arctic Redpoll (Carduelis exlipes) – Rainton Meadows DWT, Durham, 11th Jan 2011

Pied-billed Grebe(Podilymbus podiceps) – Hollingworth Lake, Rochdale, 13th November 2010

     

Western Bonelli’s Warbler (Phylloscopus bonelli) – Bempton, East Yorkshire 12th September 2010

Black-throated Thrush (Turdus atrogularis) – Newholm, North Yorks, 8th Feb 2010

   

Sabine’s Gull (Larus sabini) – Juvenile, North Shields, Tyne and Wear, 7th November 2009

Dotterel (Charadrius morinellus) – Axlemoor, Oldham, 26th-28th April 2009

         

Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis) – St Marys Golf Course, Isles of Scilly, 1st Oct 2004

Cream-coloured Courser (Cursorius cursor) – 1st Winter, St Martin’s, Isles of Scilly, 1st Oct 2004

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