Grey-tailed Tattler
Tringa brevipes (Vieillot, 1816)
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STATUS
Eurasia. Monotypic.
OVERVIEW
Species not admitted nationally during the period covered (BOU 1971).
NOT PROVEN
0). 1914 Sussex Rye Harbour, two: adult male, shot, 23rd September, adult female, shot, 27th September, one now at the Booth Museum, Brighton; female now at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery (Acc. No. 1962Z10.57).
(H. W. Ford-Lindsay, British Birds 9: 205; W. Ruskin Butterfield, Hastings & East Sussex Naturalist 2: 201; BOURC (1918), Ibis 60: 240; Walpole-Bond, 1938; Watson, 2010).
[E. M. Nicholson & I. J. Ferguson-Lees, British Birds 55: 299-384 HR].
History H. W. Ford-Lindsay (1916) in British Birds, Vol. IX. p. 205, says: 'Towards the middle of September, 1914, a couple of Grey-rumped Sandpipers (Tringa incana brevipes) were observed at Rye Harbour, Sussex. Both birds were eventually shot, the first, a male, on September 23rd and the second, a female, on September 27th. They were shown me whilst in the flesh.'
Admitted nationally in their First List Report as the first for Britain (BOURC (1918) Ibis 60: 240).
Walpole-Bond (1938 (3): 206) says: '...One of these birds is in the Booth Museum, Brighton, from the Nichols collection.'
Watson (2010) in detailing the J. L. Auden collection in the Birmingham Museum lists a female specimen that was obtained at Rye Harbour, Sussex, on 27th September 1914, adding that it was bought from J. B. Nichols sale.
Comment Hastings rarities. Not acceptable.
