Amur Falcon

Falco amurensis Radde, 1863 (0, 2)

Photo © Touhid biplob, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

STATUS

Eastern Siberia, Korean Peninsular and north-east China. Monotypic.

OVERVIEW

The 1984 records from Yorkshire and Dumfries & Galloway were considered escapes.

The first for Britain spent about a month here as a Red-footed Falcon Falco vespertinus but with images on the internet, the diagnostic pure white axillaries, clinched it as an Amur Falcon.

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BBRC RECORDS

1). 2008 Yorkshire Tophill Low Reservoir, first-summer male, 14th September to 15th October, photo.

(D. Mansell, Birding World 21 (10): 432-435, plates 1-14; British Birds 101: plate 386; Birding World 21 (12): 512, photo; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 103: 577, plate 311; BOURC (2011), Ibis 153: 227-232; D. Mansell, British Birds 104: 694-701, plates 388-393).

2). 2017 Cornwall Polgigga and St Buryan area, 2CY, female, 6th to 17th July, photo.

(British Birds 110: plate 274; C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 111: 590, plate 381).