Ashy-headed Wagtail

Motacilla flava cinereocapilla Savi, 1831 (1, 9)

Photo © Mike Prince from Bangalore, India, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Sub-species

STATUS

Italy, Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia and Slovenia.

OVERVIEW

Two records in the south-west, one in the Midlands, the rest in the south and eastern counties.

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BBRC RECORDS

1). c. 1860 Cornwall Near Marazion, obtained, May.

(Gould, 1873; Penhallurick, 1978; BOURC (2013), Ibis 155: 669).

2). 1959 Essex The Hythe, Colchester, male, 7th to 8th April.

(G. A. Pyman and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 53: 427).

3). 1959 Greater London/Surrey Perry Oaks Sewage-farm, Middlesex, male, 10th to 11th May, again, 31st May to 12th June.

(G. A. Pyman and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 53: 427; Wheatley, 2007).

4). 1966 Bedfordshire Dunstable Sewage-farm, male, 15th to 21st May.

(R. A. Brind, Bedfordshire Naturalist 50 (1995): 64; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 104: 617).

5). 1983 Yorkshire Thrybergh Reservoir, Rotherham, male, 17th April.

(Mather, 1986; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 106: 623).

6). 2005 Derbyshire Ogston Reservoir, 2CY+ male, 16th April, photo.

(C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 110: 619).

7). 2006 Norfolk Pentney Gravel-pits, male, 9th to 10th April, photo.

(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 103: 624; British Birds 109: plates 230 & 231).

8). 2006 Lincolnshire Covenham Reservoir, 12th to 13th April, photo.

(Anon., Lincolnshire Rare & Scarce Bird Report 2003-2007: 137, photo; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 114: 616).

9). 2021 Isles of Scilly Porth Hellick, St Mary's, 2CY+, male, 1st to 2nd April, photo, sound recording.

(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 115: 602).

10). 2021 Gwent Newport Wetlands, male, 6th May.

(BBRC).

P). 2022 Sussex Pagham Harbour, male, 10th May.

(birding information services).