East Siberian Wagtail

Motacilla alba ocularis Swinhoe, 1860 (0, 1)

Photo © Neil Davidson

Sub-species

STATUS

Northern Siberia to north-west Alaska.

OVERVIEW

This first for Britain was found on the most northerly inhabited island of the British Isles.

A very fine dark eye-stripe that did not broaden at its rear end and a wholly grey rump and uppertail-coverts are starting points to identification.

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BBRC RECORD

1). 2020 Shetland Westing, Unst, 1CY+, 25th October, photo.

(M. Sutton, British Birds 114: 762; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 115: 602, plate 459; BOURC (2023) Ibis 165: 361).