Eastern Common Nightingale
Luscinia megarhynchos golzii Cabanis, 1873 (0, 3)
Photo © Alan Van Norman / Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (ML100676941) Almaty oblysy, Kazakhstan, 6 May 2018
Sub-species
STATUS
Eastern Iran to Kazakhstan, south-western Mongolia and north-west China. Winters in East Africa.
OVERVIEW
This sub-species is slightly larger, paler and more grey-brown than the nominate species with a broad, diffuse supercilium and longer tail. All records occurred during October.
Formerly all records were recorded under L. m. hafizi which changed by the law of priority to L. m. golzii.
BBRC RECORDS
1). 1971 Fair Isle No locality, dead, 30th October, now at National Museums of Scotland (NMSZ 2000.303).
(F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 65: 341; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 73: 519; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 94: 485; R. A. Broad, Scottish Birds 8: 195; BOURC (1980), Ibis 122: 567; BOURC (2002), Ibis 144: 181-184).
2). 1987 Isles of Scilly Barnaby Lane, St Agnes, 23rd October, photo.
(P. A. Dukes, Birding World 9 (2): 62; C. Bradshaw, Birding World 9 (5): 197, photos; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 97: 595, plates 313 & 350; Flood, Hudson & Thomas, 2007: plate 108).
3). 1991 Yorkshire Spurn, 6th to 14th October, trapped 6th October, photo.
(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 91: 501; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 94: 485).
