Eastern Grasshopper Warbler
Locustella naevia straminea Seebohm, 1881 (0, 1)
Photo © Dr. Raju Kasambe, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Sub-species
STATUS
Eastern European Russia to south-west, southern central Siberia, eastern Kazakhstan, western Mongolia and north-west China.
OVERVIEW
An individual trapped on Fair Isle was through DNA analysis identified to subspecific level, being the first for Britain of this smaller race from the Far East.
BBRC RECORD
1). 2012 Fair Isle Observatory, juvenile, trapped, 20th September, photo, DNA analysis.
(BOURC (2013), Ibis 156: 239-240; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 107: 623, plate 312; BOURC (2015), Ibis 157: 186-187; W. T. S. Miles & J. M. Collinson, British Birds 108: 231-236).
