Moussier's Redstart
Phoenicurus moussieri (Olphe-Galliard, 1852) (0, 1)
Photo © By Gary L. Clark - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45230180
STATUS
Morocco to north-east Libya. Monotypic.
OVERVIEW
This North African vagrant had already reached Italy, Malta and Greece, so posed no problem to BOURC in accepting this as the first for Britain.
BBRC RECORD
1). 1988 Pembrokeshire Dinas Head, male, 24th April, photo.
(M. Barrett, Birding World 1: 160-161, photos; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 82: 540; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 83: 475; M. Barrett, British Birds 85: 108-111, plates 46-49; BOURC (1991), Ibis 133: 219).
