White-crowned Wheatear
Oenanthe leucopyga (Brehm, CL, 1855) (0, 1)
Photo © By Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA - White-crowned wheatear, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38452055
STATUS
Africa and Eurasia. Polytypic.
OVERVIEW
First for Britain. This non-migratory species has previously wandered to the Atlantic coast of Morocco, southern Spain, Malta and Cyprus.
BBRC RECORD
1). 1982 Suffolk Kessingland, immature male, 1st or 2nd to 5th June, photo.
(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 78: 572; B. J. Brown, Suffolk Birds 1982: 64-65, photo; B. J. Brown, British Birds 79: 221-227, plates 121-126; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 79: 570, corr.; BOURC (1986), Ibis 128: 601).
