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Titre :	Taiga Flycatcher in East Yorkshire: new to Britain
Auteurs :	P. Andrew Lassey, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	British Birds (98(10) OCT 2005)
Article en page(s) :	542-545
Résumé :	A first-summer male Taiga Flycatcher Ficedula albicilla at Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire, on 26th April 2003 represented the first record for Britain and only the third or fourth in Europe to the west of the breeding range. A second bird, in first-winter plumage, was discovered at Sandgarth, Shetland, on 12th October 2003. This individual was trapped and the identification confirmed in the hand; an account of the Shetland bird is presented in a subsequent article. The occurrence of two individuals in Britain in 2003 suggests that others may have been overlooked in the past, when Taiga Flycatcher was treated as a subspecies of Red-breasted Flycatcher F parva, which it closely resembles. A brief review of identification criteria likely to be of use in the separation of these two species is presented.

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