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Reporting Sightings and the Cork Bird Report
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Thrushes and Wheatears Turdidae (29) (Banner Photos: Song Thrush by Jim Wilson) White's Thrush Zoothera dauma 1842 Near Bandon, shot, 5th December, now at Trinity College, Dublin. (Thompson I:128) This is the first Irish Record. Distribution: It breeds in wet coniferous taiga, mainly in eastern Asia and Siberia. Northern races are strongly migratory, with most birds moving to southeastern Asia during the winter. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe. Siberian Thrush Zoothera sibirica 1985 Cape Clear Island, immature female, 18th October. This is the first Irish Record. Distribution: breeds in taiga in Siberia. It is strongly migratory, with most birds moving to southeastern Asia during the winter. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe. Hermit Thrush Catharus guttatus 2006 Cape Clear Island, first-winter, 19th and 20th October. Second
county and Irish record. Distribution: Breeds in northern and central/west North America
and winters in southern North America. (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) 2008 Dirk Bay, Galley Head, first-year, 11th October. Distribution: Breeds across northern North America and winters in Central America and in parts of western South America. (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus minimus 2005 Cape Clear Island, 29th October to 6th November. Distribution: Breeds across northern North America and winters in northern South America. (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) Swainson's Thrush/Grey-cheeked Thrush Catharus
minimus/ustulatus 2007 Cape Clear Island, 15th October. Distribution: See species accounts above. Ring Ouzel Turdus torquatus Blackbird Turdus merula Fieldfare Turdus pilaris Distribution: a widespread breeder in central and northern Europe,
but winters Song Thrush Turdus philomelos Redwing Turdus iliacus Distribution: a widespread breeder in northern Europe, but winters across much of the continent, which constitutes >50% of its global wintering range. (Birdlife international) Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus American Robin Turdus migratorius 1977 Glengarriff, 16th January. Distribution: Resident across central North America migratory further north and found only in winter in the extreme south of North America. (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin Cercotrichas galactotes 1968 Cape Clear Island, 20th April. Distribution: a widespread but patchily distributed summer visitor to southernmost Europe, which accounts for less than half of its global breeding range. (Birdlife International) Red-flanked Blue-tail Tarsiger cyanurus 2012 Galley Head, 26th March. Distribution: a predominantly Asian distribution, but its breeding range also extends into the boreal zone of European Russia and Finland. (Birdlife International) Robin Erithacus rubecula Thrush Nightingale Luscinia luscinia 1999 Cape Clear Island, first-winter, trapped, 15th October. Distribution: a widespread summer visitor to north-eastern Europe, which constitutes >50% of its global breeding range. (Birdlife International) Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos 2014 Cape Clear, one on the 11th October. Distribution: a widespread summer visitor to southern and western Europe, which constitutes >50% of its global breeding range. Breeds in the UK. (Birdlife International) Bluethroat Luscinia svecica 2013 Mizen head, one on the 3rd October. Distribution: a widespread breeder across much of northern Europe, and occurs more patchily farther south, with Europe accounting for less than a quarter of its global breeding range. (Birdlife International) Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros Distribution: a widespread breeder across much of Europe, which accounts for less than half of its global breeding range. Rare breeder in the UK. (Birdlife International) Redstart Phoenicurus phoenicurus Distribution: a widespread summer visitor to Europe, which constitutes >50% of its global breeding range. A rare breeding species in Ireland but not known to breed in county Cork. (Birdlife International) Whinchat Saxicola rubetra Stonechat Saxicola torquata An 'Eastern Stonechat' (maurus/stejnegeri) was seen at Galley
HEad on the 8th October 2010. Siberian Stonechat Saxicola maura Four county records up to 2010. Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina 1992 Mizen Head, 10th to 17th October. Distribution: a widespread summer visitor to south-eastern Europe, which accounts for less than a quarter of its global breeding range. (Birdlife International) Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe Pied Wheatear Oenanthe pleschanka 1980 Knockadoon Head, first-winter male, 8th to 16th November, trapped 9th November. Distribution: a widespread summer visitor to much of south-eastern Europe, which accounts for less than a quarter of its global breeding range. (Birdlife International) Black-eared Wheatear Oenanthe hispanica 1992 Cape Clear Island, first-year male, 26th to 27th May, O. h. hispanica. Distribution: a widespread summer visitor to southern Europe, which constitutes >50% of its global breeding range. (Birdlife International) Desert Wheatear Oenanthe deserti 1995 Garryvoe, first-winter male, 26th to 27th November. Distribution: breeds in Azerbaijan and Turkey, with Europe accounting
for a tiny proportion of its global breeding range. (Birdlife International)
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