Eastern influx (1 Viewer)

[Maffong]

With the current influx of Siberian Accentors most people seem to be overlooking the fact, that there seem to influxes of other eastern species aswell, even if not as incredible as that one.

I tried to compile the autumn records (Sep-Dec.) through tarsiger, here's what I get. Species in italics seem to have very strong years. Keep in mind, that for most species these numbers will still rise in 2016!

White's Thrush:
Norway (13-17th record)
Britain (90-95th record)
Netherlands (19th record)
2016: 12| 2015: 3| 2014: 3| 2013: 6

Black-throated Thrushes:
Britain (87-91st record)
Finland (56-57th record)
2016: 7| 2015: 6| 2014: 2| 2013: 11

Isabelline Wheatear:
Finland (29-31st record)
Sweden (20-22nd record)
Norway (11th record)
Britain (38-41st record)
Netherlands (11th record)
Denmark (3rd record)
France (? record)
2016: 15| 2015: 5| 2014: 6| 2013: 14

Red-flanked Bluetail:
Sweden (113-123th record)
Britain (143-175th record)
Norway (54-59th record)
Ireland (6-7th record)
Netherlands (26th record)
2016: 53| 2015: 31| 2014: 17| 2013: 33

Asian Desert Warbler:
Serbia (? record)
Sweden (16-17th record)
Turkey (10th record)
2016: 4| 2015: 2| 2014: 1| 2013: 3

Two-barred Greenish Warbler:
Britain (5th record)
France (2nd record)
2016: 2| 2015: 0| 2014: 0| 2013: 2

Arctic Warbler:
Netherlands (25-26th record)
France (16th record)
Portugal (2nd record)
2016: 4| 2015: 3| 2014: 3| 2013: 3

Eastern Crowned Warbler:
Britain (4th record)
Netherlands (2nd record)
Belgium (1st record)
9-11th WP records
2016: 3| 2015: 0| 2014: 1| 2013: 0

Radde's Warbler:
Norway (18th record)
Finland (26th record)
Slovakia (1st record)
Netherlands (37-40th record)
Poland (7-8th record)
Belgium (28th record)
France (16th record)
Sweden (87-91st record)
2016: 16| 2015: 17| 2014: 13| 2013: 18

Dusky Warbler:
Sweden (110-120th record)
Finland (96-100th record)
Lithuania (10th record)
Latvia (6th record)
Germany (?-??? record)
Romania (2nd record)
Poland (11-12th record)
Hungary (4-5th record)
Norway (39-40th record)
Turkey (4th record)
Denmark (50-52nd record)
Faroe Islands (1st record)
2016: 33| 2015: 46| 2014: 19| 2013: 35

Hume's Leaf Warbler peak yet to come:
Estonia (5th record)
Germany (? record)
Finland (72-74th record)
Sweden (80-85th record)
Netherlands (57-58th record)
Denmark (28-30th record)
Belgium (1 bird, ? record)
Norway (36th record)
2016: 18| 2015: 21| 2014: 23| 2013: 17

Pechora Pipit:
Norway (38-44th record)
Britain (112-114th record)
2016: 10| 2015: 10| 2014: 4| 2013: 4

Brown Shrike:
Britain (19-21st record)
2016: 3| 2015: 3| 2014: 2| 2013: 5

Isabelline Shrike:
Britain (102-104th record)
Germany (ca. 13-14th records)
Netherlands (2 birds, ? record)
Finland (10-11th record)
Sweden (17th record)
Denmark (? record)
Norway (16th record)
2016: 10| 2015: 6| 2014: 11| 2013: 8

Pine Bunting peak yet to come:
Britain (55-60th record)
Belgium (23rd record)
Germany (ca. 18th record)
Denmark (4th record)
Netherlands (37-38th record)
Sweden (1 bird)
Norway (27th record)
2016: 14| 2015: 6| 2014: 1| 2013: 2

Black-headed Bunting (very late in the year):
Netherlands (16th record)
Norway (28th record)
2016: 2| 2015: 1| 2014: 0| 2013: 0


Others:
Siberian Thrush (12th record for Britain)
Dusky Thrush (Norway, ? record)
Buff-bellied Pipit japonicus (5th for Sweden)
Pale-legged/Sakhalin Leaf-Warbler (2nd for WP and Britain)
presumed Mountain Chiffchaff (1st for Central Europe)
presumed Kamchatka Leaf Warbler (1st for WP and Norway)
Eastern Bonelli's Warbler (2 birds: 1st for Ireland, 9th for Britain)
Pallas`s Bunting (7th for Europe outside Russia, 1st for Sweden)
Black-faced Bunting (6th for Britain)

Conclusion: Keep an eye out especially for
Isabelline Wheatear
Orange-flanked Bush Robin
Eastern Crowned Warbler
Hume's Leaf Warbler
Pine Bunting

Maffong

 

[Nutcracker]

Orange-flanked Bush-robin:

Orange-flanked Bush Robin

WTF??! Please to delete that execrable renaming, and change it to Red-flanked Bluetail :storm: . . . and tell Tarsiger to do so too! :t:

 

[McMadd]

WTF??! Please to delete that execrable American renaming, and change it to Red-flanked Bluetail :storm: . . . and tell Tarsiger to do so too! :t:

We call our breeding birds what we like...get used to it

(but it is a sh1t name...)


Meanwhile...on topic...nice piece of work Maffong...I fancy more Asian Desert Warblers and some nice larks from further south...

 

[Nutcracker]

We call our breeding birds what we like...get used to it

No problems with Sinipyrstö :t:, it's the American habit of renaming our birds for us, and then demanding that everyone uses the American name rather than the English one :C

 

[timsg80]

Amazing stuff, what an extraordinary year! Surely there's a WP first out there somewhere?!!

 

[Phil Andrews]

Amazing stuff, what an extraordinary year! Surely there's a WP first out there somewhere?!!

Won't the St Agnes warbler be when it's been DNA'ed?

 

[Tor Olsen]

presumed Kamchatka Leaf Warbler (1st for WP and Norway)

That one turned out to be an Arctic after all. Also notice that tarsiger are more or less consequent in having incorrect numbers of records for Norway.

 

[Xenospiza]

Nice work. Some additions:
Pine Bunting, Netherlands: make that 4 records.
Daurian Shrike, Netherlands: only 1 (14th if accepted as this taxon)
Dusky Warbler, Netherlands: about 18 (records haven't been counted since 2011, because the average went over two a year), but it's probably ± 95th-113th.
Eastern Bonelli's in Ireland wasn't one.

 

[rollie_nl]

Hi Mr Xenospiza,
To correct your correction: there were in fact two Isabelline (Daurian) Shrikes this autumn. For this taxon, and if accepted, they would be the 14th-15th records (check www.dutchavifauna.nl for all historic records of Dutch rarities).

 

[Kratter]

WTF??! Please to delete that execrable American renaming, and change it to Red-flanked Bluetail :storm: . . . and tell Tarsiger to do so too! :t:

The NACC calls it Red-flanked Bluetail. Who calls it OFBR?

Andy

 

[Kratter]

BirdLife, HBW, H&M, Oriental Bird Club [hardly an American skew] = Orange-flanked Bush-robin
AOU, IOC, Clements = Red-flanked Bluetail
from Avibase

Andy

 

[njlarsen]

One of the less charming sides of Michael is that he thinks that everything he disagree with comes from the US o

Niels

 

[Nutcracker]

Ooops! Sorry, thought it did [embarrassed red smiley face] . . . where does it come from then??

 

[Xenospiza]

Hi Mr Xenospiza,
To correct your correction: there were in fact two Isabelline (Daurian) Shrikes this autumn. For this taxon, and if accepted, they would be the 14th-15th records (check www.dutchavifauna.nl for all historic records of Dutch rarities).

Oh yeah, the facebook one. Now I know why I couldn't find it back anywhere... I want the old search function of the DBAlerts back.

 

[Xenospiza]

Ooops! Sorry, thought it did [embarrassed red smiley face] . . . where does it come from then??

It is the Indian name (where Orange-flanked is logical to differentiate it from Rufous-belied).

 

[Kratter]

Ooops! Sorry, thought it did [embarrassed red smiley face] . . . where does it come from then??

As punishment I will draft a NACC proposal tomorrow to change name to Red-flanked Blue-Tail.
Andy