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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quercus" data-source="post: 1676345" data-attributes="member: 64248">In a word.. no!. The official Sark list... as supplied by La Societe Sercquiaise (The body that oversees all things cultural, environmental and historical here) is marked as "Information from Frank Rountree's list 1974. Written.... 2006".I'm assuming that a lot of the rarities were discovered as part of the ringing, as I've said elsewhere, looking for things here is going to be a needle in a haystack job... there's so much scrubby thorny, impenitrable ground.. and miles of thick hedgerows... a wee bird could be hiding anywhere.The highlights of Philip Guille's work was a Siberian blue Robin in 1975(see British birds vol70, No.9 p361-365 sept 1977) and Red-flanked Blue-tail.The list has Icterine warbler, Red-breated Flycatcher and Yellow browed warbler as "PM", passage migrants.And the "A" accidentals include:- Little Bittern, Purple Heron, Glossy ibis, Black kite, White stork, White-tailed eagle, Alpine swift, Richard's pipit, Thrush nightingale, Bluethroat, Great reed warbler, Aquatic warbler, Melodous warbler, Subalpine warbler, Greenish warbler, Bonelli's warbler, Raddes's warbler, Dusky warbler, Pallas's warbler, Woodchat shrike, Nutcracker, Red headed Bunting, and Ortolan bunting.I can only find two American species on the list, Pectoral sandpiper and Rose breasted gosbeak!</blockquote>