Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros (SG Gmelin, 1774)

Brean Cove, Somerset © Nigel Milbourne 2005

Rare, passage migrant & winter visitor.

  1. One, not aged or sexed, 27th Nov. 1913 (D. Carr).
  2. Two, male & female, not aged, winter 1926-27 (D. Carr).
  3. Two, male & female, not aged, winter 1929-30 (per B.W. Tucker).
  4. Present, autumn 1930 (D. Carr).
  5. Present, winter 1931-32 (D. Carr, per B.W. Tucker).
  6. Two, not aged or sexed, 18th Nov. 1967 (R. Angles).
  7. Up to three present, 24th Feb. 1980 (per P.J. Chadwick).
  8. Up to three present, 13th Oct. 1980 (per P.J. Chadwick).
  9. Up to three present, 14th Nov. 1981 (per P.J. Chadwick).
  10. One female, not aged, 27th March 1994 (A.H. Davis).
  11. One, not aged or sexed, 11th Dec. 1996 (per A.H. Davis).
  12. One, not aged or sexed, 22nd Nov. 2009 (J. Fiddock).

 

 

Bibliography (sources of information):

  1. Blaythwayt, Rev F.L. (ed.). Report on Somerset Birds, 1930. Somersetshire Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc.
  2. Blaythwayt, Rev F.L. (ed.). Report on Somerset Birds, 1931. Somersetshire Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc.
  3. Blaythwayt, Rev F.L. (ed.). Report on Somerset Birds, 1932. Somersetshire Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc.
  4. Chadwick, P.J. (ed.). Avon Bird Report, 1980. Avon Ornithological Group.
  5. Chadwick, P.J. (ed.). Avon Bird Report, 1981. Avon Ornithological Group in Proc. of the Bristol Naturalists’ Society 41:37-65
  6. Davis, A.H. (ed.) Avon Bird Report, 1994. Avon Ornithological Group.
  7. Davis, A.H. (ed.) Avon Bird Report, 1996. Avon Ornithological Group.
  8. Davis, H.H. (ed.). Bristol Bird Report, 1967. Bristol Naturalists’ Society.
  9. McGeoch, J.A. (ed.). Somerset Birds, 1967. Somersetshire Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc.
  10. Rose, Dr H.E. (ed.). Avon Bird Report, 2009. Avon Ornithological Group.

Last update: 2nd December 2024