Blue Rock Thrush

Muscicapidae: Chats, Old World Flycatchers

Blue Rock Thrush Monticola solitarius (0, 2)

STATUS: Extremely rare. BBRC.

1). 1999 Porthloo, St Mary's, male, 14th to 15th October, photo.

(M. S. Scott, Birding World 12 (10): 412-413, photos; Birding World 12 (12): 491, photo; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 93: 551, plate 330; Isles of Scilly Bird Report 1999: photo; Flood, Hudson & Thomas, 2007: plate 113).

2). 2019 Garrison to Giant's Castle, 1CY, female, 22nd September to 28th October, photo.

(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 113: 636, plate 385; R. Hathway, Isles of Scilly Bird and Natural History Review 2019: 179-181, photo).