Eastern Black-eared Wheatear

Muscicapidae: Chats, Old World Flycatchers

Eastern Black-eared Wheatear Oenanthe melanoleuca (0, 2)

STATUS: Extremely rare. BBRC.

1). 1998 Castle Down, Tresco, male, 18th to 23rd May, photo, O. h. melanoleuca.

(Birding World 11 (5): 171, photo; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 93: 549; Isles of Scilly Bird Report 1998: photo; Flood, Hudson & Thomas, 2007: plate 111).

2). 2009 Porth Askin, St Agnes, first-summer male, 2nd to 3rd June, photo, O. h. melanoleuca.

(Birding World 22 (6): 227, photo; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 103: 620, plate 342; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 104: 615, corr.; W. H. Wagstaff, Isles of Scilly Bird and Natural History Review 2009: 128).