Western Black-eared Wheatear

Muscicapidae: Chats, Old World Flycatchers

Western Black-eared Wheatear Oenanthe hispanica (0, 2)

STATUS: Extremely rare. BBRC.

1). 1997 Wingletang Down, St Agnes, male, 5th to 6th May, photo, O. h. hispanica.

(Birding World 10 (5): 171, photo; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 91: 502; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 96: 589; Flood, Hudson & Thomas, 2007: plate 111).

2). 2010 Garrison, St Mary's, first-winter female, 9th to 13th October, photo, O. h. hispanica.

(Birding World 23 (10): 427, photo; Birding World 23 (12): 538, photo; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 104: 615, plate 332; P. St Pierre, Isles of Scilly Bird and Natural History Review 2010: 110-111).