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Setophaga striata · Blackpoll Warbler

id	68620
datum	25 t/m 27 oktober 2020: 3 dagen
gemeente	Texel (NH)
locatie	De Cocksdorp (begraafplaats)
coördinaten	N 53,15325 O 4,8660
aantal, kleed	1
soort waarneming	veldwaarneming
status	Aanvaard, gepubliceerd in jaarverslag CDNA
waarnemer(s)	H Zevenhuizen et al
opmerkingen	photographed, sound-recorded, videoed (Dutch Birding 42: 464, plate 636-638, 2020). Texel is arguably the rare migrant hotspot but this was only the third Nearctic passerine to be found on the island after a Red-eyed Vireo Vireo olivaceus in 2018 and a much-debated Yellow-headed Blackbird Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus in 1982. With on average nearly one record a year (48 records in 1968-2017), Blackpoll Warbler is one of the most regularly recorded American passerines in Britain (Holt & the Rarities Committee 2018). In the Netherlands, however, Nearctic passerines remain thin on the ground and until 2019 American warblers were even restricted to just two Myrtle Warblers S coronata and a single Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis. Perhaps this Blackpoll was therefore a little less expected than it might seem? The total number of Nearctic passerines for the Netherlands up to 2020 stands at 32 records of 14 species, with Red-eyed Vireo (nine) and White-throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis (six) accounting for nearly half of these records.