Egyptian Vulture has been accepted onto Category A of the Irish checklist following on the idea of a subadult seen in a number of counties between July 2021 and May 2022.
The determination was introduced within the 2021 Irish Rare Bird Report within the latest situation of Irish Birds.
First seen close to Dunfanaghy New Lake, Co Donegal, on 14-15 July, the vulture was intermittent in its appearances, it was later seen in Co Mayo on two dates in August after which north-west of Athlone, Co Roscommon, on the finish of December. It was finally twitchable on this final space in February-March 2022, with the ultimate confirmed sightings in early May. Intriguingly, unconfirmed experiences from the identical common space adopted in November 2022 and February 2023.
Prior to all of those sightings, the identical hen had arrived on Tresco, Isles of Scilly, on the morning of 14 June, spending the night time on the island earlier than disappearing the next morning. It now stays to be seen whether or not the BOURC follows the IRBC’s lead and provides the species to Category A of the British checklist. The species at present websites on Categories B, D and E in Britain.
Egyptian Vulture, Dunfanaghy New Lake, Donegal (Jay Hutchins).
The determination will certainly reignite dialogue surrounding the well-known Booted Eagle which toured Britain and Ireland between March 1999 and June 2000. In 2002 it was introduced that the hen can be added to Category D of each the British and Irish lists, on the time suggesting that affordable doubt existed that it might be a wild hen.
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