"I had no idea what
kind of bird we were looking at, it was so weird," says ornithologist
Brynjúlfur Brynjúlfsson at the South East Iceland Bird Watching Centre. He is
the first person to have spotted a Dark-Sided Flycatcher (Muscicapa
sibirica) in Western Europe.
The species, according to
Wikipedia, breeds in South-East Siberia west to beyond Lake Baikai as well as
in Mongolia, China, North Korea and Japan.
Their wintering range
includes India, Bangladesh, southern China, Taiwan, Sumatra, Java, Borneo and
the Philippines. Vagrant birds have been previously recorded as far as Alaska
and Bermuda.
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