Buff-bellied Pipit (Anthus rubescens), 1st for Spain
On 27.9.2011, a Buff-bellied Pipit ( Anthus rubescens ) was found at Parque de Bens, Western A Coruña city, Galicia, in NW Spain (Cosme Damián Romai). The news spread through rarebirdspain yahoogroups where the author published three photos here , here and here . Soon the bird, one of the first transatlantic passerine vagrants recorded in mainland Spain caused expectation and was seen and photographed by other observers: Fernando Pereira's blog here or Pablo Gutiérrez blog here . The bird remained on 28.9.2011 (Daniel López Velasco, Nacho Castelao, Pablo Fernández García and Cosme Damián Romai; Ricardo Hevia and José Miguel Alonso later) whilst on 29.9.2011 some video footage was obtained and reproduced here (Jose R. Bugallo, David Díaz, David Martínez y David Calleja), courtesy of David Calleja. The Buff-bellied pipit is a rare vagrant to Europe from its American breeding grounds (see enclosed map from Avibase ). Interestingly, the day previous to the Galician arrival there