The autumn of 2016 witnessed an unprecedented westward influx of Siberian Accentors Prunella montanella from their breeding areas. Previously, there had been no more than five records per year in Europe, but during the autumn and winter of 2016/17 as many as 231 individuals turned up. That autumn, observers in western and northern Europe also witnessed an exceptional influx of rare passerines from
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