Isles of Scilly: Fears rare songbird will never return to US

A uncommon American songbird that landed connected the Isles of Scilly volition ne'er marque it backmost home, an adept has said.

It is the archetypal clip the taxon has been spotted successful England and the 4th clip successful the UK.

Lucy McRobert, of the Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust, said "it volition astir apt ne'er marque it backmost again".

She added: "That instinct to migrate westbound to eastbound isn't truly there", and it would "probably effort and caput southbound again rather soon".

The young male, which is autochthonal to eastbound North America, is thought to person been migrating to South America erstwhile it got caught successful a storm.

Ms McRobert said the warbler, 1 of the passerine order, oregon perching birds, was lone capable to marque the travel from westbound to east, not successful the different direction.

She said: "They onshore successful the UK and are incapable to marque it back."

The British Trust for Ornithology said erstwhile sightings successful the UK were connected St Kilda successful 2009, Fair Isle successful 1988 and Skomer successful 1961.

Bird watchers person travelled to the Isles of Scilly from arsenic acold arsenic Shetland and Holland to drawback a glimpse.