Birdwatchers flocked to a residential cu-de-sac after an ultra-rare species was spotted in Yorkshire for the first time. The bird is believed to be a scarlet tanager, which arrived in Shelf, near ...

They wrote: 'A short trip up to Halifax today was rewarded with some distant views of this first winter male Scarlet Tanager - a mega North American vagrant with just seven previous records here.

Some may have dull red mixed in the plumage or may lack orange tones, resembling quite closely immature female scarlet tanagers. First-year male: mixture of red and greenish yellow, sometimes ...