Yesterday I got a call from Lorraine McGill on Carcass Island to say that her husband Rob had found a strange bird in the hut at the airstrip, unfortunately it was found dead. Lorraine had looked in one of her bird books and had identified it as a White Banded Mockingbird Mimus Triurus.

Today I received the corpse of the bird and Lorraine was correct in her identification of the bird as a White Banded Mockingbird Mimus Triurus. This represents the first record of this species in the Falkland Islands.