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The scarlet tanager is Mr Nash's 435th species spotted in Britain.

"Never before seen in Yorkshire, the first-winter male scarlet tanager is just the eighth British record and the first since 2014," it said.

The report of the scarlet tanager in Shelf, near Halifax, is believed to be the first time one of the birds has been sighted in Yorkshire.

The scarlet tanager was Mr King's 478th species spotted in the UK, he added.

According to the American Bird Conservancy, the scarlet tanager's song is often described as "like a robin with a cold".