House Martin - 1894

Saturday, December 18, 2010 at 8:57AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in House Martin, Mathew, hirundine, passerine, summer

Martin Chelidon urbica

A common summer visitor.

As Mr. Dix also observed in his district, the Martins were not so numerous with us as the Swallows, but we generally had a few pairs nesting about the house. They arrived about a fortnight after the Swallows, and departed again in detachments in September and October.

Mathew M.A. 1894, Birds of Pembrokeshire and it's Islands

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