Yellowhammer - 1894

Saturday, December 18, 2010 at 9:25AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in Bunting, Mathew, Yellowhammer, passerine, resident

Emberiza citrinella

Resident.

One of our most abundant small birds. They are believed by the Welsh people to encourage snakes to enter their nests to devour the young birds, and are on this account held by them in great aversion. In other parts of the world this species has evil things reported of it in the folk-lore, and is much persecuted.

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

Article originally appeared on Birds in Pembrokeshire (http://pembsbirds.squarespace.com/).