Honey Buzzard - 1894

Sunday, December 19, 2010 at 2:31PM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in Honey Buzzard, Mathew, raptor, rare

Pernis apivoris

A rare occasional visitor, both in spring and autumn.

This is a tree-frequenting species, particularly fond of the beech, not likely to be often met with in Pembrokeshire, where we have only one record of its occurrence. We have been informed by Sir Hugh Owen that he saw a Honey-Buzzard at Creselly, in the year 1851.

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

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