Red-necked Grebe - 1894

Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 1:04PM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in Mathew, Red-necked Grebe, grebe

Podiceps grisegena

winter visitor; rare.

Mr. Dix was informed by Mr. Tracy that he had several times killed examples of the Red-Necked Grebe, the rarest member of the family in the south west of England, on the mill-pond at Pembroke. This species is not included by Mr. Mathias. 

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

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