Coal Tit - 1894

Sunday, September 26, 2010 at 9:45PM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in Coal Tit, Mathew, breeding, passerine

Parus britannicus

A common resident. Mr. Dix considered it more common than he had ever met with it in England, and in our locality it was certainly an abundant species. The nests we found were always lined with a thick welt of rabbit's fur.

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

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