Shoveler - 1980s winter

Sunday, October 9, 2011 at 9:02PM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1980s BTO winter atlas, GHR, Shoveler

The BTO winter atlas showed that Shovelers were present in fresh water and estuarine10km squares during the winters of 1981-82, 1982-82 and 1983-84.

The darkest colour for each 10km square represents 8-34 birds seen in a day, Marloes Mere being the site that regularly held the largest numbers.

Graham Rees 

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