Red-breasted Goose - 1994

Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 10:01AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1994 BoP, Red-breasted Goose

Vagrant

This attractive goose is widely kept in captivity, wandering escapes obscuring the occurrence of wild birds. One at Milford Haven on 18 January 1935 (Lockley etal. 1949) is included by Witherby et. al. (1940) in a list of presumed genuine vagrants.

Donovan J.W. & Rees G.H (1994), Birds of Pembrokeshire

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