Stone Curlew - 1994

Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 6:02PM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1994 BoP, Stone-curlew

Rare visitor

One Stone Curlew was shot at St David's in January 1891 (Mathew 1894).  Other records have been at Skokholm, with one seen on 25 April 1940 (Lockley et al 1949), another on 7 July 1982 and again on 21 August 1991.

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

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