White-rumped Sandpiper - 1994

Friday, December 16, 2011 at 2:16PM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1994 BoP, White-rumped Sandpiper

Vagrant

One at the Gann on 20 September 1977 (R.C. Price) and another at the Teifi Esutary on 5 August 1991 (J.Green) are the only Pembrokeshire records of this vagrant, which is the third most frequently recorded transatlantic wader in Britain as a whole (Colston et al. 1991).

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

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