Bonaparte's Gull - 1994

Monday, December 19, 2011 at 9:38AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1994 BoP, Bonaparte's Gull

Vagrant

One was shot at Solva in the spring of 1888 (Lockley et al 1949).  Mathew (1894) seems not to have been aware of this species, nor indeed of the bird collection of H.W.Evans of Solva in whose hands it remained.

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

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