White-throated Robin - 1994
Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 3:49PM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1994 BoP, Rarity, White-throated Robin

Vagrant

A female at Skokholm on 27-30 May 1990 (M. Betts, J.W. Donovan et al. ), a vagrant from a breeding area extending from southern Turkey to Iran and Kirgiz, was the first recorded in Wales and only the second in Britain, the first having been seen at the Calf of Man in June 1983.

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

 

Photograph of the Skokholm white-throated robin by Jack Donovan - this is a small part of the original slide.

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