Rose-coloured Starling - 1994

Sturnus roseus

Rare visitor

Mathew (1894) noted Rose-coloured Starlings at St Lawrence and Castle Martin but gave no details. Lockley et al. (1949) recorded birds at Gateholm on 19 June 1937 and at Marloes on 16 October 1946.

Single birds were then recorded at Waterston on 2 January 1974, at Treginnis on 29 July 1975, at Flimston on 1 July 1984, at St David's from 4 November to 2 December 1986 and at Skomer on 28 September 1990.

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