Baillon's Crake - 1894
Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 11:10PM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in Baillon's Crake, Mathew, Rarity, rail
Porzana bailloni
Accidental ; only two on record.
Sir Hugh Owen has informed us that he saw two of the "Lesser Spotted Crake" on Goodwick Moor, in the autumn of 1869, and shot one of them. The bird " looked like a fieldmouse when swimming." He has since recognised his specimen in Yarrell as Baillon's Crake.
Mathew M.A. 1894, Birds of Pembrokeshire and it's Islands
Jack Donovan and I when compiling The Birds of Pembrokeshire (1994) considered this record too vague for this species to be accepted onto the County list.
Graham Rees
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