White-winged Black Tern - all records
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 8:59PM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in GHR, White-winged Black Tern, vagrant

Chlidonias leucopterus - Rare visitor.

The closest breeding areas of the White-winged Black Tern are in Eastern Europe.  Winter quarters are in southern Africa.

1973 - The first to be recorded in Pembrokeshire was located by Stuart Devonald, a juvenile at the Gann on the 31 August.

1976 - Single juveniles were then recorded at Llys y fran Reservoir on the 16 to 28 October

1986 - single juvenile at Llanstadwell on the 26 August

1990 - Single adult at Skokholm on the 3 September

1997 - single adult at Strumble Head on 15 October

1999 - single juvenile at Strumble Head on the 1 August

2016 - an adult at Penberry Reservoir, St. David’s 25th – 26th May

 

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