Black Tern - 1949
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 8:25AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Black Tern

Chlidonias niger niger

Recorded by Mathew as "seen occasionally" but he gives no dates, and only mentions it as seen as Castlemartin and shot at Fishguard.  The only recent records is of an immature bird shot at St Davids, Sept 1904 (Bertram Lloyd)

R.M.Lockley, G.C.S.Ingram, H.M.Salmon, 1949, The Birds of Pembrokeshire, The West Wales Field Society

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