Arctic Tern - 1949
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 9:05AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Arctic Tern

Sterna macrura

It is no longer, as in Mathew's day, "seen commonly on passage in the spring and autumn".  Once recorded Skokholm, 8 June 1938. One seen Goodwick, 13 Aug 1935 (Bertram Lloyd). During the widespread inshore passage of this species at the end of april 1947, about twenty were seen over Dale beach (J.F. and P.Garnett)

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

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