Jackdaw - 1949 status
Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 10:07AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Jackdaw

Corvus mondedula spermolegus

Common resident, except at Skokholm and Grassholm, where only a spring migrat at same time as Rook.  Breeds on cliffs and in ruins, etc, inland.  A writer in the Field, 2 June, 1860, noted that it bred in burrows at Skomer; it still dows this - in sea-bird burrows on the edge of the cliffs.

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

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