Rose-coloured Starling - 1949 status

Thursday, July 25, 2013 at 10:12AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Rose-coloured Starling

Pastor roseus (Sturnus roseus)

One seen near Gateholm, 19 June 1939 (B.Birds XXXI, 149).  One on 16 Oct 1946 at Marloes (RML).  Mathew gives two rather vague records from St Florence and Castlemartin.

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

Article originally appeared on Birds in Pembrokeshire (http://pembsbirds.squarespace.com/).