Lesser Redpoll - 1949 status

Carduelis flammea cabaret

Scarce resident in eastern half of county, in semi-wooded and hilly country, but rarely recorded from treeless districts, though accoxionally seen in winter Skokholm (R.M.L.).  One seen at St Davids, 8 August 1918 by Sir A Raikes (Bertram Lloyd).

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