Snow Bunting - 1949 status

Tuesday, July 30, 2013 at 9:08AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Snow Bunting

Plectrophenax nivalis nivalis

Recorded near Fishguard, 1859; at Smalls Lighthouse, 17 Oct 1884.  Regular visitor Skokholm, Oct - Nov, but only once seen in spring.  Others records: Solva Oct 1894, Feb 1912, Boulston 1906, Feb 1911. St Ann's Head 17 April 1914.

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

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