British Song Thrush - 1949 status

Sunday, August 11, 2013 at 8:55AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Song Thrush

Turdus ericetorum ericetorum

Common resident, but not numerous.  Abundant on coast at onset of cold weather in winter which, if persistent, causes many deaths.

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/).