Mistle Thrush - 1949 status

Sunday, August 11, 2013 at 8:53AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Mistle Thrush

Turdus viscivorus viscivorus

Common resident.  rare on islands except Caldey where it breeds.  Has bred Ramsey.  Almost wiped out by winter of 1946/7, but breeding very sparsely 1948.

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/).