Black Redstart - 1949
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 at 8:34AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Black Redstart

Phoenicurus ochrurus gibraltarensis

Regular winter visitor, chiefly from Sept to Nov and March-April, but also seen Dec, Jan, and Feb.  Principally on the islands and in sheltered bays along the whole coast.  Fifty at Skokholm at one time during March 1948.

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

 

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