British Robin - 1949 status

Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 8:34AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Robin

Erithacus rubecula melophilus

Common resident.  To the islands a winter visitor and autumn passage migrant.  Bred Skokholm, 1939-40.  Ringed Robins return to winter on Skokholm.

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/).