Bee-eater - 1949 status
Saturday, August 24, 2013 at 11:54AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Bee-eater

Merops apiaster

Mathew records one killed near Johnston C.1854; and another picked up "on some high ground near the sea coast" without date.  Three seen perched on telephone wires near Milford Haven, 13 May 1896 (Field, 23 May 1896).  The only records for south Wales.

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

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