Swift - 1949 status

Saturday, August 24, 2013 at 11:51AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Swift

Apus apus apus

Numerous summer visitor, breeding in castles, chapels, and tall buildings, also coastal cliffs (Caldey).  considerable passage towards orth-west and Ireland during May.

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/).