Kingfisher - 1949 status

Alcedo atthis ispida

Resident.  Twice Skokholm, 17 Aug 1936 and 16 July 1948.  Seen on coastal beaches in winter.  Many died in the winter of 1946-47 and it has been very scarce since.

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