Kingfisher - 1949 status

Sunday, August 25, 2013 at 8:42AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Kingfisher

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

Article originally appeared on Birds in Pembrokeshire (http://pembsbirds.squarespace.com/).