White-breasted Barn Owl - 1949 status

Tyto alba alba

"A resident far from common . . . in cliffs both inland and on the coast".  Thus Mathew, and this is true to-day.  A pair recorded as nesting in a little cave on the Mewstone, Skomer, among the seabirds.  Has nested also St Margaret's and Caldey.  Visits the islands in winter.  Often caught in rabbit-traps.

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