Common Buzzard - 1949 status

Buteo buteo buteo

Probably not less than 120 pairs breeding in the county, on the coast, islands, and inland.  In Mathew's day there were believed to be only half a dozen pairs, of which one pair was found by Howard Saunders on the north side of Dinas Head.

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