Red-Backed Shrike - 1949 status
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 at 8:32AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Red-backed Shrike

Lanius collurio collurio

Irregular visitor.  Methew records nests at Black Rock (annually) and at Tenby (21 June 1887).  Has bred Pembroke 1924, Angle 1908.  Also at Pembroke Dock (G.Haines), Orielton (C.W.Macworth-Praed) and in the north of the count (T.Ground B.Birds XVIII 232).  Recorded occasionally Skokholm.

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

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