Bonelli's Warbler - 1949 status
Friday, August 9, 2013 at 7:43AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Western Bonelli's Warbler

Phylloscopus bonelli ?sub sp.

A female was trapped at Slokholm on 31 August 1948.  It was sent to the Yorkshire Museum for identification by R Wagstaffe.  This is a new species for the British Bird List.  Although breeding in south and east France, it rarely waders northwards.

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

 

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