Leach's Fork-tailed Petrel - 1949
Sunday, September 15, 2013 at 9:12AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Leach's Petrel

Oceanodroma leucorrhoa leucorrhoa

Mathew rather surprisingly described it as a not very rare visitor in stormy weather.  He gives no definite records, and only one has been recorded in the fifty years, picked up at Pembroke Dock, 12 Nov 1931, and sent to the National Museum of Wales.

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

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