Wood-pigeon - 1949

Columba palumbus palumbus

Resident and common.  Dix considered it more numerous in the north-east than elsewhere; this is true to-day, on account of the more wooded nature of this part.  Flocks of winter immigrants are not large, the year 1935 being an exception when thousands were seen in mid-October near Lawrenny (H.A.Gilbert).  Probably breeds regularly Caldey (Bertram Lloyd).

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