Common Snipe - 1949
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 5:42PM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Snipe

Capella gallinago gallinago

Resident on suitable moors and mountain marshes.  Numerous arrivals in autumn and winter.  A regular visitor and passage migrant on the islands, and occasionally breeds on Skomer, Skokholm and Ramsey.

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

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