Curlew Sandpiper - 1949
Friday, September 27, 2013 at 7:41AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Curlew Sandpiper

Calidris testacea

"Autumn visitor" according to Mathew.  Recent records: one shot, N Pembs, Sept 1894 (B.Birds XVIII 235); one shot, 5 Oct 1903 (J.Wynne); one Pembroke 9 Dec 1919 (Mills); one seen Terfeiddan 20-21 Sept 1930 (D.L.Lack)

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

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