Barnacle Goose - 1949

Branta leucopsis

Mathew records it as a winter visitor which generally arrived at Goodwick Sands about 1st October.  Also recorded from Orielton, 1855 and 1877; and from St David's Dec 1893.  Seen passing at sea off Skokholm in winter.

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