Barnacle Goose - 1949
Sunday, September 8, 2013 at 8:42AM
Pembrokeshire Avifauna committee in 1949 BoP, Barnacle Goose

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

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