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Monday
Jan302017

Taiga Bean Goose - all records

Anser fabilis

1997 - Five at Trefaiddan, St Davids on 27 December.

2006 - One of the race fabalis (Taiga Bean Goose) at Skomer on 2nd November. It flew south, calling, low over the Central Fields at first light. (JGB).

Sunday
Sep082013

Bean Goose - 1949

Anser fabilis fabilis

Mathew saw seven or eight near Stone Hall in the severe winter of 1880.  There are no recent records although W.F.Bentley states that it is a winter visitor in small numbers.

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

Thursday
Dec152011

Bean Goose - 1994

Rare visitor

The only records for Bean Goose are as follows: seven or eight near Stone Hall in the winter of 1880 (Mathew 1894), 12 (one shot) at Dowrog on 22 April 1949, nine at East Hook on 2 November 1978 and one on Skomer from 5 to 8 May 1987.

Monday
Jan102011

Bean Goose - 1894

Species account from M Mathew, 1894, "The Birds of Pembrokeshire and its islands"

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