Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at 12:45PM Scarce - 11 records, only 1 since 2000.
Source: Pembrokeshire Bird List (2018 update) edited by Mike Young-Powell on behalf of the Pembrokeshire Bird Group.
Rarity, WRP in Common Crane Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 8:23AM Grus grus grus
Mathew records one caught on a farm near Solva, 28 April 1893, and which had been present some days before; it was preserved in the collection of the late H.W.Evans.
R.M.Lockley, G.C.S.Ingram, H.M.Salmon, 1949, The Birds of Pembrokeshire, The West Wales Field Society
Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 5:46PM Rare visitor
Cranes migrate along the western European seaboard, a few wandering off course to Britain, mostly to the east coast of England, rarely as far west as Pembrokeshire. Mathew (1894) provides just one record, an adult captured near Solva on 28 April 1893 and regarded by H.W. Evans as "the prize in his collection of British birds". The next was one at Marloes on 30 October 1960 followed by single birds in 1971 at Tiers Cross (9 April), Skomer (10 April) and Llawhaden (11-26 April), which despite its solitary state frequently indulged in its dancing display, at Nevem Estuary and Moylgrove from 5 to 16 December 1978 and at the Gann on 3 October 1986.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 8:30AM Species account from M Mathew, 1894, "The Birds of Pembrokeshire and its islands"
