Greenish Warbler - accepted records 1990-2018

Phylloscopus trochiloides - ELOR GWYRDD - Very rare autumn visitor.

British Birds Rarities Committee

1990 Dyfed Skomer, 19th June (C.J.Orsman, H.A.Williams).
1996 Pembrokeshire Skomer, 27th June (T.P.Drew, J.Hayden, L.Smith et al.).
1997 Pembrokeshire Skokholm, 23rd June (G.V.F.Thompson et al.).

2003 - Pembrokeshire Skokholm, 4th-5th June (G.Morgan et al.) European and west Siberian race P. t. viridanus.

2012 - Very rare autumn visitor. One on Skomer on 8th Sept. (DB).

2013 - The only accepted record was of one on Skokholm on 18th June (GE, RB), the sixth record for the island'

2014 - Single Skomer on 7th June (EMS). Tenth record for the county, three have previously been recorded on Skomer and six on Skokholm.

2015 - Singles on Skomer on 12th June and 23rd July (EMS). 5th & 6th island records.

2017 - A single at Martins Haven, Deer Park on 25th Sept (DJA, BS). Accepted by WRP as the first mainland record in Pembrokeshire.

Records since 2012 extracted from the Pembrokeshire Bird Reports

Greenish Warbler - 1994

Vagrant

A Russian species that has colonised Poland and Scandinavia in recent years and has become an annual migrant to Britain (Cramp 1992), resulting in singles at Skokholm on 31 August 1960, 30-31 August 1961 and 31 August 1976 and at Skomer on 19 June 1990.

Donovan J.W. & Rees G.H (1994), Birds of Pembrokeshire