Greenland Falcon - 1949 status

Falco rusticolus candicans

Mathew records one shot at Stackpole "many years ago". and now in the British Museum

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

Gyrfalcon - 1994

Vagrant

One was shot at Stackpole prior to 1894 and preserved in the British Museum (Mathew 1894). The Museum have it recorded as a white-phase male owned by Earl Cawdor and later purchased from the Zoological Society (P. Colston pers. comm.). An immature captured alive at Boncath in March 1921 was presented to the London Zoological Society and died in June 1921 (C. Spence-Colby).

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

Greenland Falcon - 1894

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

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