Night Heron (Black-crowned) - 2016

Scarce - 21 records, 6 since 2000 - these were:

In 2005 - one at Freshwater West in 16th April.

In 2006 - single adults at Dreen Hill at the end of March 2006, Upper Swanswell, Broadhaven (North) 20th March 2006 and at Esso on 21st March 2006.

In 2008 - One at Sealyham on 15th May.

In 2013 - An adult at the Ritec, Tenby on 25th May.

In 2019 - Two adults and an immature seen flying over Skokholm 30th May

Sources: Pembrokeshire Bird Reports (2005, 2006, 2008, 2013)

Pembrokeshire Birds List (2016 update) edited by Mike Young-Powell on behalf of the Pembrokeshire Bird Group.

Night Heron - 1949

Nycticorax nycticorax nycticorax

Mathew records one shot near Pembroke mill-pond c.1857, and another there 7 Dec 1868; also at Lord's Meadow Lamphey (no date) and three roosting in a tree within 30 yards of St Davids Cathedral, 1876, of which one was shot 12 May.  A male, now in the National Museum of Wales, from the collection of Dr Mills, was shot near Pembroke 14 Nov 1919.

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

Night Heron - 1994

Rare visitor. Recorded from March to May and from October to December

Mathew (1894) records single birds on four occasions, in 1857 and 1868 at Pembroke Mill Ponds and another undated at Lamphey, while one was shot from a group of three roosting near St David's Cathedral. Lockley et al. (1949) added a record of an immature shot near Pembroke in 1919. There were two subsequent records, an adult at Skomer from 12-16 May 1979 and an immature at Bosherston Pools on 11 October 1981, until between March and April 1990 when singles were recorded at Bosherston Pools, Westfield Pill, Rosemarket, St Ishmael's, Trecwn and Abermawr, with two at Skomer and four at Pentood. Some of these birds remained into April, and were part of a major invasion of south-west Britain following a period of strong southerly winds from southern Europe.

Night Heron - 1894

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

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