Thursday
Sep192013
Pallas's Sand-grouse - 1949

Syrrhaptes paradoxus
A few reached the county in the irruptions of 1863 and 1888.
R.M.Lockley, G.C.S.Ingram, H.M.Salmon, 1949, The Birds of Pembrokeshire, The West Wales Field Society
Syrrhaptes paradoxus
A few reached the county in the irruptions of 1863 and 1888.
R.M.Lockley, G.C.S.Ingram, H.M.Salmon, 1949, The Birds of Pembrokeshire, The West Wales Field Society
Vagrant
Matthew (1984) noted one Pallas's Sandgrouse shot at Haverfordwest on 8 February 1864, one shot in Pembrokeshire in the spring of 1870, and another shot at Ambleston on 28 May 1888. This latter record was during a year when there was an invasion of Pallas's Sandgrouse, and they were widespread in Britain.
Species account from M Mathew, 1894, "The Birds of Pembrokeshire and its islands"