Spotted Crake - 1992 onwards

Porzana porzana - Occasional visitor

1993 - one heard Goodwick Moor, 14 April (MAP)

1995 - one called at Marloes Mere 13-15 May (DJA, SB, JGr, SJS)

1997 - juvenile seen from the Creek hide, Teifi Marshes, 24 Aug (JG)

2003 -  A male called at Trefeiddan 17 May onwards into June, when it was thought to be disturbed by contractors.

2015 - One on Skomer on 10th Sept (JWM et al). This represented only the 3rd for the island and the 1st in 45 years. Accepted WRP.

Records extracted from the Pembrokeshire Bird Reports

Spotted Crake - 1949

Porzana porzana

Rare autumn visitor.  One Trewellwell, 10 Jan 1910 (Dr Mills). One possibly heard Dowrog, May 1923 (O.Wynn). One shot St Davids, undated (B.Lloyd). H.A.Gilbert records two Solva, 26 Oct 1928 and Dowrog 27 Oct 1928.  One, Goodwick, winter 1945 (P.J.Panting).  One caught and ringed Skomer 15 Sept 1946 by West Wales Field Society.

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

Spotted Crake - 1994

Occasional visitor. Not recorded in November and December and from February to April

Mathew (1894) considered it an "occasional visitor", listing Goodwick, Tenby and Stackpole as localities where it had occurred, but the only date he quoted was October 1888. Lockley et al. (1949) classified it as a "rare autumn visitor" with records from Solva in October 1928, Dowrog on 27 October 1928 and Skomer on 15 September 1946. They also noted singles from Trewellwell on 10 January 1910, Dowrog in May 1923 and Goodwick in the winter of 1945.

Spotted Crakes have since been heard calling from suitable breeding habitat such as the Ritec, Newgale Marsh and Dowrog between May and July in several years, but there is no evidence that they have nested. They have also been recorded on about twenty occasions between August and October and twice in January, occurrences distributed roughly equally between the offshore islands and the mainland.

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

Spotted Crake - 1894

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

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