Stone Curlew - 2000 onwards

Burhinus oedicnemus Rare visitor.

Very scarce - four previous records.

2003 - One, Skokholm 18 July (TT) 

2019 - One Skokholm 16 July

Records from the Pembrokeshire Bird Report 

NB A first year bird on the Teifi Estuary on 13 May 1997 now gets a Pembrokeshire mention due to a change in the county boundary.

Stone Curlew - 1949

Burhinus oedicnemus oedicnemus

Mathew records one shot at St Davids. Jan 1891.  One seen Skokholm 25 April 1940 (R.M.L.)

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

Stone Curlew - 1994

Rare visitor

One Stone Curlew was shot at St David's in January 1891 (Mathew 1894).  Other records have been at Skokholm, with one seen on 25 April 1940 (Lockley et al 1949), another on 7 July 1982 and again on 21 August 1991.

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

Stone Curlew - 1894

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

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