Pink-footed Goose - 1949

Anser fabilis brachyrhynchus

Mathrew includes it in brackets.  W.F.Bentley considers it a winter visitor in small flocks but there are no definite records.

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Bean Goose - 1949

Anser fabilis fabilis

Mathew saw seven or eight near Stone Hall in the severe winter of 1880.  There are no recent records although W.F.Bentley states that it is a winter visitor in small numbers.

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White-fronted Goose - 1949

Anser albifrons albifrons

Mathew records it from Goodwick, and one from Fishguard, Dec 1890.  One shot Angle, 5 Nov 1929 out of two feeding in a field (Bertram Lloyd).  Five Dale, 20 Dec 1938; passes over the islands on migration, sometimes landing for a short time (R.M.L.).  Two, shot Newgale (Feb 1949 and Dec 1948)

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Grey Lag-Goose - 1949

Anser anser anser

Two shot Pont Clew, Jan 1911 (W.F.B.).  One taken Orielton Decoy, 1914 (C.W.Mackworth-Praed).  One seen Milford Haven 13 Dec 1930 (H.A.Gilbert)

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Mute Swan - 1949

Cygnus olor

Mathew states their chief station was on the lake at Stackpole.  Breeding also in the salt water bays of the Cleddau river.  Common along the coasts and inside Milford Haven in winter.

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Bewick Swan - 1949

Cygnus bewickii bewickii

Mathew gives the following records: Trevithan Pool, 10 Nov 1887. five immatures near St Davids, 1887; an immature near St Davids Dec 1890, in which winter many swans were seen; and a herd of fifteen there Nove 1982, probably of this species.  one other in 1905.  No recent records.

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Whooper Swan - 1949

Cygnus cygnus

Mathew gives only undated records from Pantyphillip and Stackpole. H.A.Gilbert records it 24/28 Jan 1933, Cosheston - these birds were seen at Garron pill 29 Jan 1933, by R.M.L.  A pair at Dowrog Pool, 26 Jan 1948 (A.Howell)

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American Bittern - 1949

Botaurus lentiginosus

Mathew records on shot St Davids, Oct 1872.  A male was shot near Dale, 11 Dec 1905 (Dr Mills).  A third seen Ramsey Island, 19 Oct 1946 (R.M.L. & J.Davies)

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Bittern - 1949

Botaurus stellaris stellaris

Probably bred formerly (George Owen listed it as breeding in 1603) and occurs fairly regularly in winter to-day.  Tracy killed thirteen in one week of a very hard weather in 1842.  Mathew mentions it at GoodwicK, Tregwynt, Dale (2 Feb 1888).  O.Wynn records two (one shot), Dowrog 29 June 1900; one caught there March 1903; and one shot there winter 1915.  One shot St David's winter, 1908-9; and another seen Stackpole, 23 Jan 1909 by W.M.Congreve who was told that one or two apeared there every winter.  One shot, Dec 1927, at Marloes (R.M.L.)  Bertram Lloyd records one shot St Davids, Feb 1927 and 1929; one shot, Fishguard, Jan 1928 and 1929; and one shot, near Pembroke, Jan 1920.  Others on record are: one shot Solva Jan 1928, and one seen Tenby Marsh, Jan 1943 and Jan 1947.

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Little Bittern - 1949

Ixobrychus minutus minutus

Mathew records one captured beneath the mill-wheel, near Merlin's Bridge, Haverfordwest, and give two other, doubtful, records.  A male captured off the Pembrokeshire coast, Oct 1899, was received at the Cardiff Museum.  A stuffed speciment at afarm near Fishguard was shot about 1916. H.W.Evans recorded one taken near Solva many years ago.

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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.

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Little Egret - 1949

Egretta garzetta garzetta

One Nov 1909 Goodwick (in litt, Dr Mills, Haverfordwest).  One Dale 25 May 1938, may have been an escape.

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