Merops apiaster – Gwybedog y Gwenyn – Vagrant
Bee-eater – Records
Merops apiaster – Gwybedog y Gwenyn – Vagrant Records prior to 1993 are summarised in Bee-eater – 1994 1993 – One Skomer 23rd May (KJSD, SJS) and perhaps the same bird at St Nicholas 25th May (MC). These may also be the same bird as seen in Anglesey and Ceredigion in May and June. 1996 – […]
Bee-eater – 1994
Merops apiaster – Gwybedog y Gwenyn – Vagrant Mathew (1894) refers to two occurrences of single Bee-eaters, one picked up “long dead” at the coast, undated, and one killed at Johnston in about 1854. Lockley et al. (1949) added a record of three perched on telephone wires near Milford Haven on 13 May 1896. There have been two […]
Bee-eater – 1949
Species account from the Birds of Pembrokeshire, 1949, by Lockley, Ingram and Salmon.
Bee-eater – 1894
Species account from the 1894 ‘Birds of Pembrokeshire and its Islands’ by Rev M A Mathew