Calcarius lapponicus– Bras y Gogledd – Passage migrant. Not recorded in March, April and December
Photo – Lapland Bunting on Skokholm, 15 October 2014 © Richard Brown
Lapland Bunting – first and last dates
Table of dates of winter/spring records, and autumn migration, extracted from the Pembrokeshire Bird Reports since 1981.
Lapland Bunting – records
Calcarius lapponicus– BRAS Y GOGLEDD – Passage migrant. Photo – one of two Lapland Buntings which dropped in on North Plain, Skokholm on 27 March 2017. This was the first spring record since 1995, the first March record ever and only the fifth spring sighting for the Island. Richard Brown, Skokholm Blog. Earlier records are summarised in […]
Lapland Bunting – 1994
Calcarius lapponicus– Bras y Gogledd – Passage migrant. Not recorded in March, April and December The first birds recorded in Wales were two at Skokholm from 5 to 12 September 1936, followed by another one on 10 May 1948 (Lockley et al. 1949). Subsequently small numbers of Lapland Buntings have been recorded passing through Pembrokeshire […]
Lapland Bunting – 1949
Species account from the Birds of Pembrokeshire, 1949, by Lockley, Ingram and Salmon.
