Oceanodroma leucorhoa – Pedryn-Drycin Gynffon Fforchog – Probably a regular visitor in variable numbers. Not recorded in January, March, April or August.
Leach’s Petrel – records since 2000
Records since 2000 extracted from the Pembrokeshire Bird Reports
Leach’s Petrel – 2012
Oceanodroma leucorhoa – Pedryn-Drycin Gynffon Fforchog – Probably a regular visitor in variable numbers. Not recorded in January, March, April or August. Breeds around the North Atlantic and North Pacific, migrating south to winter in regions of tropical convergences. Summer Leach’s Petrels have been noted visiting Storm Petrel breeding colonies at Skokholm, occasionally singing, as […]
Leach’s Petrel – 1994
Oceanodroma leucorhoa – Pedryn-Drycin Gynffon Fforchog – Probably a regular visitor in variable numbers. Not recorded in January, March, April or August. Mathew (1894) stated that “it is not very rare as a visitor in stormy weather”. Lockley et al. (1949) expressed surprise at this statement for they knew of only one occurrence “in the last fifty […]
Leach’s Fork-tailed Petrel – 1949
Species account from the Birds of Pembrokeshire, 1949, by Lockley, Ingram and Salmon.
Leach’s Petrel – 1894
Species account from the 1894 ‘Birds of Pembrokeshire and its Islands’ by Rev M A Mathew
Pembrokeshire Avifauna 