Ixobrychus minutus – Aderyn Bwn Leiaf – Rare visitor
Little Bittern – 2013
Ixobrychus minutus – Aderyn Bwn Leiaf – Rare visitor Little Bitterns breed through much of Europe but is a rare vagrant to Britain. The first early records come from Mathew (1894): an adult male at Merlin’s Bridge was trapped beneath the wheel of the Mill and became part of the Mathias collection, later donated to […]
Little Bittern – 1994
Ixobrychus minutus – Aderyn Bwn Leiaf – Rare visitor One was recorded, but no date was given, from Merlin’s Bridge by Mathew (1894), who also mentioned that one in the Cawdor collection at Stackpole had been procured in the county. Lockley et al. (1949) noted singles off the Pembrokeshire coast in October 1899, shot near Fishguard in about […]
Little Bittern – 1949
Species account from the Birds of Pembrokeshire, 1949, by Lockley, Ingram and Salmon.
Little Bittern – 1894
Species account from the 1894 ‘Birds of Pembrokeshire and its Islands’ by Rev M A Mathew