Scolopax rusticola – CYFFYLOG – Winter visitor and passage migrant.
Woodcock – research
A map of woodcock ringing recoveries of birds wintering in Pembrokeshire, and a link to the original report.
Woodcock – 1994
Scolopax rusticola – CYFFYLOG – Winter visitor and passage migrant. George Owen (1603) refers to Pengelli Forest “wherein is a greate store of Woodcockes taken yearly” and devotes nearly two pages to their habits and the method of taking them with “nettes erected up between two trees”. Mathew (1894) reports Woodcock as an autumn and […]
Woodcock – 1980s winter
Scolopax rusticola – CYFFYLOG – Winter visitor and passage migrant The BTO winter atlas showed that Woodcocks were present in the majority of 10km squares during the winters of 1981-82, 1982-82 and 1983-84. The darker the colour, the higher the relative total count for each 10km square. The darkest blue represents over 4 birds seen in a […]
Woodcock – 1968-72 breeding
Red = breeding confirmed Orange = breeding probable Yellow = breeding possible More about the Woodcock in Pembrokeshire
Woodcock – 1949
Species account from the Birds of Pembrokeshire, 1949, by Lockley, Ingram and Salmon.
Woodcock – 1894
Species account from the 1894 ‘Birds of Pembrokeshire and its Islands’ by Rev M A Mathew
