Falco rusticolus candicans
Mathew records one shot at Stackpole “many years ago”. and now in the British Museum
R.M.Lockley, G.C.S.Ingram, H.M.Salmon, 1949, The Birds of Pembrokeshire, The West Wales Field Society
More about the Gyr Falcon in Pembrokeshire
Gyr Falcon – 1994
Falco rusticolus – Hebog y Gogledd – Vagrant One was shot at Stackpole prior to 1894 and preserved in the British Museum (Mathew 1894). The Museum have it recorded as a white-phase male owned by Earl Cawdor and later purchased from the Zoological Society (P. Colston pers. comm.). An immature captured alive at Boncath in March […]
Gyr Falcon – 1894
Species account from The 1894 ‘Birds of Pembrokeshire and its Islands’ by Rev M A Mathews
