Anas acuta – HWYADEN LOSTFAIN – Winter visitor and passage migrant. Has bred

Dates of departure and arrival. Note that in some years, dates were complicated by a few pairs remaining to breed. For more detail on breeding, see Pintail – breeding records

Year	Last recorded	First recorded	Comment
1981	8 April	8 Sept
1982	6 May	8 Sept
1983	7 April	15 Oct
1984	18 April	4 Sept
1985	24 March	6 Oct
1986	24 April	2 Nov
1987	21 April	?	Breeding?
1988	12 April	?	Breeding
1989			Breeding
1990			Breeding
1991			Breeding
1992	11 April	5 Oct	Breeding
1993	March	6 Sept	Breeding
1994	14 May	26 Aug	Breeding
1995	14 May	30 Aug	Breeding
1996	Mid-April	14 Sept	Note (1) below
1997	March	Sept	Summer
1998	Feb	20 Sept	Summer
1999	23 April	10 June	Summer
2000	17 April	23 Sept	Sprinkle Pill – 21 in Nov building up to 61 by 29 Dec
2001	15 March	29 Aug
2002	11 May	16 Sept	Breeding
2003	5 April	14 Sept	64 on Daugleddau 18 Jan
2004	30 March	13 Sept
2005	20 May	21 Sept
2006	9 April	10 Sept
2007	25 Jan	28 Sept
2008	27 Feb	31 Aug
2009	March	17 Sept
2010	18 Feb	4 Sept
2011	18 Feb	5 Sept	59 at Sprinkle Pill on 13 Jan
2012	15 Feb	14 Oct
2013	6 April	24 Sept
2014		7 Sept
2015	15 May	14 Oct
2016	29 Feb	18 Oct
2017	2 May	28 Sept
2018	7 May	5 Oct
2019	1 May	22 Sept
2020	5 April	20 Sept

Note (1) In 1996 a spring passage was detected on the Cleddau Estuary during daily monitoring of water birds immediately after the Sea Empress oil spill

Records extracted from the Pembrokeshire Bird Reports, which may contain more detail than shown here.

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