THE PEMBROKESHIRE BIRD LIST Edited by Mike Young-Powell on behalf of the Pembrokeshire Bird Group

This checklist is correct to the end of 2013 when the total stands at 373 and aims to be the definitive list of all the bird species recorded in Pembrokeshire. It will be updated at least annually to reflect new species and changes in distribution and occurrence. Species names and order follow the British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) British List as of January 2014.

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THE PEMBROKESHIRE BIRD LIST English Name

Pembrokeshire status

MUTE SWAN TUNDRA (BEWICK’S) SWAN WHOOPER SWAN BEAN GOOSE PINK-FOOTED GOOSE GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE GREYLAG GOOSE GREATER CANADA GOOSE BARNACLE GOOSE BRENT GOOSE RED-BREASTED GOOSE EGYPTIAN GOOSE RUDDY SHELDUCK COMMON SHELDUCK MANDARIN DUCK EURASIAN WIGEON AMERICAN WIGEON GADWALL EURASIAN TEAL GREEN-WINGED TEAL MALLARD AMERICAN BLACK DUCK NORTHERN PINTAIL GARGANEY BLUE-WINGED TEAL NORTHERN SHOVELER RED-CRESTED POCHARD COMMON POCHARD RING-NECKED DUCK FERRUGINOUS DUCK TUFTED DUCK GREATER SCAUP COMMON EIDER LONG-TAILED DUCK COMMON SCOTER SURF SCOTER VELVET SCOTER COMMON GOLDENEYE SMEW RED-BREASTED MERGANSER GOOSANDER RUDDY DUCK COMMON QUAIL RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE RED GROUSE BLACK GROUSE GREY PARTRIDGE COMMON PHEASANT RED-THROATED DIVER BLACK-THROATED DIVER

Common resident. Scarce winter visitor. Regular but scarce winter visitor. Rare, only 1 record since 2000 (ssp ‘fabalis’). Uncommon winter visitor, only 9 records since 2000. Scarce winter visitor and migrant. Increasing resident and winter visitor. Common resident. Feral flock in north of County. Rare otherwise. Scarce winter visitor, passage migrant - mainly pale-bellied birds. 1 record, in 1935. 4 records since the first in 2007. One in 1892, probably a vagrant. 3 recent records likely feral birds. Coastal resident. Rare. Occasional long-staying individuals. Common winter visitor and passage migrant. 2 records since 2000 (1 returning for several years). Uncommon winter visitor. Has bred. Common winter visitor, occasional breeder. Scarce winter visitor, 18 records since 2000. Common resident. 2 records, both since 2000. Scarce winter visitor and passage migrant in small numbers. Scarce. 1 or 2 records in most springs, occasionally autumn. 1 record from 1960. Uncommon winter visitor, occasional breeder. 8 records since 2000. Once common, now scarce winter visitor and migrant. Rare, only 9 records since 2000. A minimum 3 records, none since 2000. Common winter visitor. Scarce winter visitor and passage migrant. Scarce winter visitor and passage migrant. Very scarce winter visitor. Common winter visitor and passage migrant throughout year. 11 records since 2000. Scarce winter visitor and passage migrant. Common winter visitor 6 records since 2000. Scarce winter visitor in small numbers. Has bred. Regular winter visitor in small numbers. 12 records, none since 2005. Scarce summer visitor. Small numbers, artificially maintained. Mainly recorded pre 1885. One modern record – Ramsey 1975. 2 modern records from 1949 and 1971. Possibility of local releases but otherwise extinct. Common resident. Common winter visitor and passage migrant. Regular but scarce winter visitor and passage migrant.

PACIFIC DIVER GREAT NORTHERN DIVER YELLOW (White) –BILLED DIVER BLACK-BROWED ALBATROSS NORTHERN FULMAR FEA’S/ZINO’S PETREL CORY’S SHEARWATER GREAT SHEARWATER SOOTY SHEARWATER MANX SHEARWATER BALEARIC SHEARWATER MACARONESIAN (Little) SHEARWATER WILSON’S STORM-PETREL EUROPEAN STORM-PETREL LEACH’S STORM-PETREL NORTHERN GANNET GREAT CORMORANT EUROPEAN SHAG FRIGATEBIRD sp. GREAT BITTERN AMERICAN BITTERN LITTLE BITTERN BLACK-CROWNED NIGHT HERON SQUACCO HERON CATTLE EGRET LITTLE EGRET GREAT EGRET GREY HERON PURPLE HERON BLACK STORK WHITE STORK GLOSSY IBIS EURASIAN SPOONBILL LITTLE GREBE GREAT CRESTED GREBE RED-NECKED GREBE SLAVONIAN GREBE BLACK-NECKED GREBE EUROPEAN HONEY-BUZZARD BLACK KITE RED KITE WHITE-TAILED EAGLE EURASIAN MARSH HARRIER HEN HARRIER PALLID HARRIER MONTAGU’S HARRIER NORTHERN GOSHAWK EURASIAN SPARROWHAWK COMMON BUZZARD ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD OSPREY WATER RAIL SPOTTED CRAKE CORNCRAKE COMMON MOORHEN

1 in 2007, 2008 and 2009 (assumed same bird), second for Britain. Regular winter visitor and passage migrant. 2 records, in 1999 and 2011. 2 records, both from 1990. Common resident. Blue form a rare migrant, 7 records since 2000. 2 records from 1996 and 2010. Scarce migrant. Scarce migrant. Regular passage migrant, mainly in autumn. Common summer visitor and passage migrant. Regular visitor and passage migrant. 4 records including a summering bird, none since 2000. 9 records, 3 since 2000. Breeding resident and scarce passage migrant. Regular, mainly autumn, migrant. Common summer visitor and passage migrant. Common resident and passage migrant. Common resident and passage migrant. 1 of this genus in 1995. Scarce but regular winter visitor. 4 records, 1 since 2000. 10 records, 1 since 2000. 21 records, 6 since 2000. 1 record in 2010. 13 records, 10 since 2000. Scarce resident and winter visitor. Rare but increasing. 9 records, 8 since 2000. Common resident and passage migrant. 12 records, 7 since 2000. 3 records, none since 2000. 7 records, 2 since 2000. 13 records, 10 since 2000 including a flock of 23 in 2011. Scarce migrant. Common resident and winter visitor. Scarce winter visitor and rare breeder Uncommon winter visitor, 12 records since 2000. Regular but scarce winter visitor. Uncommon winter visitor, 14 records since 2000. 30 records, 10 since 2000. 3 records, 1 since 2000. Common resident. Increasing. 2 records, in 1908 and 1993. Scarce visitor, breeding on one occasion. Regular winter visitor. 1 record, in 2013. Previously bred but only 3 records since 2000. Resident and winter visitor. Common resident. Common resident. Rare. Not recorded since 2000. Scarce migrant, may have bred. Scarce breeding resident, passage migrant and winter visitor. Rare, possibly breeding on occasions. Rare. Last bred in 1962 but only 7 records since 2000. Common resident and passage migrant.

COMMON COOT COMMON CRANE LITTLE BUSTARD STONE-CURLEW BLACK-WINGED STILT PIED AVOCET EURASIAN OYSTERCATCHER AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER EUROPEAN GOLDEN PLOVER GREY PLOVER NORTHERN LAPWING LITTLE (Ringed) PLOVER RINGED PLOVER KENTISH PLOVER EURASIAN DOTTEREL UPLAND SANDPIPER WHIMBREL EURASIAN CURLEW BLACK-TAILED GODWIT BAR-TAILED GODWIT RUDDY TURNSTONE RED KNOT RUFF CURLEW SANDPIPER TEMMINCK’S STINT SANDERLING DUNLIN PURPLE SANDPIPER BAIRD’S SANDPIPER LITTLE STINT WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER PECTORAL SANDPIPER SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER RED-NECKED PHALAROPE GREY PHALAROPE COMMON SANDPIPER SPOTTED SANDPIPER GREEN SANDPIPER SPOTTED REDSHANK COMMON GREENSHANK LESSER YELLOWLEGS WOOD SANDPIPER COMMON REDSHANK JACK SNIPE LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER EURASIAN WOODCOCK COMMON SNIPE PRATINCOLE sp. POMARINE SKUA ARCTIC SKUA LONG-TAILED SKUA GREAT SKUA ATLANTIC PUFFIN BLACK GUILLEMOT

Common resident and passage migrant. 11 records, only 1 since 2000. 1 record, from 1968. 5 records, 1 since 2000. 4 records but none since 2000. 23 records, 5 since 2000. Common resident and winter visitor. 1 record in 1981. Common passage migrant and winter visitor. Scarce passage migrant and winter visitor. Rare breeding bird. Common passage migrant and winter visitor. Scarce passage migrant. Common passage migrant. 6 records, 3 since 2000. Scarce passage migrant. 3 records, none since 2000. Common passage migrant and uncommon winter visitor. Winter visitor and migrant. Rare breeding bird. Scarce passage migrant and winter visitor. Passage migrant and winter visitor. Passage migrant and winter visitor. Scarce winter visitor and passage migrant. Uncommon passage migrant. Scarce passage migrant. 3 records but none since 2000. Uncommon passage migrant. Common passage migrant and winter visitor. Scarce passage migrant and winter visitor. 4 records, 1 since 2000. Scarce passage migrant. 2 records but none since 2000. 17 records, 5 since 2000. Scarce passage migrant. 38 records, 9 since 2000. 3 records, 2 since 2000. 4 records but none since 2000. Scarce autumn migrant. Common passage migrant and scarce winter visitor. 1 record in 1980. Passage migrant and scarce winter visitor. Rare passage migrant and winter visitor. Passage migrant and winter visitor. 8 records, 5 since 2000. Scarce passage migrant. Common passage migrant and winter visitor. Passage migrant and winter visitor. 2 records, in 1988 and 2013. Common passage migrant and winter visitor. Common passage migrant and winter visitor. One of this genus in 1981. Uncommon passage migrant, usually in autumn. Common passage migrant, usually in autumn. Uncommon passage migrant, usually in autumn. Common passage migrant. Occasional in winter. Common summer visitor and passage migrant. Uncommon. Regular recent breeding.

RAZORBILL LITTLE AUK COMMON GUILLEMOT SOOTY TERN LITTLE TERN GULL-BILLED TERN CASPIAN TERN BLACK TERN WHITE-WINGED TERN SANDWICH TERN FORSTER’S TERN COMMON TERN ROSEATE TERN ARCTIC TERN SABINE’S GULL BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE BONAPARTE’S GULL BLACK-HEADED GULL LITTLE GULL ROSS’S GULL LAUGHING GULL MEDITERRANEAN GULL MEW (Common) GULL RING-BILLED GULL LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL HERRING GULL YELLOW-LEGGED GULL ICELAND GULL GLAUCOUS GULL GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL PALLAS’S SANDGROUSE ROCK PIGEON/FERAL PIGEON STOCK PIGEON COMMON WOOD PIGEON EURASIAN COLLARED DOVE EUROPEAN TURTLE DOVE GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOO COMMON CUCKOO YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO BARN OWL EURASIAN SCOPS OWL LITTLE OWL TAWNY OWL LONG-EARED OWL SHORT-EARED OWL EUROPEAN NIGHTJAR COMMON SWIFT PALLID SWIFT ALPINE SWIFT LITTLE SWIFT HOOPOE EUROPEAN BEE-EATER EUROPEAN ROLLER COMMON KINGFISHER EURASIAN WRYNECK

Common resident and passage migrant. Scarce autumn migrant and occasional winter visitor. Common resident and passage migrant. 1 record in 2005. Scarce passage migrant. 3 records but none since 2000. 1 record in 1994. Scarce passage migrant. 5 records, none since 2000. Common passage migrant. 2 records in 1994 and 2000. Common autumn migrant, scarce in spring. Uncommon autumn migrant. Common autumn migrant, scarce in spring. Uncommon passage migrant. Common resident and passage migrant. 3 records, 1 since 2000. Common passage migrant and winter visitor. Passage migrant and winter visitor in small numbers. 1 record, in 1981. 8 records, 7 in 2005 and 1 in 2009. Increasingly common passage migrant and winter visitor. Winter visitor and passage migrant. Uncommon passage migrant and winter visitor. Common resident, passage migrant and winter visitor. Common resident, passage migrant and winter visitor. Uncommon passage migrant and winter visitor. Uncommon passage migrant and winter visitor Uncommon winter visitor and migrant. Common resident and passage migrant. 3 old records. Common resident. Scarce resident, rare passage migrant. Common resident, passage migrant and winter visitor. Common resident and occasional passage migrant. Increasingly rare passage migrant. 2 records in 2009 and 2013. Uncommon summer visitor and passage migrant. 2 records in 1832 and 1994. Thinly distributed resident. 2 records but none since 2000. Uncommon resident. Common resident. Rare passage migrant and winter visitor, 12 records since 2000. Uncommon resident, winter visitor and passage migrant. 5 records since 2000. Uncommon summer visitor and passage migrant. 2 records in 1984 and 2001. 12 records, 2 since 2000. 1 record from 1981. Uncommon passage migrant. 16 records, 9 since 2000. 3 records, 2 since 2000. Thinly distributed breeding resident and passage migrant. Uncommon passage migrant.

GREEN WOODPECKER GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER COMMON KESTREL RED-FOOTED FALCON MERLIN EURASIAN HOBBY GYR FALCON PEREGRINE FALCON ROSE-RINGED PARAKEET RED-EYED VIREO EURASIAN GOLDEN ORIOLE ISABELLINE SHRIKE RED-BACKED SHRIKE LESSER GREY SHRIKE GREAT GREY SHRIKE WOODCHAT SHRIKE RED-BILLED CHOUGH BLACK-BILLED MAGPIE EURASIAN JAY EURASIAN JACKDAW ROOK CARRION CROW HOODED CROW COMMON RAVEN GOLDCREST FIRECREST BLUE TIT GREAT TIT COAL TIT WILLOW TIT MARSH TIT BEARDED TIT GREATER SHORT-TOED LARK WOOD LARK SKY LARK HORNED (Shore) LARK SAND MARTIN BARN SWALLOW HOUSE MARTIN RED-RUMPED SWALLOW CETTI’S WARBLER LONG-TAILED TIT GREENISH WARBLER PALLAS’S LEAF WARBLER YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER HUME’S LEAF WARBLER RADDE’S WARBLER DUSKY WARBLER WESTERN BONELLI’S WARBLER BONELLI’S WARBLER sp. WOOD WARBLER COMMON CHIFFCHAFF WILLOW WARBLER BLACKCAP

No longer a breeding bird, only rare sightings. Common resident. Rare, declining resident. Scarce resident and passage migrant. 9 records but only 1 since 2000. Winter visitor and migrant in small numbers. Scarce migrant, has summered. Rare. 2 records, none since 2000. Scarce resident. 2 records from 1988. 2 records, in 1967 and 1995. 9 records since 2000. 2 records in 1995 and 2011. Uncommon passage migrant. 5 records, 1 since 2000. Uncommon passage migrant and winter visitor. Uncommon passage migrant. Uncommon coastal resident. Common resident. Common resident. Common resident. Common resident. Common resident, occasional passage migrant. Scarce visitor. Common resident and passage migrant. Common resident and passage migrant. Uncommon passage migrant and winter visitor. Common resident. Common resident. Common resident and rare autumn migrant. Scarce, declining resident. Thinly distributed resident. 1 record in 1974. 12 records, 2 since 2000. 6 records since 2000. Scarce breeding bird. Common winter visitor and passage migrant. 12 records, 3 since 2000. Common summer visitor and passage migrant. Common summer visitor and passage migrant. Common summer visitor and passage migrant. 7 records, 2 since 2000. Scarce resident and passage migrant. Common resident. 9 records, 3 since 2000. 8 records, 4 since 2000. Scarce autumn migrant. 1 record in 1993. 2 records, in 1968 and 2007. 2 records in 1988 and 2003. 4 records, 2 since 2000. One not specifically identified in 1991. Scarce summer visitor and rare passage migrant. Common summer visitor and passage migrant. Scarce in winter. Common summer visitor and passage migrant. Common summer visitor and passage migrant. Scarce in winter.

GARDEN WARBLER BARRED WARBLER LESSER WHITETHROAT WESTERN ORPHEAN WARBLER COMMON WHITETHROAT DARTFORD WARBLER SUBALPINE WARBLER SARDINIAN WARBLER COMMON GRASSHOPPER WARBLER SAVI’S WARBLER BOOTED WARBLER ICTERINE WARBLER MELODIOUS WARBLER AQUATIC WARBLER SEDGE WARBLER BLYTH’S REED WARBLER MARSH WARBLER EURASIAN REED WARBLER GREAT REED WARBLER BOHEMIAN WAXWING WOOD NUTHATCH EURASIAN TREECREEPER WINTER WREN COMMON STARLING ROSY STARLING WHITE-THROATED DIPPER SWAINSON’S THRUSH RING OUZEL COMMON BLACKBIRD DUSKY THRUSH FIELDFARE SONG THRUSH REDWING MISTLE THRUSH SPOTTED FLYCATCHER EUROPEAN ROBIN WHITE-THROATED ROBIN COMMON NIGHTINGALE BLUETHROAT RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER PIED FLYCATCHER BLACK REDSTART COMMON REDSTART MOUSSIER’S REDSTART WHINCHAT SIBERIAN STONECHAT STONECHAT NORTHERN WHEATEAR ISABELLINE WHEATEAR DESERT WHEATEAR BLACK-EARED WHEATEAR PIED WHEATEAR HEDGE ACCENTOR ALPINE ACCENTOR

Common summer visitor and passage migrant. Uncommon autumn migrant, 1 spring record. Scarce summer visitor and passage migrant. 1 record, in 2013. Common summer visitor and passage migrant. Rare resident and migrant. 11 records since 2000. 1 record in 1968. Common summer visitor and passage migrant. 2 records in 1968 and 1983. 3 records, 2 since 2000. 3 records since 2000. Uncommon autumn migrant, rare in spring. 11 records but only 1 since 2000. Common summer visitor and passage migrant. 1 record, in 2013. 1 record, in 2009. Uncommon summer visitor and passage migrant. 4 records, 1 since 2000. Scarce winter visitor. Common resident. Common resident. Common resident. Common winter visitor and migrant. Scarce and declining breeder. Uncommon passage migrant. Resident on suitable waterways. 1 record in 1967. Scarce passage migrant, has bred. Common resident, passage migrant and winter visitor. 1 record in 1987. Common passage migrant and winter visitor. Common resident, passage migrant and winter visitor. Common passage migrant and winter visitor. Common resident and scarce passage migrant. Common summer visitor and passage migrant. Common resident, passage migrant and winter visitor. 1 record in 1990, the second British record. 2 records since 2000. 17 records, 3 since 2000. 1 record in 2010. Uncommon autumn migrant, rare in spring. Scarce summer visitor and passage migrant. Scarce passage migrant and winter visitor. Scarce summer visitor and passage migrant. 1 record, the only one for Britain, in 1988. Scarce summer visitor and passage migrant. 4 records, none since 2000. Common resident and passage migrant. Scarce summer visitor and common passage migrant. 2 records in 1997 and 2013. 3 records, 2 since 2000. 2 records in 1990 and 2004. 2 records, in 1968 and 1993. Common resident. 1 record in 1997.

HOUSE SPARROW SPANISH SPARROW EURASIAN TREE SPARROW YELLOW WAGTAIL CITRINE WAGTAIL GREY WAGTAIL WHITE/PIED WAGTAIL RICHARD’S PIPIT TAWNY PIPIT OLIVE-BACKED PIPIT TREE PIPIT PECHORA PIPIT MEADOW PIPIT RED-THROATED PIPIT ROCK PIPIT WATER PIPIT BRAMBLING CHAFFINCH HAWFINCH COMMON ROSEFINCH COMMON BULLFINCH EUROPEAN GREENFINCH COMMON LINNET TWITE LESSER REDPOLL COMMON REDPOLL ARCTIC REDPOLL COMMON CROSSBILL EUROPEAN GOLDFINCH EUROPEAN SERIN EURASIAN SISKIN SNOW BUNTING LAPLAND LONGSPUR (Bunting) ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK INDIGO BUNTING PINE BUNTING YELLOWHAMMER CIRL BUNTING ORTOLAN BUNTING RUSTIC BUNTING LITTLE BUNTING REED BUNTING BLACK-HEADED BUNTING CORN BUNTING BOBOLINK BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD BALTIMORE ORIOLE BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER BLACKPOLL WARBLER YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER

Common resident. 1 record, in 1993. Uncommon migrant. Uncommon autumn migrant, fewer in spring. 2 records in 2000 and 2004. Common resident and uncommon passage migrant. Common resident and passage migrant. Uncommon passage migrant. 11 records, none since 2000. 4 records, 3 since 2000. Scarce summer visitor and passage migrant. 1 record in 2007. Common resident, passage migrant and winter visitor. 8 records, 3 since 2000. Common resident and passage migrant. Uncommon passage migrant and winter visitor Scarce passage migrant and winter visitor. Common resident, passage migrant and winter visitor. Rare. 4 records since 2000. Uncommon passage migrant. Common resident. Uncommon resident and passage migrant. Common resident and passage migrant. Rare. 4 records since 2000. Scarce resident and passage migrant. 3 records, 2 since 2000. 1 record, in 1996. Uncommon passage migrant and recent resident. Common resident and passage migrant. 16 records, 4 since 2000. Common resident, passage migrant and winter visitor. Scarce passage migrant and winter visitor. Scarce passage migrant and winter visitor. 2 records in 1967 and 1988. 1 record in 1996. 1 record in 2000. Uncommon and declining resident. Rare, not recorded since 1981. 11 records since 2000. 5 records, none since 2000. 4 records since 2000. Common resident and passage migrant. 8 records, 3 since 2000. The last was in 1981. Previously bred. 2 records in 1999 and 2010. 1 record in 2009. 3 records, none since 2000. 1 record in 1980. 1 record in 1961. 1 record in 2008. 1 record in 1994.

TOTAL 373 Species (Frigatebird sp. Pratincole sp. and Bonelli’s Warbler sp. not included)