GOS is a charity. Donations are welcome and it is only £12 to join (for which you get the annual bird report, email updates concerning events and an invitation to attend all of our walks / field trips free of charge). Walks are £5 for non-members. We welcome members and non-members alike to the free online talks. For in-person talks there is a nominal fee of £1 on the door to help cover room hire.
We encourage all to join the society and contribute to the bird recording and conservation initiatives GOS promotes.
Birds of the Pembrokeshire Islands
Dave Astins will talk to us about the birds of the Pembrokeshire Islands.
The Pembrokeshire Islands and the waters around them are important for a wide range of seabirds. Internationally important populations of gannet, storm-petrel, Manx shearwater, puffin and lesser black-backed gull occur. The islands are also of international importance for their populations of breeding short-eared owl and chough. The supporting cast includes colonial cliff-nesting species – guillemot, razorbill and kittiwake.
In addition to their importance to breeding birds, they are also migration hotspots, with regular falls of migrant passerines and a list of rare birds that is the envy of the rest of Wales.
Dave runs West Coast Birding, which offers guided trips to many of the best sites in Pembrokeshire for seeing birds, and is a veteran of numerous trips to Skomer in particular.
£1 on the door to cover room hire.
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