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FIG
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. Climber on the cliffs at Mewslade. (Harold Grenfell)
Only one set offledglings has been ringed sonot much is knownabout dispersal orsurvival, although
one Gower-bred bird was reported at Stackpole on the Pembrokeshire coast. In addition a female ringed
at Stackpole first bred in 2002 close to Bacon Hole and raised one chick. The female of the 1998 pair
had been colour-ringed as a nestling at Castle Martin. There is obviously now some interchange of birds
between Gower and Pembrokeshire, only a few miles apart across Carmarthen Bay. In fact there is gener-
ally a definite expansion of the chough's range in South Wales as birds are now also present at Dunraven
Bay on the Glamorgan Heritage Coast to the east of the peninsula.
