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The Kent List

The Kent List is composed of all of those species that have been reported in Kent, and accepted by both the Kent Ornithological Society Records Panel (KOSRP) and the British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC), and are included on the official British List kept by the British Ornithological Union Records Committee (BOURC).

The British List follows that published by the British Ornithologists Union, following the sequence recommended by the International Ornithological Congress (IOC, Ver. 14.2, 2024). The naming standard similarly follows the British (English) vernacular names as listed in the BOU British List.

The following species currently await submission, or are in circulation, with the British Birds Rarities Committee (BBRC) –

Pied Crow, Corvus albus.

A bird, first seen coming in off the sea at Joss Bay on 6^th May 2019, wandered the north Kent coast as far west as Swalecliffe until 21^st. A potential first for the UK and Kent.

American Cliff Swallow,  Petrochelidon pyrrhonota

A bird was found hawking over cabbage fields at Joss Bay, on the afternoon of 19^th September 2023, and was still present the following day. A potential first for Kent.

Masked Booby, Sula dactylatra.

A bird was seen flying past North Foreland, on the 21st October 2022, and identified from photographs at a later date. A potential first for both Britain and Kent.

 

Splits and Lumps

Common Redpoll, Lesser Redpoll, and Arctic Redpoll, have been lumped as a single species to be known simply as Redpoll, Acanthis flammea flammea, with two sub-species Lesser Redpoll, Acanthis flammea cabaret, and Arctic Redpoll, Acanthis flammea exilipes. Hence two former full species are removed from the Kent List.

  

The Kent List currently stands at 431 species.

 

Inclusions:

Records from KOSRP,  17th September 2024

Records from BBRC WIP,  11th March 2024

Records from BBRC Report on Rare Birds in Great Britain in 2022, British Birds October 2023

Records from Kent Bird Report 2022 (Sept 2024)

 

Keith Privett.

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September 2024

 

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