Black Brant Branta bernicla nigricans
Rare but fairly regular winter vagrant
| 2025 | South Swale LNR, adult, 11th October until 8th November. |
| 2024 | Leysdown-on-Sea, single bird, 10th December. |
| Grenham Bay, single bird, remained from 2023 until 6th January. | |
| 2023 | Kingsdown, adult bird, 12th March, and relocated to Dover Harbour on 13th. |
| Lower Halstow, adult bird, 6th March. | |
| North Foreland/Foreness, adult bird, from 27th February until 6th March. | |
| Swalecliffe/Whitstable, adult bird, 2nd, and 20th February. | |
| 2022 | Reculver/Minnis Bay, adult bird, 29th-30th October. |
| Seasalter, one, possibly two, adults, 19th October until 3rd December. | |
| Seasalter, adult, 18th-20th March, assumed to be one of Reculver birds. | |
| Swalecliffe, adult, 7th February, assumed to be one of Reculver birds. | |
| Oare Marshes, adult, 22nd-23rd January, assumed to be one of Reculver birds. | |
| Hoo Marshes, adult, present from 12th-20th January, assumed to be one of Reculver birds. | |
| Reculver/Minnis Bay, the bird from 2021 remained until 7th March, and was joined by a second bird on 21st January, and 13th-25th February. | |
| 2021 | Funton Creek, adult, 11th-13th December. |
| Reculver Marshes, adult, 4th-31st December. | |
| Seasalter and Swalecliffe, adult, 24th-25th November and 17th December. | |
| Seasalter, single bird, 12th-19th October. | |
| Reculver Marshes, adult, 14th-15th March. | |
| 2020 | Seasalter, single bird, 22nd October. |
| 2019 |
Seasalter, single bird, 29th October. |
| 2018 |
Shellness/Harty Marshes, two birds, 16th April. |
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Lower Stoke, single bird, 18th March. |
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| 2017 |
Pegwell Bay, single bird on 30th November. |
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Lower Halstow, single bird, 27th May. |
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South Swale LNR and Seasalter, two birds, February until 18th March. |
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Chetney, single bird, 15th January, may have been same as bird in Swalecliffe-Whitstable on 9th and 22nd. |
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| 2016 |
Chetney, single bird, 18th December. |
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Pegwell Bay, single bird, 25th October. |
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South Swale LNR, single bird, 15th-16th October. |
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South Swale LNR, single bird, 8th October. |
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Pegwell Bay/Foreness, single bird, 27th February until 7th March. |
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South Swale LNR, two birds, 5th February. |
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Swale, single bird, 5th-24th February. |
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Lower Halstow, single bird, 23rd January. |
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| 2015 |
South Swale LNR, adult, from 2014, remained in the area until at least 13th January, with the bird at Hoo Saltmarsh on 30th March was perhaps the same individual. |
| 2014 |
Swalecliffe, adult, 20th October, was likely the returning bird, and was also seen at South Swale LNR on 9th November, Shellness on 16th November, and Lower Halstow on 17th and 19th December. |
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Dungeness, one flew west, 15th October. |
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Lower Halstow, adult, 2nd-13th January, was no doubt the bird from 2013, while one at South Swale LNR on 14th was perhaps the same. |
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| 2013 |
Lower Halstow, adult, presumably same, 11th December to year end. |
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Lower Halstow, adult, 18th-27th January, and again on 19th March. |
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| 2012 |
Reculver, adult, 9th December. |
| 2010 |
Reculver, adult, 15th January. |
| 2009 |
Pegwell Bay, one present, 1st November. |
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Reculver, adult, 2nd-13th January. |
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| 2008 |
Swale, adult, 3rd-14th December. |
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Cliffe, adult flew west, 4th November. |
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Hoo flats, adult, 1st-5th May. |
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Grain, adult, 27th-30th January, and perhaps same bird St. Mary's Bay 21st February. |
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| 2007 |
Grain to Halstow Marshes, adult, seen several times, 17th November until 1st December. |
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Yantlet Creek/Allhallows, adult, 26th March, and again 23rd April until 19th May, presumed to be the same as January Lower Halstow and Yantlet bird. |
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Reculver, a different adult from Lower Halstow bird, 25th-26th February, then Swalecliffe on 28th, and back at Reculver 13th March, all presumed to be same bird. |
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Yantlet Beach, adult, 18th February, presumed to be the Lower Halstow bird. |
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Lower Halstow, adult, on the Medway, 1st January. |
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| 2006 |
South Swale LNR, adult, 15th-16th November, and again at Reculver, 19th November to 7th December. |
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Yantlet Creek/St. Mary's Marsh, first-winter, 6th-22nd January. |
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Reculver, adult, remained from 2005 until 24th March. |
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| 2005 |
Motney Hill, adult, 26th December. |
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Reculver, adult, 18th November, remaining until the year end, having been seen at Swalecliffe on 11th December. |
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Harty Ferry, two adults, from 13th February, with one remaining until 24th February, and the other until 13th March. |
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Chetney Marshes, adult present, 2nd January, considered being same bird as 2004. |
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| 2004 |
Lower Halstow, adult present, 12th December. |
| 2002 |
Funton Creek, one present, 9th November. |
| 2001 |
Two birds remained from 2000, one at Reculver until 3rd March, and the other at Swalecliffe/Whitstable until 17th January. |
| 2000 |
Shellness, 2nd-29th October, with presumably same bird Tankerton/Swalecliffe from 3rd November. Joined by second bird 19th-26th November, with this bird remaining into 2001. One of the two was also at Reculver on 2nd-3rd December. |
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Motney Hill, one bird, 1st-2nd October. |
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| 1999 |
Dartford, single bird on Thames, 13th November. |
| 1998 |
South Medway, one present, 13th-25th April. |
| 1997 |
High Halstow, one present, 16th-23rd February, and again from 3rd-8th March. |
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Motney Hill, one present, 2nd-30th November. |
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Motney Hill, two birds, 7th April. |
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Horsham Marsh, Medway, single bird, 18th January until 2nd February, is considered to be the same bird of winter 1995/96. St. Mary's Bay, Thames, same bird 16th-23rd February. |
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| 1996 |
St. Mary’s Marsh, one over wintering from 3rd December 1995, until 13th January. |
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Motney Hill, one over wintering from 25th November 1995, until 13th February. |
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Allhallows, one present, 13th January, presumed same bird as December 1995. |
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| 1995 |
Allhallows, one present, 3rd December. |
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South Medway estuary, two birds, 2nd November until end of year. |
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Swale area. Single bird on several dates between 12th January and 25th February, with perhaps the same bird at Reculver/Minnis Bay from 4th-5th march. |
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| 1991 |
Reculver, adult, 16th-24th February, and again on 9th March. Assumed to be the same bird as that of 1990. |
| 1990 |
Swalecliffe, adult, 23rd October until 4th November, and was later seen in Sheppey and Reculver areas until at least 30th November. |
| 1987 |
Sandwich Bay, one present, 21st March. |
| 1985 |
Shellness, one present, 20th-27th January, with two birds on 29th. |
| 1984 |
Leysdown/Shellness, one wintered and was joined by second bird from 8th December. |
| 1974 |
Medway, adult, February, no exact dates. |
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