Mareca americana

Vagrant in winter/spring

1917

Monkton, Thanet, male, shot, 15th March, now in Maidstone museum.

1961

Windmill Creek, Sheppey, immature male, 28th October.

1977

Sandwich Bay, female, 11th April to 2nd May, same Westbere, 23rd May.

1982

Elmley, male, 4th to 26th April.

1983

Elmley, first-year male, 8th April to 21st May.

1987

Sandwich Bay, female, 25th-26th February.

1990

Elmley, male, 11th to 21st April.

1991 Elmley, first-year male, 1st April to 11th May.
1992 Elmley, male, 13th-29th December, presumed same bird as 1991.

1993

Minnis Bay, male, 8th-9th January, probably same bird as 1991 and 1992.

1997

Cliffe, first-winter male, 28th September to 14th October.

1999

Dungeness, male, 24th to 28th April.

2000

Elmley, female, 19th April to 4th May, paired with male Eurasian Wigeon A. penelope.

No Longer Accepted

1968

Stoke Fleet, adult male, 27th April.

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