American Wigeon

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Mareca americana

Vagrant in winter/spring

2025 Potman’s Heath, Wittersham, 2nd calendar year male, 28th January.
2000

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

1999

Dungeness, male, 24th to 28th April.
1997

Cliffe, first-winter male, 28th September to 14th October.
1992 Elmley, male, 13th-29th December, presumed same bird as 1991.
1991 Elmley, first-year male, 1st April to 11th May.
1987

Sandwich Bay, immature female, 25th-26th February.
1983

Elmley, first-year male, paired with female Eurasian Wigeon, 8th April to 21st May.
1982

Elmley, male, 4th to 26th April.
1977

Sandwich Bay, immature female, 1st-30th April; same Westbere, 23rd May.
1961

Windmill Creek, Sheppey, immature male, 28th October.
1917

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

No Longer Accepted

1993 Minnis Bay, male, 8th-9th January.
1990 Elmley, male, 11th to 21st April.
1968

Stoke Fleet, adult male, 27th April.
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