Kent Ornithological Society 
Cepphus grylle
Passage Vagrant
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1844 |
Dungeness Peninsula, specimen obtained prior to this year either at sea off Dungeness, or possibly taken "in the Parish of Lydd". Specimen now lost. |
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1900 |
An undated but presumably 19th century record of an immature bird in the Hammond Collection. |
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An undated but presumably 19th century record of an immature bird collected in the East Bay at Dungeness, now in Folkestone Museum. |
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1911 |
Dungeness Bird Observatory, adult male in summer plumage, 21st May. Specimen now in Maidstone Museum. |
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1951 |
Dungeness Bird Observatory, winter plumage, 10th February. |
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1956 |
Dungeness Bird Observatory, 2nd August. |
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1961 |
Dungeness Bird Observatory, single bird west, 12th August. |
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1972 |
Deal, 15th March. |
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1977 |
Ramsgate, found oiled 28th July, released 18th August. |
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1983 |
Dungeness Bird Observatory, 27th November. |
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1985 |
Sandwich Bay, 6th November. |
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1987 |
St. Margaret's, 19th February. |
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Dungeness Bird Observatory, 16th August. |
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Off Goodwin Sands, 5 miles South-east of Ramsgate, 15th November. |
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1989 |
Reculver, summer plumage adult, 9th September. |
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1995 |
Reculver, winter plumage, offshore, 10th-16th December. |
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1996 |
Dungeness Bird Observatory, 7th March. |
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Dungeness Bird Observatory, summer plumage adult, east, 13th May. |
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Dungeness Bird Observatory, 23rd-29th August. |
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2000 |
Dungeness, winter plumage, 19th September. |
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2003 |
Dungeness, 12th April. |
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2004 |
Swalecliffe, summer plumage adult flew west, 5th August. |
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2006 |
Reculver, single bird flew west, 1st November. |
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Deal Pier, single bird drifted south, 15th November. |
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Swalecliffe, single bird, 4th December. |
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2011 |
Reculver, single bird, 13th August. |
| 2020 | St. Margaret's Bay, single bird flew east, 27th July. |
| Coldharbour (Reculver), first-winter bird flew east, 18th November. | |
| 2021 | Samphire Hoe, single bird flew east, 18th September. |
| Greenham Bay, single bird flew east, 11th October, and what may have been the same bird flying west at Reculver on the same day. | |
| Swalecliffe, single bird seen on 4th, 11th, and 20th November, and intermittently until the year end. | |
| 2022 | Swalecliffe, single bird, present from 2021, and seen intermittently until at least 7th May. |
| Dungeness, single bird, 2nd August. | |
| 2023 | Foreness, single bird, 12th-13th November. |
No Longer Accepted |
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1997 |
Oare Marshes, 13th September. |
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1885 |
Thames at Cliffe, shot by Mr. AB Farn below the Mucking Light, 28th August. |