Black-winged Pratincole

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Glareola nordmanni

Rare Vagrant

2013

Swale NNR, single bird, 26th June.
2009

Grove Ferry, single bird, 8th May, with same bird refound at Reculver on

10th May, and again at Stodmarsh and Grove Ferry sporadically between

12th-25th May, before being seen for the last time at Elmley on 25th.
1988

Harty, 21st or 22nd June to 30th June.
1969

New Downs, Sandwich Bay, 31st August to 4th September.

No Longer Accepted

1903

Romney Marsh, another (see 30th May), 17th June.
 

Romney Marsh, male, 30th May.

Pratincole sp. (Glareola sp.)

1983

Sandwich Bay, 26th June.
1971

Dungeness, 28th May.
1962

Reculver, 6th October.
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The Kent Ornithological Society was founded in 1952

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