Kent Ornithological Society Providing information about birds and birdwatching in Kent (Registered charity 21489)

Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax

Formerly bred

Nested in the county at Dover Cliffs until sometime between the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Ticehurst: A History of the Birds of Kent).

Then sometime before the end of the eighteenth century, the cliffs were repopulated by an escaped pair, originally from Cornwall. This pair gave rise to a colony which survived until sometime between 1840 and 1850.

This species appears in the Canterbury City coat-of-arms.