Calonectris borealis

Uncommon Passage Vagrant

1954

Isle of Sheppey, two birds, 14th November.

1966

Dungeness Bird Observatory, two birds, 15th May.

1967

Sandwich Bay, one north, 19th September.

1968

Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 13th April.

1969

Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 13th April.

1971

North Foreland, 17th November.

1972

Dungeness Bird Observatory, two west, 16th April.

 

Sandwich Bay, 7th May.

1977

Rye Bay, 4th April.

 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, two west, 15th May.

 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, two west, 11th June.

1978

Dungeness Bird Observatory, 13th April.

 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, 5th May.

 

Minnis Bay, one west, 1st October.

1979

Dungeness Bird Observatory, 24th April.

 

Foreness, 29th July.

1982

Foreness, one east, 9th January.

 

Foreness, one west, 30th July.

1983

North Foreland, feeding behind trawler, 16th October.

1987

Dover, from ferry, 6th June.

 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 16th August.

 

St. Margaret’s, one south-west, 19th September.

 

Foreness, one east, 24th November.

1988

Dover, 26th October.

1989

Reculver, one east, 22nd November. Also seen at Foreness.

1990

Sandwich Bay, one south, 14th November.

1991

Reculver, one east, 16th June.

1993

Dungeness Bird Observatory, 20th September.

1994

North Foreland, one south, 23rd October.

1997

Dungeness Bird Observatory, 31st August.

1998

Reculver, 26th August.

 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 9th September.

 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 12th September.

2000

Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 5th July.

2003

Reculver, one east, 20th October.

2005

Dungeness Bird Observatory, one east, 15th April.

2011

Bockhill, single bird, 27th July.

2018

Shellness, two birds flew west, 26th October.

2023 Foreness, single bird flew east, 3rd August.
  Walmer Beach, single bird flew north then south, 19th September.
2024 Reculver, single bird, flew east before returning west, and was likely the same bird seen later at Shellness, and then Grain, 5th September.

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