Cory's Shearwater

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Calonectris borealis

Uncommon Passage Vagrant

2024 Reculver, single bird, flew east before returning west, and was likely the same bird seen later at Shellness, and then Grain, 5th September.
2023 Walmer Beach, single bird flew north then south, 19th September.
  Foreness, single bird flew east, 3rd August.
2018

Shellness, two birds flew west, 26th October.
2011

Bockhill, single bird, 27th July.
2005

Dungeness Bird Observatory, one east, 15th April.
2003

Reculver, one east, 20th October.
2000

Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 5th July.
1998

Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 12th September.
 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 9th September.
 

Reculver, 26th August.
1997

Dungeness Bird Observatory, 31st August.
1994

North Foreland, one south, 23rd October.
1993

Dungeness Bird Observatory, 20th September.
1991

Reculver, one east, 16th June.
1990

Sandwich Bay, one south, 14th November.
1989

Reculver, one east, 22nd November. Also seen at Foreness.
1988

Dover, 26th October.
1987

Foreness, one east, 24th November.
 

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

Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 16th August.
 

Dover, from ferry, 6th June.
1983

North Foreland, feeding behind trawler, 16th October.
1982

Foreness, one west, 30th July.
 

Foreness, one east, 9th January.
1981 Dungeness Bird Observatory, one, 17th May.
  Dungeness Bird Observatory, one, 16th May.
1979

Foreness, 29th July.
 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, 24th April.
1978

Minnis Bay, one west, 1st October.
 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, 5th May.
 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, 13th April.
1977

Dungeness Bird Observatory, two west, 11th June.
 

Dungeness Bird Observatory, two west, 15th May.
 

Rye Bay, 4th April.
1974 Folkestone, two seen in channel 11 miles off Folkestone.
1972

Sandwich Bay, flew south, 7th May.
 

Dungeness, seen from boat, two west, 16th April.
1971

North Foreland, 17th November.
1969

Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 13th April.
1968

Dungeness Bird Observatory, one west, 13th April.
1966

Dungeness Bird Observatory, two birds, 15th May.
1954

Isle of Sheppey, two birds, 14th November.
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