Common Teal

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American Green-winged Teal Anas crecca carolinensis

Rare transatlantic vagrant

2025 Cliffe Pools RSPB, single male, 25th-26th April.
  Worth Marshes, single male, 5th March.
2024 Seasalter, a drake, 31st March.
2023 Gravesend Promenade, a drake, 30th March and 3rd April.
2022 Sandwich Bay, single drake, 11th December.
  Dungeness RSPB, single drake, 26th November until 22nd December.
  Oare Marshes, a drake was present from 5th-15th March.
2017

Oare Marshes, single drake, 15th November with a second drake present from 26th November until 23rd December.
2015

Sandwich Bay, drake, 15th October.
 

Cliffe Pools RSPB, drake, 1st-18th January.
2014

Grove Ferry, drake,30th November.
 

Dungeness RSPB, drake,11th-12th March.
2013

Dungeness RSPB, drake,12th-14th May.
2012

Sandwich Bay, drake, 4th January, presumed same as at Grove Ferry at end of 2011.
2011 Grove Ferry, drake, 31st December.
2007

Cliffe Pools, drake, 17th-18th November.
2006

Medway, nr. New Hythe, drake, 4th-7th March.
2005

Stodmarsh, drake, 10th-24th April. Different from Grove bird.
 

Netherhale, Minnis Bay, drake, 14th-15th February, and presumed same bird later at Higham Bight, Cliffe, drake, 20th-21st March, at Pegwell, on 28th March, and at Grove Ferry on 3rd-18th April.
2004

Cliffe/Higham, drake, 22nd March to 10th April.
 

Dungeness, drake, 3rd February.
2003

Northward Hill, drake, 27th January to 23rd February.
2002

Eastborough, drake, 30th March to 20th April, presumed same bird as at Oare Marshes.
 

Oare Marshes, drake, 24th-30th March.
 

Grove Ferry, drake, 26th January.
2000

Elmley Reserve, drake, 10th April.
1999

Northward Hill, drake, 9th-30th April.
 

ARC Pits, Dungeness, drake, 6th January.
1998

Dungeness RSPB, drake, 12th-14th December.
1996

Stodmarsh, drake, 13th-30th April.
1999

Dungeness RSPB, drake, 18th-26th June.
1990

Sevenoaks Wildfowl Reserve, drake, 6th February to 4th March.
1983

Elmley Reserve, drake, 2nd April to 8th May.
1981

Dungeness RSPB, drake, 25th November.
1961

Cheyne Court, Walland, drake, 21st March. Also seen at the Midrips, East Sussex, 19th and 22nd March.
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