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Gelochelidon nilotica

Rare Vagrant

2022 Oare Marshes/Graveney Marshes/Shellness, adult bird, 20th-31st July.
2021 Chartham, adult, flew along Stour Valley, 22nd July.
2020

Dungeness Reserve, adult, present from 23rd-30th June.
2016

Dungeness Reserve, adult, 22nd May.
2006

Dungeness Reserve, adult, 25th May.
2005

Dungeness, second year, 4th, 6th-7th, and 9th-16th May. Presumed same as East Sussex 7th May.
2000

Yantlet Creek, 5th May.
1986

Sandwich Bay, 16th July.
1983

Pegwell Bay, 8th June.
1980

Dungeness, 28th July.
1979

Dungeness, 31st July.
1978

Sandwich Bay, 18th May.
1975

Allhallows, 4th October.
1973

Sandwich and Pegwell Bays, 16th August.
1971

Dungeness, two, 9th July.
1968

Shellness, Sheppey, 5th September.
1967

Dungeness, 29th August.
 

Sandwich Bay, 15th-16th August.
 

Dungeness, 4th August.
1965

Sandwich Bay, 1st May.
1964

Dungeness, two, 22nd August.
 

Stodmarsh, 22nd August.
1963

Dungeness, four, 26th June, and three, 27th June.
 

Dungeness, 25th-26th April.
1962

Sandwich Bay, 2nd-4th September.
 

Sandwich Bay, 21st, 26th, 27th, and 29th August.
 

Stour Estuary, 7th May.
1960

Shellness, Sheppey, 1st October.
 

Dungeness, 17th September.
 

Dungeness, three, 19th June.
 

Reculver, single bird, 11th-16th June.
 

Near Deal, single bird, 10th June.
1958

Dungeness, 2nd May.
1957

Dungeness, three, 25th May.
1956

The Midrips/Wicks area, nr. Dungeness, two, 3rd September.
 

Dungeness, two, 13th August.
1955

Dungeness, single bird, 13th August.
1954

Hacklinge, adult, 9th August.
1940

East Kent, no locality, 25th April.
ca.1886

Near Whitstable, shot, possibly 1887.
1862

RomneyMarsh, 12th September.
1839

Lydd, killed, June.
pre-1824

Near Sandwich, no date.
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