Hooded Crow Corvus corone cornix

Scarce passage migrant and winter visitor

The BOU took the decision in 2026 to re-lump Hooded Crow with Carrion Crow, Corvus corone. With over 200 records in Kent to date, those records shown here are only representative since 2003.

2025 Margate Cemetery, single bird, 27th May.
Sandwich Bay, single bird, 5th May.
  North Foreland, single bird flew north-east, 22nd April.
2023 Swalecliffe/Tankerton, single bird, 22nd October, and 3rd November.
  Bockhill, single bird, 23rd September.
  Graveney, single bird, 3rd June.
  Coldharbour, Reculver, single bird flew west, 11th May.
  Dungeness, single bird, 29th April.
  Foreness/North Foreland, single bird, 26th-28th April.
  North Foreland, single bird, 11th April.
  Dungeness, single bird, 1st-29th April.
2022 Swalecliffe, single bird, 9th-10th April.
2021 Foreness, single bird, 4th November.
  Dungeness, single bird, in off sea, 31st October.
  Greatstone/Dungeness, single bird, 5th-22nd June.
2019

Dungeness/Lade, single bird, 24th February.

 

Reculver Marshes, single bird, possibly the returning bird from previous years, 24th- 26th January.

2018

Pegwell Bay, single bird, 3rd May.

 

Bockhill, single bird, 26th March.

 

Conyer, single bird, 14th March.

 

Wingham, single bird, 4th March.

 

Graveney Marshes, single bird, 25th February.

 

East Sheppey and Seasalter, this regular bird lingered around from the beginning of January until 9th March.

2017

Sheppey, single bird, 18th-30th December.

 

Cliftonville, single bird, 11th March.

 

Seasalter, single bird, 10th March.

 

Harty Ferry, single bird, 11th January.

2016

Manston, single bird, 23rd October.

 

Halling, single bird, 23rd-30th August.

 

Foreness, single bird, 1st May.

 

Abbotscliffe, single bird, 23rd April.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 3rd-7th April.

 

Foreness, single bird, 26th March.

 

Seasalter, single bird, 17th March.

 

East Sheppey, the regular bird lingered around from December 2015 until at least 4th March, re-appearing again on 11th December.

2015

East Sheppey, the regular bird lingered around from December 2013 until at least 3rd March, re-appearing again from 28th December into 2016.

2014

East Sheppey, the regular bird re-appeared on 30th November and remained in the area until the end of the year.

 

Dungeness BO, single bird, 3rd May.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 12th-13th April.

 

Seasalter, single bird, 5th March.

 

East Sheppey, the regular bird lingered around from December 2013 until at least Jan 24th.

2013

Swale NNR, possibly same bird, 19th December.

 

Swale NNR, single bird, 23rdJanuary until 23rd March.

2012

Dungeness, presumed same bird, 13th May.

 

Abbotscliffe and Aycliffe, single bird, 12th May.

2010

Reculver/Minnis, two birds, 28th October, one staying until end of year.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 21st October.

 

Dungeness, single bird, 1st April.

 

Swale NNR, single bird, 7th February, was almost certainly the same bird as December 2009.

2009

East Sheppey, presumably the same regular wintering bird returned on 16th December.

 

Sandwich Bay, single bird, possibly East Sheppey bird, 24th March.

 

East Sheppey, various sites, single bird, presumably from winter 2008, until 16th March.

2008

East Sheppey, presumably the same regular wintering bird returned on 8th December.

 

East Sheppey, various sites, single bird, presumably from winter 2007, until 4th March.

2007

Swale NNR, presumably the same regular wintering bird returned on 30th November.

 

Sackett's Hill, Margate, single bird, 26th July.

 

Seasalter, briefly, 7th January.

 

Swale, one possibly two birds, remained on SE Sheppey until at least 4th March.

2006

Seasalter, two birds, 2nd December.

 

Swale, single bird present, 20th November until 15th December.

 

Swale, presumably the same regular wintering bird remained until 11th March.

2005

Harty Marshes, what was presumably the returning Swale bird, was present from 10th-17th December.

 

Bishopstone, one flew east, 5th April.

 

Foreness, one present 18th-19th March.

 

Nether Hale, single bird, presumed to be the same throughout was present on 12th and 23rd January, and on 7th March.

 

Swale, the regular wintering bird remained until 25th March, with a second bird present on east Sheppey from 21st-31st January.

2004

Swale, the now regular wintering bird returned from 17th November, until the year end.

 

Nether Hale, single bird, 27th November, was probably the same returning from 2003.

 

Foreness, one flying south-west, 29th October.

 

Bockhill, one in off sea and flew north, 26th October.

 

Minnis Bay, single bird, 16th March.

 

Brooksend, single bird, 16th March, was probably the returning Nether Hale bird from 2003.

 

Whitstable, single bird, 7th January, was probably one of the Swale birds.

 

The over-wintering bird on the Swale N.N.R., was joined by a second bird between 8th January and 7th March. One remained until 16th March.

2003

Nether Hale, single bird, 27th November.

 

Swale area, single bird, from 6th October to year end. First seen at Swale NNR, and then often both north and south of the Swale.

                                                                             

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