Somateria spectabilis

Very Rare Vagrant

1996

Dumpton, Ramsgate, female, 15th October to 3rd November.

2009

Dungeness, adult male, 20th January, with the same bird reappearing in the Galloway's and Midripsarea on 14th and 15th February.

No Longer Accepted

pre-1847

Erith Reaches, no date, now at University Museum, Oxford. Erith Reaches no longer in modern Kent.

1915

Dungeness, immature male, washed ashore, 10th November.

1955

Shellness, Sheppey, first-winter male, 27th December.

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