Ixobrychus minutus

Uncommon Vagrant

1845

Sandwich, shot, September. Now at Brighton Museum.

c.1860

Near Lullingstone Castle, shot, no date.

1870

No locality, adult female, killed 29th April.

1877

Mersham, nr. Ashford, adult female, June.

pre-1889

Elmstone, killed, no date.

1897

Between Ramsgate and Sandwich, adult female, early October.

1898

Near Sandwich, early October.

1899

Preston Marshes, adult, shot

1918

Near Wateringbury, caught, 2nd September.

1929

Near Deal, believed to be Cottington Marsh. Harrison wrote in 1934 that this species has used marsh "since 1929".

1933

Near Deal, believed to be Cottington Marsh, 'several' in 1933 & believed to breed.

1946

Near Deal, adult male, 23rd June to 6th July.

1947

Near Deal, two adults, one immature, spring to late July.

1958

Yalding Gravel Pit, adult female, 10th August.

1962

Stodmarsh, adult male, 27th May.

1964

Deal, adult male, 4th May, caught, died later.

 

Dungeness, male, trapped, 15th May.

 

Sandwich Bay, male, trapped, 23rd to 27th May.

1966

Stodmarsh, male, 23rd July.

1968

Dungeness, immature, 10th August.

1969

Stodmarsh, male, 11th June.

1971

Westbere, male, 2nd May.

1972

Chetney Marshes, female, 20th May.

1973

Westbere, two males, 6th May.

1975

Stodmarsh, male, 25th to 27th May.

1976

Stodmarsh, male, 15th May.

 

Cliffe, immature, 25th August.

 

Sevenoaks, male, 17th October.

1999

Stodmarsh, male, 1st to 6th June.

2000

Oare Marshes, male, 28th June.

2002

Hoo Peninsula, male, found dead, 19th July.

2003

Dungeness Reserve, male, 11th-18th May.

2012

Sevenoaks WR, female or juvenile, 15th September.

No Longer Accepted

1898

Romney Marsh, 8th June.

1921

Near Lydd, male, May.

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