Kent Ornithological Society 
Nycticorax nycticorax
Rare but regular vagrant
| 2025 | Dungeness RSPB, adult, 25th July until 1st August. |
| Dungeness BO, single bird, 20th-22nd May. | |
| 2024 | Oare Marshes, juvenile, 13th August until 14th September. |
| Worth Marshes, single bird, 9th May. | |
| 2023 | Worth Marshes, adult, 5th September. |
| Stonar, single bird recorded calling, 6th May. | |
| Worth Marshes, two adults, 28th and 30th April. | |
| Worth Marshes, adult, 25th April. | |
| Dungeness RSPB, adult, 25th-27th April. | |
| 2022 | Lade Pits, juvenile bird, 21st-23rd September. |
| Oare Marshes, first-summer bird, present from 6th July until 19th August. | |
| 2021 | New Hythe, adult bird, 12th June, and presumably the same bird reported again from 31st July until 2nd August. |
| 2020 | New Hythe Lakes, single adult, 21st July until 3rd August. |
| Royal Military Canal, Seabrook, single adult, 3rd-4th June. | |
| 2019 | Marshside, Chislet Marshes, 22nd June. |
| Sandwich Bay, single bird sound recorded at night, 31st March. | |
| Conningbrook CP, Ashford, adult bird, 28th April remained into May, and was joined by a sub-adult on 13th May. Both birds remained until at least 23rd May, with the sub-adult last seen on 29th June. | |
| 2016 |
Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 8th-10th June. |
| 2015 |
Nickolls Quarry, Palmarsh, juvenile, 14th-23rd January. |
| 2014 |
Bough Beech, first summer bird, 30th May until 13th July. |
| 2012 |
New Romney, single bird,18thMay. |
| 2011 |
Stodmarsh, Grove Ferry and Wickhambreaux, two juveniles, 29th June until 1st August. |
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Wickhambreaux, juvenile, 3rd July. |
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| 2009 |
Military Canal, West Hythe, adult, from November 2008, remained until 24th January, when it flew south. |
| 2008 |
Military Canal, West Hythe, adult, 22nd November to year end. |
| 2006 |
Dungeness, single bird on Long Pits, later flew to Oppen Pits, 28th April. |
| 2005 |
Boughton Park, first summer, 28th May. |
| 2004 |
Bockhill, sub-adult flew south-west, 20th December. |
| 1999 |
Appledore, adult, 16th-24th May. |
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Dungeness, first-summer, 30th April. |
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Dungeness, two adults, one second-summer, 10th-11th April. |
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| 1998 |
Sevenoaks, juvenile, 7th-16th November. |
| 1997 |
Cranbrook, adult, 12th July to 23rd August. |
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Dungeness, sub-adult, 15th-17th June. |
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| 1996 |
Dungeness, two adults, 28th April to 9th August. |
| 1994 |
Dungeness, first-summer, 5th June. |
| 1993 |
Ham Fen, second-summer, 28th May. |
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Dungeness, second-summer, 26th May. |
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| 1990 |
Dungeness, two adults, 29th April, same Lade, also 29th. |
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Dungeness, adult, 16th April. |
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Dymchurch, adult, 25th March. |
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| 1989 |
Sevenoaks, adult or second-summer, 28th August and 3rd September. |
| 1987 |
Stodmarsh, first-summer, 18th August. |
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Foreness, first-summer, 29th May. |
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Bough Beech Reservoir, first-summer, 24th May. |
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Lydd, first-summer, 16th May. |
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Sevenoaks, adult, 1st-4th May. |
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| 1985 |
Stodmarsh, adult, 16th May; presumed same Westbere 18th. |
| 1984 |
Conningbrook, Ashford, adult, 29th May. |
| 1983 |
St. Margaret's Bay, adult, 29th May. |
| 1982 |
Sandwich Bay, juvenile, 23rd October. |
| 1978 |
Sevenoaks, second-year, 17th July. |
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Richborough, adult, 4th June. |
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| 1974 |
Walland Marsh, immature, 2nd October. |
| 1973 |
Cottington Court, 27th June. |
| 1971 |
Faversham, adult, 2nd April, died 14th, now in Harrison Museum, Sevenoaks. |
| 1970 |
Yalding, immature, 2nd May. |
| 1969 |
Stodmarsh, presumed immature, heard at night, 23rd-24th September. |
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Stodmarsh, immature, 19th August. |
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Stodmarsh, immature, 23rd-30th July. |
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| 1968 |
Stodmarsh, adult, 18th-19th June. |
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Murston, adult, 17th April. |
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| 1958 |
Mersham, nr. Ashford, immature found dead, 2nd or 10th February (?). |
| 1955 |
Angley Lake, Cranbrook, immature, 6th August to 6th September. |
| 1953 |
Sheerness, immature, 16th October to 11th November. |
| 1951 |
Romney Marsh, 4th May. |
| 1947 |
Near Brookland, Romney Marsh, adult male, 11th May. |
| 1890 |
Milton decoy, shot, winter. |
| pre-1860 | Stangate Creek, Medway estuary, one shot. |
| 1839 |
Near Lydd, 24th May, was at Dover Museum. |
No Longer Accepted
| 1904 | Newenden, first-year bird, shot, 28th September. Hastings Rarity. |
| 1900 | Brookland, adult male, shot, 4th June. Hastings Rarity. |
| 1883 |
Plumsted Marshes, immature male, shot, 3rd December. NB: not in modern Kent. |
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