Kent Ornithological Society 
Emberiza hortulana
Rare Vagrant
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1866 |
Cobham, single bird, 10th April. |
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1874 |
Dover, single bird shot, 14th December. Now in the Prentiss Collection. |
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1946 |
Fairfield, Walland Marsh, male bird, 10th May. |
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1954 |
Dungeness, adult female or immature male, 3rd October. |
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1955 |
Sandwich Bay, first winter male, 6th September. |
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1956 |
Dungeness, three birds total, two trapped, 2nd September. |
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1957 |
Dungeness, single bird trapped, 25th September. |
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Dungeness, single bird, seen and heard, 30th October. |
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1959 |
Lower Hope Pools, single bird, 26th October. |
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1961 |
Dungeness BO, first-winter bird, trapped, 16th September. |
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1962 |
Dungeness, immature bird, 4th October. |
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1963 |
Sandwich, single bird, 13th-14th September. |
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1964 |
Dungeness, first-winter bird, 3rd-4th September. |
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1965 |
Dungeness, immature bird, 25th September. |
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1968 |
Dungeness, single bird, 15th September. |
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Dungeness, single bird, 5th October. |
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1972 |
Reculver, two males, 1st May. |
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1974 |
Dungeness, two males, 10th May. |
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Dungeness, single bird, 12th September. |
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Dungeness, single bird, 16th September. |
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Herne, single bird, 9th November. |
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1975 |
Dungeness, female, 16th May. |
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Dungeness, male and female, 19th May. |
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Sandwich Bay, two birds, 26th-28th May. |
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Sandwich Bay, two additional birds 28th May. |
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1977 |
Dungeness, male trapped, 30th August. |
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Dungeness, single bird, 31st August. |
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1978 |
Dungeness, one of two males present was trapped, 3rd May. |
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1979 |
Dungeness, adult bird, 30th September. |
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1980 |
Dungeness, two males and two females, 5th May. |
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Dungeness, a further male and female, 8th May. |
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Sandwich Bay, two birds, 24th September. |
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1981 |
St. Margaret’s, single bird, 29th August. |
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1983 |
Dungeness, one male, 6th May. |
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1984 |
Dungeness RSPB, first-summer male, 22nd April. |
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1985 |
North Foreland, one male, 6th May. |
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Minnis Bay, one female, 10th September. |
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Margate, one female and an immature, 23rd October. |
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1986 |
Dungeness, two males, 4th-5th May. |
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1987 |
Foreness, one female, 9th May. |
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Foreness, one male, 16th May. |
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Bishopstone, one immature, 30th August. |
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Lydd, one first-winter, 4th October. |
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Foreness, one first-winter, 10th November. |
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1988 |
Minnis Bay, single bird, 9th September. |
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Dungeness, single bird, 23rd October. |
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1989 |
Foreness, single bird, 9th May. |
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Dungeness, single bird, 2nd September. |
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1990 |
Reculver, single bird, 16th September. |
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St. Margaret’s, single bird, 31st October. |
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1991 |
Weirton Hill Farm, a single bird, 26th August. |
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Dungeness, single bird, 9th September |
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1992 |
St. Margaret’s, first-winter bird, 19th September. |
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1993 |
Foreness, female bird, 12th-16th May. |
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Langdon, single bird, 12th September. |
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Dungeness, single bird, 30th September. |
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1994 |
Monkton NR, single bird, 18th September. |
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1995 |
Bockhill, single bird, 13th September. |
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Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 16th September. |
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St. Margaret’s, single bird, 17th-21st September. |
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Sandwich Bay, single bird, 25th September. |
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1996 |
St. Margaret’s, one adult male, 22nd April. |
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North Foreland, one adult male, 23rd April. |
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Dungeness, single bird, 15th September. |
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Abbotscliffe, single bird, 15th September, being relocated at Capel-le-Ferne on 21st. |
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St. Margaret’s, single bird, 20th September. |
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St. Margaret’s, single bird, 23rd September. |
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1997 |
Minnis Bay/Reculver, single bird, 7th September. |
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1998 |
Dungeness BO, single bird, 27th August. |
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1999 |
Bockhill, single bird, present 29th-30th August. |
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Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 4th-11th September. |
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Bockhill, single bird, 12th September. |
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St Margaret’s Bay, single bird, 12th September. |
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2000 |
Reculver, one juvenile, 27th August. |
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2001 |
North Foreland, one juvenile bird, 15th August. |
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2002 |
Dungeness BO, single bird, 9th September. |
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2003 |
Bockhill, single bird, 6th September. |
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2005 |
North Foreland, one male bird, 26th May. |
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2012 |
Dungeness, single bird, 30th April. |
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2014 |
Reculver, single bird, 28th August. |
| Langdon, single bird, 17th September, and that or another, was present there on the 22nd. | |
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2015 |
Dungeness, single bird, 10th September. |
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2018 |
Sandwich, nocturnal movements of this species were monitored by nocmig audio recordings on the night of 28th-29th August, with a minimum of six birds being involved. All recordings were independently verified. |
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Worth Marsh, single bird, 13th September. |
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Pegwell Bay, single bird flew North, 13th September. |
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Dungeness BO, single bird, 14th September. |
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2019 |
Stonar Lake, a nocmig audio recording of a bird was taken, and later verified, at 0230am on 27th August. |
| 2020 | Sandwich Bay, single bird was sound recorded on the night of 16th August. |
| Sandwich Bay, single bird was sound recorded on the night of 17th September. | |
| 2023 | Stonar, sound-recorded at night, 15th September. |