Pallas's Sandgrouse

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Syrrhaptes paradoxus

Rare Vagrant

1964

Stodmarsh, 28th December. Probably same as bird in The Netherlands 26th Oct-25th December.
1908

Littlestone, three, 4th July.
1888

Isle of Grain, picked up dead under wires, 14th December.
  Sheerness, one shot, around 14th December.
 

Hoo, nr. Rochester,four, 3th November.
 

Nayland Rock, Margate, undated.
 

Birchington, one shot, undated.
 

Northdown, Margate, two shot, undated.
 

Dungeness, thirty, 26th May.
 

Appledore, shot, 25th May.
1863

Dungeness, eight, seven shot, late July.
 

Elmley, six, arrived ‘beginning of June’. Pair shot on 7th, remaining 4 flew off west on 9th when one more (female) shot, and another shot at some point in June.
1859

New Romney, shot, November.
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