Pallid Swift

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Apus pallidus

Rare Vagrant

2023 Bockhill/Kingsdown/Deal, single bird, 26th October.
2022 Tankerton/Swalecliffe/Whitstable, single bird ranged widely, 1st-4th November.
  Foreness, a single bird on 24th October, seen later the same day at North Foreland, and presumably returning from 26th-27th.
2020

Whiteness (Thanet), juvenile bird, 5th October.
2018

Foreness, two birds, 13th November.
 

Reculver, single bird, 12th November.
 

Foreness, single bird, 3rd-4th November.
2013

Foreness, single bird, 21st October, and again from 23rd-24th. This bird was joined by another on the 26th, and a third on the 27th, when all three were photographed. One remained until the 28th.
2011 Dungeness, one at N end of Long Pits on 5th April, and again over the adjacent RSPB Reserve on the 6th.
2010

Dungeness RSPB, 29th-31st March.
2006

New Romney, juvenile, moribund, 26th October.
2004

Walmer, 17th October.
 

Bockhill, 15th October.
2001

Dungeness, 31st October.
1998

Cliffe, 25th May.
1984

Warden Point, Sheppey, 14th-16th November.
1978

Stodmarsh, 13th-24th May. This constitutes the first record for Britain.
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