Red-throated Pipit

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Anthus cervinus

Rare Vagrant

2021 Worth Marshes, first-year bird, 18th September.
2020 Sandwich Bay, one flew N, 3rd October.
2006

Bockhill, 4th May.
1999

Motney Hill, 8th November.
1998

St. Margaret's, 10th October.
1997

Dungeness, 19th October.
1994

Elmley, 1st October.
1992

Foreness, 17th May.
1987

St. Margaret's, 4th October.
1985

Dungeness, 15th October.
 

St. Margaret's, 6th June.
1980

Sevenoaks, 3rd May.
1968

Dungeness, 18th September.
 

Sandwich Bay, two birds, 15th September.
1938

Dungeness, flew in off sea and landed, 5th September.

No Longer Accepted

1909

Near Wittersham, adult female, 29th April. Hastings Rarity.
1880

Rainham, shot, April. Reidentified as a Meadow Pipit.
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The Kent Ornithological Society was founded in 1952

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