Western Bonelli's Warbler

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Phylloscopus bonelli

Rare Vagrant

2024 Dungeness NNR, in private garden, first-winter bird, 22nd September.
2020

Reculver, singing male, 24th June.
2017

Sandwich Bay, single bird, 27th-29th August.
2013

Hope Point, Bockhill, single bird, 26th August.
2011

Dungeness, first-winter, 24th August.
1991

Minnis Bay, 27th October to 9th November.
1989

Dungeness, first-winter, trapped, 3rd September.
1988

Reculver, 2nd October.
1976

Dungeness, 4th September.
1967

Sandwich Bay, trapped, 3rd-29th June.
1963

Dungeness, first-winter, trapped, 2nd September.

Bonelli's Warbler ssp. Phylloscopus bonelli ssp.

Rare Vagrant

1990

Isle of Grain, 26th-27th August.
1987

St.Margaret's, 28th April.
1978

St. Nicholas-at-Wade, 19th August.
1977

Dungeness, trapped, 27th-31st October.
1970

Dungeness, 20th September.
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