White-winged Black Tern

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Chlidonias leucopterus

Rare but regular passage migrant

2025 Oare Marshes, juvenile flew east, 20th August.
Oare Marshes, juvenile flew east, 19th August.
Leeds Castle, juvenile, 18th July.
2024 Dungeness RSPB, another juvenile, 9th-13th September.
Dungeness RSPB, juvenile, 30th August until 5th September.
Cliffe Pools, adult bird, 26th June.
2023 Worth Marshes, adult bird, 13th-14th June.
2022 Dungeness RSPB, juvenile bird, 2nd September.
2021 Dungeness RSPB, juvenile, 20th September.
  Bough Beech, juvenile, 23rd August.
2016

Lower Hope Point, adult flew downriver, 15th September.
 

Cliffe Pools, juvenile present on Thames, 5th-6th September.
2015

Dungeness RSPB, second-winter, 31st August and 1st September.
 

Dungeness RSPB, second-winter, 27th August until 10th September.
 

ARC pits, adult, 18th July.
 

Dungeness RSPB, two adults, 14th-15th May.
2013

Cliffe, juvenile seen on the Thames, 22ndAugust.
2012

Grove Ferry/Stodmarsh, two adults, 26th May.
2010

Cliffe RSPB, juvenile, 23rd September.
 

Dungeness, juvenile at the 'patch', 15th August.
2009

Cliffe Pools, adult, 23rd August.
2008

Dungeness Reserve, second juvenile, 12th-19th September.
 

Dungeness Reserve, juvenile, 31st August to 19th September.
2007

Bough Beech, single juvenile, 28th August.
 

Dungeness, single juvenile at "the patch", 31st August until 8th September.
 

Dungeness Reserve, juvenile, 22nd-23rd August.
 

Dungeness Reserve, juvenile, 20th August.
2005

Oare Marshes, juvenile, 3rd September.
2004

Cliffe Pools, second-summer, 24th-28th May.
2003

Grove Ferry, juvenile/first-winter, 18th October.
2002

Swale NNR, 2nd June.
2000

Dungeness, adult, 21st September.
 

Grove Ferry, adult, 10th-13th July.
 

Dungeness, adult, 23rd-25th June.
 

Dungeness, 6th May.
1999

Dungeness, juvenile/first-winter, 17th September to 1st October.
 

Grove Ferry, adult, 6th July.
1998

Oare Marshes, juvenile, 6th September.
1997

Cliffe Pools, adult, 23rd August; presumed same bird, Stodmarsh, 24th.
1996

Dungeness, adult, 17th June.
1995

Dungeness, adult and juvenile, 23rd July.
 

Dungeness, adult, 13th-15th July.
1993

Dungeness, 22nd May.
1992

Dungeness, first-winter, 24th September.
 

Swale NNR, adult and second-year birds, 18th-19th May.
1991

Broadness, 2nd June; presumed same as Sittingbourne, same as Essex bird.
 

Dungeness, adult, 28th-30th May.
 

Murston Pits, 31st May; presumed same as Broadness, same as Essex bird.
1990

Dartford, juvenile, 4th-5th September; presumed same as Essex bird.
1989

Dungeness, 3rd-11th September; same as East Sussex bird.
1988

Dungeness, adult, 7th September.
 

Minnis Bay, juvenile, 28th August to 6th September.
1987

Minnis Bay, adult, 17th September.
 

Dungeness, 18th June.
1986

Dungeness, first-winter, 14th-16th September.
 

Bough Beech Reservoir, juvenile, 11th August.
 

Dungeness, juvenile, 11th-12th August.
1984

Dungeness, juvenile, 30th August to 15th September, also at Lydd.
 

Grain, juvenile, 26th August to 4th September.
 

Dungeness, juvenile, 17th-24th August, also at Lydd.
 

Dungeness, juvenile, 1st-7th August.
 

Dungeness, adult, 21st June.
1983

Dungeness, juvenile, 5th-24th August.
1981

Dungeness, juvenile, 21st-26th August.
 

Cliffe, juvenile, 6th-8th August, same, Elmley, 8th-10th.
 

Stodmarsh, adult, 29th June.
1979

Lydd, juvenile, 23rd-25th August, two 25th, but second bird probably same bird as Dungeness.
 

Dungeness, juvenile, 20th-25th August.
 

Shellness, juvenile, 18th August.
1978

Dungeness, another juvenile, 16th September.
 

Dungeness, another juvenile, 28th August to 3rd September.
 

Dungeness, juvenile, 22nd-23rd August.
1977

Dungeness, immature, 20th-22nd August.
 

Margate, first-summer, 8th July.
1976

Bough Beech Reservoir, immature, 26th-30th October.
 

Dungeness, immature, 30th-31st August.
 

Dungeness, adult, 1st July.
1975

Dungeness, immature, 24th September to 4th October.
 

Dungeness, immature, 16th-28nd August.
 

Sandwich Bay, immature, 9th August.
1974

Dungeness, immature, 4th September.
 

Dungeness, immature, 25th August to 8th September.
1973

Dungeness, immature, 29th-30th September.
 

Capel Fleet, Sheppey, immature, 18th and 25th-2nd October.
 

Stodmarsh, 31st May.
1972

Dungeness, immature, 9th-11th September.
 

Dungeness, immature, 1st-11th September.
 

Dungeness, immature, 12th August.
 

Dungeness, immature, 11th August to 12th September.
 

Dungeness, immature, 31st July.
 

Dungeness, 8th June.
1971

Dungeness, immature, 20th August.
 

Dungeness, 8th June.
 

Lade, Dungeness, 9th-10th May.
1970

Dungeness, immature, 4th-9th October.
 

Dungeness, one to three immatures, 28th August to 5th September.
1969

Dungeness, immature, 14th-29th August.
1968

Dungeness, immature, 11th-16th October.
 

Dungeness, immature, 5th-24th August, and adult, 16th.
1967

Dungeness, immature, 22nd August.
 

Dungeness, immature, 18th-22nd August.
 

Dungeness, immature, 8th-15th August.
1966

Dungeness, two immature, 22nd August.
1965

Leybourne gravel pits, juvenile, 29th September.
1964

Sandwich Bay, 29th May.
1963

Dungeness, adult, 20th August.
1962

Lower Hope Point, 1st September.
 

Hook's Fleet, nr. Allhallows, 26th August.
 

Shellness, Sheppey, 12th August.
 

Stoke, intermittently from 29th July to 11th August.
1959

Murston pits, immature, 28th-29th August.
1956

New Romney, 13th June.
 

The Wicks, Dungeness, two, 19th May.
1951

Hythe, 15th May.
1937

Dungeness, 17th May.
1891

The Wicks, Dungeness, two, 30th May.

No Longer Accepted

1922

Romney Marsh, male, 15th May.
1911

Near Lydd, two, 1st June.
1908

Littlestone, one, 29th May.
1904

Dungeness, five, 29th May.
 

Lydd, female, 25th May.
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