Linaria flavirostris
Increasingly irregular and steadily declining passage migrant and winter visitor. Rare inland.
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In 2014 the KOSRP decided to make Twite, a reportable species, requiring at least a written description of any future records. The following are those records accepted since that time. |
2014 | Foreness, two birds, 3rd November. |
South Swale, two birds, 6th November. | |
Sandwich Bay, three birds, 8th November. | |
Great Bells Farm RSPB, Sheppey, five birds, 24th November. | |
2015 | Pegwell Bay, two birds, 5th January. |
Swale NNR, eight birds, 8th January. | |
Backsand Point, Sandwich, two birds, 24th January. | |
New Downs Farm, Sandwich, single bird, 7th February. | |
Pegwell Bay, single bird, 6th April. | |
Pegwell Bay, two birds, 4th November. | |
Pegwell Bay, single bird, 26th November. | |
2016 | Pegwell Bay, two birds, intermittently from 15th January until 12th March. |
Sandwich Bay, single bird, 5th March. | |
Bockhill, single bird, 15th November. This bird had been colour-ringed on 13th September at Dove Holes, Derbyshire, and seen at Dunwich, Suffolk, on the 25th October. | |
Walmer, two birds, 21st October. | |
Pegwell Bay, up to three birds, between 20th-26th October. | |
North Foreland, two birds, 6th November. | |
2017 | Shellness, Sheppey, eight birds, 17th October. |
Swale NNR, single bird, 26th November. | |
2018 | Lydd-on-Sea, up to four birds, 1st-5th November. |
Conyer, two birds, first seen on 30th November and 1st December, with one remaining until the year end. | |
2019 | Conyer, single bird, remained from previous year until 4th January. |
2020 | Eastchurch Marshes, Sheppey, single bird, 22nd February. |
2023 | Pegwell Bay, two birds, 26th November until 31st December. |
2024 | Pegwell Bay, two birds, remained from 2023 until 28th January. |