Linaria flavirostris
Increasingly irregular and steadily declining passage migrant and winter visitor. Rare inland.
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.
| 2025 | Dungeness BO, three birds, 14th October. |
| 2024 | Pegwell Bay, two birds, remained from 2023 until 28th January. |
| 2023 | Pegwell Bay, two birds, 26th November until 31st December. |
| 2020 | Eastchurch Marshes, Sheppey, single bird, 22nd February. |
| 2019 | Conyer, single bird, remained from previous year until 4th January. |
| 2018 | Conyer, two birds, first seen on 30th November and 1st December, with one remaining until the year end. |
| Lydd-on-Sea, up to four birds, 1st-5th November. | |
| 2017 | Swale NNR, single bird, 26th November. |
| Shellness, Sheppey, eight birds, 17th October. | |
| 2016 | North Foreland, two birds, 6th November. |
| Pegwell Bay, up to three birds, between 20th-26th October. | |
| Walmer, two birds, 21st October. | |
| 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. | |
| Sandwich Bay, single bird, 5th March. | |
| Pegwell Bay, two birds, intermittently from 15th January until 12th March. | |
| 2015 | Pegwell Bay, single bird, 26th November. |
| Pegwell Bay, two birds, 4th November. | |
| Pegwell Bay, single bird, 6th April. | |
| New Downs Farm, Sandwich, single bird, 7th February. | |
| Backsand Point, Sandwich, two birds, 24th January. | |
| Swale NNR, eight birds, 8th January. | |
| Pegwell Bay, two birds, 5th January. | |
| 2014 | Great Bells Farm RSPB, Sheppey, five birds, 24th November. |
| Sandwich Bay, three birds, 8th November. | |
| South Swale, two birds, 6th November. | |
| Foreness, two birds, 3rd November. |
Kent Ornithological Society 
