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.

The Kent Ornithological Society was founded in 1952

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In doing this, we seek increase knowledge and understanding of birds and their habitats in the county and encourage and support people seeking to take up birdwatching as a hobby.

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The Society runs regular online talks and an outdoor programme of field meetings. They are opportunities for both beginners and experienced birdwatchers to meet others in the county and to develop their knowledge and skills.

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