AMERICAN WIGEON (Anas penelope)

Vagrant in winter/spring

1917 Monkton, Thanet, male, shot, 15th March, now in Maidstone museum.
1961 Windmill Creek, Sheppey, immature male, 28th October.
1968 Sandwich Bay, female, 11th April to 2nd May, and Westbere, 23rd May.
1977 Sandwich Bay, immature male, 31st March to 30th April, and Westbere, 23rd May to 30th June.
1982 Elmley, male, 4th to 26th April.
1983 Elmley, first-year male, 8th April to 21st May.
1987 Sandwich Bay, female, 25th-26th February.
1990 Elmley, male, 11th to 21st April.
1991 Elmley, first-year male, 1st April to 11th May.
1992 Elmley, male, 13th-29th December, presumed same bird as 1991.
1993 Minnis Bay, male, 8th-9th January, probably same bird as 1992.
1997 Cliffe, first-winter male, 28th September to 14th October.
1999 Dungeness, male, 24th to 28th April.
2000 Elmley, female, 19th April to 4th May, paired with male Eurasian Wigeon A. penelope.