BLACK STORK (Ciconia nigra)

Rare Vagrant

1844 Romney Marsh, shot, no date.
c.1854 Weald, killed, no date.
1856 Brewnet, nr. Lydd, obtained, 5th May.
1884 Rainham, early July, found dead 8th September.
1958 Between Stone Cliff and Iden, moulting first-winter to adult,7th August to 14th September.
1982 Littlebourne, 19th and 21st May.
1983 Margate, 10th June, presumed same, Elmley, 11th.
1988 Near Sandwich, 2nd July.
1989 Murston, 28th April.
  Murston, presumed another, refer 28th April, 28th may, probably same as East Sussex individual.
1991 Elmley 12th May.
  Dungeness, 1st June.
1993 Cliffe, 21st July.
1995 Folkestone, 22nd June.
2002 Dungeness RSPB, circling over, 31st May.
  Dungeness RSPB, circling over, 10th September.
2004 Hawthorn Corner, Walland, 16th September, is considered to be same bird as adult flying SE out to sea at Bockhill, 19th September.
2006 Margate, 6th June.
2007 Sandwich, adult, 4th July.
   
No Longer Accepted
1957 Canturbury/Dover area, September to November, possible escape.
1981 Whitstable/Reculver area, 5th October to 17th December.