BLUE-WINGED TEAL (Anas discors)

Rare Vagrant

1970 Sandwich Bay, male, 14th April.
1978 Stodmarsh and Westbere, male, 4th May to 17th June.
1994 Stoke Lagoon, female, 18th to 30th May, associating with male Shovler, A. clyptopia .
1998 Grove Ferry, male, 14th to 28th June.
  Dungeness, male, 6th to 30th August, 12th September.
  Stodmarsh, two males, 24th October.
  Reculver, two males and one female, 11th to 12th December.
1999 Stodmarsh/Grove Ferry, male, 31st January, 1st to 25th March, remaining through into 31st January 2001. Click for photo
2000 Elmley, male, 9th May. Considered to be the same as Grove Ferry bird.
2001 Refer to 1999 male.