Corn Crake (Crex crex)

Formerly bred, now rare passage migrant

With many records prior to 1952, this species would not normally be included in this list. However, as a species which causes great interest amongst birders, and with the exception of several early or late records, those records since 1952 are included here.

pre 1881	Rainham, bird shot in turnip field.
1881	Addisham, bird killed, November 30th.
1892	Maidstone, male shot, 30th December.
1906	Ashford, sample taken alive, 12th March.
1935	Sheppey, juvenile female, taken, 28th November.
1948	Deal, male, shot, 18th December.
1949	Lydd, shot, 23rd November.
1952	Dungeness, single bird, 1st September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 4th September.
	Warden Point, Sheppey, single bird, 7th September.
	Shellness, Stour, single bird, 18th October.
1953	Allhallows, one killed, 26th April.
	Dover, male trapped, June 18th.
	Lower Halstow, single, 2nd-4th August.
	Chilham, single, August, no date given.
	Kingsnorth, nr. Ashford, one found dead, 5th October.
1954	Hacklinge, single bird, 3rd August.
	St. Mary's Bay, juvenile found dead, 18th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 2nd September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 18th September.
1955	Borstal, nr. Rochester, single bird, 1st May.
	Chilham, single bird, 26th August.
	Dungeness, single bird, 12th August to 4th September.
1956	Sheerness, one killed, 23rd April.
	Dungeness, single bird, 9th-22nd September.
	New Romney, 1st winter found dead, 23rd September.
1957	Reculver, two birds in corn, 5th May.
	St. Margaret's-at-Cliffe, single bird, 6th September.
	Gillingham, single bird, 9th-10th October.
1959	Gillingham, single bird, 20th and 22nd May.
	Doddington, single bird, autumn, date not known.
	St. Margaret's-at-Cliffe, max. two birds, 27th September.
	Westbere, single bird, autumn, date not known.
	Nonington, single bird, autumn, date not known.
	Sandling Park, single bird, autumn, date not known.
	Dungeness, single bird, autumn, date not known.
	Allhallows, single bird on shore, 5th October.
	Shellness, Sheppey, single bird on shore, 6th October.
1960	Murston, single bird, 25th-30th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 26th August.
1961	Harty, Sheppey, heard calling, 13th-14th May.
	Shadoxhurst, single bird, 5th July.
	Ditton, one found with broken wing, later died, 23rd May.
	Chillenden, one found dead, 29th August.
1963	Paddock Wood, single bird, 27th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 21st September.
1964	Alkham, single bird, 5th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single birds, 17th, 22nd, 23rd, and 26th August.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 4th October.
	Dungeness, single birds, 5th and 6th September.
	Dungeness, three birds found dead during September.
1965	Hollingbourne, single bird, 20th April.
	The Wicks, Dungeness, single bird, 9th September.
1966	Minnis Bay, single bird, 3rd September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 15th September.
	Dungeness, single bird, 7th October.
	St. Margaret's Bay, single bird, 21st September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 12th October.
1967	Dungeness, single bird, 26th August.
1968	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 15th September.
1969	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 13th September.
1970	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 15th April.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 13th September.
	Dungeness, one found dead by pylons, 18th September.
1971	Lydd, single bird, 19th April.
1974	Dungeness, single bird, 17th September.
1976	Swanscombe S.F., single bird, 12th September.
	Pegwell Bay, single bird, 14th September.
	Foreness Point, single bird, 7th November.
1977	Stodmarsh, single bird, 13th May.
	Bewl Bridge, one heard calling, 29th August.
1979	Under River, Sevenoaks, one present, 12th-15th July.
1984	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 23rd May.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 16th September.
	Seaton, one heard calling, 9th June.
1985	Foreness, single bird, 11th August.
	Cliffe, single bird, 31st August.
1986	Broadstairs, one walked into a classroom, 9th September.
1988	Minster, Thanet, single bird, 17th April.
	St. Margaret's, single bird, 22nd September.
1989	Headcorn, single bird, 10th September.
	Boughton Park, single bird, 17th September.
	St. Margaret's, single bird, 5th October.
1990	High Halstow, one found dead, 16th September.
	Sandwich Bay, one flushed, 21st September.
1993	Langdon, one flushed, 28th August.
	Pegwell Bay, one flushed, 28th September.
1994	Unnamed site, up to two birds heard calling, 6th June to 14th July.
1996	Abbotscliffe, single bird, 10th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 14th-15th September.
1997	Sandwich Bay, one flushed from riverbank, 5th September.
	Sandwich Bay, single bird, 24th September.
2000	Bockhill, single bird, 4th September.
	Hope Point, Kingsdown, single bird, 26th September.
2002	Cranbrook, a single bird caught by a dog and released on 19th August, was caught again by the same dog on 22nd. Again, released, unharmed, this time on Walland Marsh.
2003	Cliffe Pools, single bird, 31st August, and presumably the same bird again on 11th September.
	Dungeness RSPB, single bird, 2nd September.
2008	Abbotscliffe, single bird, 13th September.