(EUROPEAN) ROLLER

(Coracias garrulus)

Uncommon Vagrant

pre-1844 Wootton, nr. Dover, no date.
1879 Temple Ewell, killed, no date.
1884 River, one shot, no date.
1888 Rainham Marsh, caught exhausted, 8th November, now at Rochester Museum.
1894 Betteshanger, adult male, shot, no date, now at Canterbury museum.
1906 Edenbridge, 20th July to 22nd September.
1962 Canterbury, 26th June to 2nd July; presumed same, Wye, 4th/5th-15th July.
1969 Trenley Park Wood, nr. Canterbury, 8th-9th June.
1980 Aycliffe, juvenile, 8th September.
1992 Monkton, 15th June.
   
No longer accepted  
1830's Romney Marsh, bird seen over several years into the early 1840's, and taken some time prior to 1844. Specimen ,from Plomley collection, now lost.