GREAT BUSTARD (Otis tardis)

Rare Vagrant

1783	St. Margaret's, two, one shot, no date.
1797	Halling, female shot, no date.
1850	Lydd, female, shot, 4th January.
1859	New Romney, immature male, shot between 5th and 12th January, now at Maidstone Museum.
1879	Romney Marsh, late December.
1880	Great Chart, nr. Ashford, immature female, early January, now at Rochester Museum.
	Nr. Wye, adult male, shot, late January.
1883	Rolvenden, male, shot, no date.
	Wye, female, shot, no date.
1884	Whitstable, well before 1884, no date.
pre 1909	Barham Downs, Ticehurst refers to a bird 'some years ago'.
1970	Bockhill Farm, St. Margaret's Bay, two, 11th January.
1978	St. Nicholas-at-Wade, first-winter male, 7th January to 9th April.
1981	Walland Marsh, three, 20th December.
	High Halstow, one 29th to 30th December.