GREAT BUSTARD (Otis tardis)

Rare Vagrant

1850 Lydd, female, shot, 4th January.
1859 New Romney, immature male, February, now at Maidstone Museum.
1873 St. Margaret's, two, one shot, no date.
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.
1970 Bockhill Farm, St. Margaret's Bay, two, 11th January.
1978 St. Nicholas-at-Wade, first-winter male, 7th January to 9th April. Click for photo
1981 Walland Marsh, three, 29th December.
  High Halstow, one 29th to 30th December.