The Kent List, Rarity Dates and Photo Archive
The systematic sequence of this list follows that recommended by the BOU (Oct. 2002). The familiar start of the British List, with Divers, Grebes, etc., has been changed so that Anseriformes (Swans, Geese and Ducks) and Galliformes (Grouse and Pheasants) begin the List.
This list contains all accepted species of birds published by the BBRC and KOSRP in Kent up to 16th September 2008, with the current Kent List standing at 411 species.
One potential new species for Kent, Short-toed Eagle, Circaetus gallicus, May 2000, currently remains in circulation with the BBRC. The Booted Eagle, Hieraaetus pennatus, reported at Grove Ferry in September 2007, has been rejected as not proven.
For details of species with fewer than 75 accepted KOSRP and BBRC records click on one of the highlighted links provided.
Keith Privett, Sept 2008.
Photographs
If a camera icon appears beside a species' name below then at least one photo exists of that species taken in the county. If it's a rarity, click on the camera icon. You will then be taken to a sightings list of that species. Then again, look for a camera icon which will be beside each individual of which we have a photo. If it's not a rarity with fewer than 75 accepted county records you will be directed to a photograph of the species taken in the county.
This page is currently under construction - all rarity photos can at present be accessed from the Rarity Archive page or by clicking here. If you have photographs of any individual not featured in our Gallery please send it to Mark Heath by clicking here.
Kent List
Mute Swan |
Bewick's Swan |
Whooper Swan |
Bean Goose |
Pink-footed Goose |
White-fronted Goose |
Lesser White-fronted Goose |
Greylag Goose |
Snow Goose |
Canada Goose |
Barnacle Goose |
Brent Goose |
Red-breasted Goose |
Egyptian Goose |
Shelduck |
Mandarin |
Wigeon |
American Wigeon |
Gadwall |
Teal |
Green-winged Teal |
Mallard |
Black Duck |
Pintail |
Garganey |
Blue-winged Teal |
Shoveler |
Red-crested Pochard |
Pochard |
Canvasback |
Ring-necked Duck |
Ferruginous Duck |
Tufted Duck |
Scaup |
Lesser Scaup |
Eider |
King Eider |
Long-tailed Duck |
Common Scoter |
Surf Scoter |
Velvet Scoter |
Goldeneye |
Smew |
Red-breasted Merganser |
Goosander |
Ruddy Duck |
Red-legged Partridge |
Grey Partridge |
Quail |
Pheasant |
Red-throated Diver |
Black-throated Diver |
Great Northern Diver |
White-billed Diver |
Pied-billed Grebe |
Little Grebe |
Great Crested Grebe |
Red-necked Grebe |
Slavonian Grebe |
Black-necked Grebe |
Fulmar |
Zino's/Fea's Petrel |
Cory's Shearwater |
Great Shearwater |
Sooty Shearwater |
Manx Shearwater |
Balearic Shearwater |
Little Shearwater |
Storm Petrel |
Leach's Petrel |
Gannet |
Black-Browed Albatross |
Cormorant |
Shag |
Bittern |
Little Bittern |
Night Heron |
Squacco Heron |
Cattle Egret |
Little Egret |
Great White Egret |
Grey Heron |
Purple Heron |
Black Stork |
White Stork |
Glossy Ibis |
Spoonbill |
Honey Buzzard |
Black Kite |
Red Kite |
White-tailed Eagle |
Marsh Harrier |
Hen Harrier |
Pallid Harrier |
Montagu's Harrier |
Goshawk |
Sparrowhawk |
Buzzard |
Rough -legged Buzzard |
Golden Eagle |
Osprey |
Lesser Kestrel |
Kestrel |
Red-footed Falcon |
Merlin |
Hobby |
Gyrfalcon |
Peregrine |
Water Rail |
Spotted Crake |
Little Crake |
Baillon's Crake |
Corncrake |
Moorhen |
Coot |
American Coot |
Crane |
Little Bustard |
Great Bustard |
Oystercatcher |
Black-winged Stilt |
Avocet |
Stone Curlew |
Cream-coloured Courser |
Collared Pratincole |
Oriental Pratincole |
Black-winged Pratincole |
Little Ringed Plover |
Ringed Plover |
Kentish Plover |
Greater Sand Plover |
Dotterel |
American Golden Plover |
Pacific Golden Plover |
Golden Plover |
Grey Plover |
Sociable Plover |
Lapwing |
Knot |
Sanderling |
Semi-palmated Sandpiper |
Little Stint |
Temminck's Stint |
Least Sandpiper |
White-rumped Sandpiper |
Baird's Sandpiper |
Pectoral Sandpiper |
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper |
Curlew Sandpiper |
Purple Sandpiper |
Dunlin |
Broad-billed Sandpiper |
Stilt Sandpiper |
Buff-breasted Sandpiper |
Ruff |
Jack Snipe |
Snipe |
Great Snipe |
Long-billed Dowitcher |
Woodcock |
Black-tailed Godwit |
Bar-tailed Godwit |
Whimbrel |
Curlew |
Spotted Redshank |
Redshank |
Marsh Sandpiper |
Greenshank |
Greater Yellowlegs |
Lesser Yellowlegs |
Green Sandpiper |
Wood Sandpiper |
Terek Sandpiper |
Common Sandpiper |
Spotted Sandpiper |
Turnstone |
Wilson's Phalarope |
Red-necked Phalarope |
Grey Phalarope |
Pomarine Skua |
Arctic Skua |
Long-tailed Skua |
Great Skua |
Mediterranean Gull |
Laughing Gull |
Little Gull |
Sabine's Gull |
Bonaparte's Gull |
Black-headed Gull |
Slender-billed Gull |
Audouin's Gull |
Ring-billed Gull |
Common Gull |
Lesser Black-backed Gull |
Herring Gull |
Yellow-legged Gull |
Caspian Gull |
Iceland Gull |
Glaucous Gull |
Great Black-backed Gull |
Kittiwake |
Ivory Gull |
Gull-billed Tern |
Caspian Tern |
Lesser Crested Tern |
Sandwich Tern |
Roseate Tern |
Common Tern |
Arctic Tern |
Forster's Tern |
Bridled Tern |
Sooty Tern |
Little Tern |
Whiskered Tern |
Black Tern |
White-winged Black Tern |
Guillemot |
Razorbill |
Black Guillemot |
Little Auk |
Puffin |
Pallas's Sandgrouse |
Feral Pigeon |
Stock Dove |
Woodpigeon |
Collared Dove |
Turtle Dove |
Ring-necked Parakeet |
Great Spotted Cuckoo |
Cuckoo |
Barn Owl |
Scops Owl |
Snowy Owl |
Little Owl |
Tawny Owl |
Long-eared Owl |
Short-eared Owl |
Tengmalm's Owl |
Nightjar |
White-throated Needletail |
Swift |
Pallid Swift |
Alpine Swift |
Kingfisher |
Blue-cheeked Bee-eater |
Bee-eater |
Roller |
Hoopoe |
Wryneck |
Green Woodpecker |
Great Spotted Woodpecker |
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker |
Short-toed Lark |
Crested Lark |
Woodlark |
Skylark |
Shore Lark |
Sand Martin |
Swallow |
Red-rumped Swallow |
House Martin |
Richard's Pipit |
Blyth's Pipit |
Tawny Pipit |
Olive-backed Pipit |
Tree Pipit |
Meadow Pipit |
Red-throated Pipit |
Rock Pipit |
Water Pipit |
Yellow Wagtail |
Citrine Wagtail |
Grey Wagtail |
Pied Wagtail |
Waxwing |
Dipper |
Wren |
Dunnock |
Alpine Accentor |
Rufous Bush Chat |
Robin |
Thrush Nightingale |
Nightingale |
Bluethroat |
Red-flanked Bluetail |
Black Redstart |
Redstart |
Whinchat |
Stonechat |
Isabelline Wheatear |
Wheatear |
Pied Wheatear |
Black-eared Wheatear |
Desert Wheatear |
Rock Thrush |
Swainson's Thrush |
Ring Ouzel |
Blackbird |
Dark-throated Thrush |
Fieldfare |
Song Thrush |
Redwing |
Mistle Thrush |
Cetti's Warbler |
Paddyfield Warbler |
Grasshopper Warbler |
Savi's Warbler |
Aquatic Warbler |
Zitting Cisticola |
Sedge Warbler |
Marsh Warbler |
Reed Warbler |
Blyth's Reed Warbler |
Great Reed Warbler |
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler |
Booted Warbler |
Icterine Warbler |
Melodious Warbler |
Dartford Warbler |
Subalpine Warbler |
Sardinian Warbler |
Desert Warbler |
Barred Warbler |
Lesser Whitethroat |
Whitethroat |
Garden Warbler |
Blackcap |
Greenish Warbler |
Arctic Warbler |
Pallas' Warbler |
Yellow-browed Warbler |
Hume's Warbler |
Radde's Warbler |
Dusky Warbler |
Western Bonelli's Warbler |
Wood Warbler |
Chiffchaff |
Iberian Chiffchaff |
Willow Warbler |
Goldcrest |
Firecrest |
Spotted Flycatcher |
Red-breasted Flycatcher |
Collared Flycatcher |
Pied Flycatcher |
Bearded Tit |
Long-tailed Tit |
Marsh Tit |
Willow Tit |
Coal Tit |
Blue Tit |
Great Tit |
Nuthatch |
Treecreeper |
Short-toed Treecreeper |
Penduline Tit |
Golden Oriole |
Isabelline Shrike |
Red-backed Shrike |
Lesser Grey Shrike |
Great Grey Shrike |
Southern Grey Shrike |
Woodchat Shrike |
Jay |
Magpie |
Nutcracker |
Chough |
Jackdaw |
Rook |
Carrion Crow |
Hooded Crow |
Raven |
Starling |
Rose-coloured Starling |
House Sparrow |
Tree Sparrow |
Red-eyed Vireo |
Chaffinch |
Brambling |
Serin |
Greenfinch |
Goldfinch |
Siskin |
Linnet |
Twite |
Lesser Redpoll |
Mealy Redpoll |
Arctic Redpoll |
Two-barred Crossbill |
Crossbill |
Parrot Crossbill |
Common Rosefinch |
Trumpeter Finch |
Pine Grosbeak |
Bullfinch |
Hawfinch |
Golden-winged Warbler |
Common Yellowthroat |
Dark-eyed Junco |
Lapland Bunting |
Snow Bunting |
Yellowhammer |
Cirl Bunting |
Rock Bunting |
Ortolan Bunting |
Rustic Bunting |
Little Bunting |
Yellow-breasted Bunting |
Reed Bunting |
Black-headed Bunting |
Corn Bunting |
Information on this page has been compiled with the kind assistance
of BirdGuides. Their website can be located at:
For any published articles on the species listed above go to www.eurobirding.com/articlesearch.asp
If you have any questions, or additional infomation regarding this page please contact Keith Privett at keith.privett@ntlworld.com.
