KING EIDER (Somateria spectabilis)

Rare Vagrant

pre-1847	Erith Reaches, no date, now at Universtity Museum, Oxford.
1955	Shellness, Sheppey, first-winter male, 27th December.
1996	Dumpton, Ramsgate, female, 15th October to 3rd November.
No Longer Accepted
1915	Dungeness, immature male, washed ashore, 10th November.