KING EIDER (Somateria spectabilis)

Very Rare Vagrant

1996	Dumpton, Ramsgate, female, 15th October to 3rd November.
2009	Dungeness, adult male, 20th January, with the same bird reappearing in the Galloway's and Midrips area on 14th and 15th February.
No Longer Accepted
pre-1847	Erith Reaches, no date, now at Universtity Museum, Oxford. Erith Reaches no longer in modern Kent .
1915	Dungeness, immature male, washed ashore, 10th November.
1955	Shellness, Sheppey, first-winter male, 27th December.