LITTLE BITTERN (Ixyobrychus minutus)

Uncommon Vagrant

1845	Sandwich, shot, September. Now at Brighton Museum.
c.1860	Near Lullington Castle, shot, no date.
1870	No locality, adult female, killed 29th April.
1877	Mersham, nr. Ashford, adult female, June.
pre-1889	Elmstone, killed, no date.
1897	Between Ramsgate and Sandwich, adult female, early October.
1898	near Sandwich, early October.
1918	Near Wateringbury, caught, 2nd September.
1946	Near Deal, adult male, 23rd June to 6th July.
1947	Near Deal, two adults, one immature, spring to late July.
1958	Yalding Gravel Pit, adult female, 10th August.
1962	Stodmarsh, adult male, 27th May.
1964	Dungeness, male, trapped, 15th May.
	Sandwich Bay, male, trapped, 23rd to 27th May.
1966	Stodmarsh, male, 23rd July.
1968	Dungeness, immature, 10th August.
1969	Stodmarsh, male, 11th June.
1971	Westbere, male, 2nd May.
1972	Chetney Marshes, female, 20th May.
1973	Westbere, two males, 6th May.
1975	Stodmarsh, male, 25th to 27th May.
1976	Stodmarsh, male, 15th May.
	Cliffe, immature, 25th August.
	Sevenoaks, male, 17th October.
1999	Stodmarsh, male, 1st to 6th June.
2000	Oare Marshes, male, 28th June.
2002	Hoo Peninsula, male, found dead, 19th July.
2003	Dungeness Reserve, male, 11th-18th May.
No Longer Accepted
1898	Romney Marsh, 8th June.
1921	Near Lydd, male, May.