SQUACCO HERON (Ardeola ralloides)

Rare Vagrant

c.1847 Romney Marsh, shot, no date.
1867 Bedgebury Park, nr. Hawkhurst, shot, 20th May.
1979 Cliffe, 4th-9th July.
1990 Elmley, 7th-14th May. Click for photo
2004 Dungeness, 3rd June, with presumably same bird at Minnis Bay, 4th June. Click for photo
2007 Nicholl's GP, Palmarsh, first-summer, 2nd June, presumed same Oare Marshes 3rd June, and then Ham Road Pits, Faversham, 17th-18th June.
  Long Pits, Dungeness, adult, 9th June.
   
No Longer Accepted
1907 Romney Marsh, male and female, 29th May.
1914 Romney Marsh, male, April.