Description Species

All records of rare and scarce species submitted to the Society are considered by the KOS Rarity Panel before being accepted for publication in the Kent Bird Report. All national rarities will be forwarded to the British Birds Rarity Panel to await their decision.

All British Birds rarities and the following Kent rarities require description. The completed description form should be sent to the relevant county Area Recorder for submission to the KOS Rarity Panel. Please download a rarity description form by clicking here.

SPECIES:

Great Shearwater
Cory's Shearwater
Mediterranean Shearwater
Black-crowned Night Heron
Purple Heron
Storm Petrel
American Wigeon

Green-winged Teal

Ferruginous Duck

Ring-necked Duck

Surf Scoter
White-tailed Eagle

Rough-legged Buzzard

Goshawk

Spotted Crake*
Corncrake

Stone Curlew

Pectoral Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Red-necked Phalarope
Ring-billed Gull

Sabine's Gull
Iceland Gull

Roseate Tern **
Black Guillemot

Bee-eater

Short-toed Lark

Richard's Pipit

Tawny Pipit

Dipper

Bluethroat

Savi's Warbler

Aquatic Warbler

Marsh Warbler

Icterine Warbler

Melodious Warbler

Barred Warbler

Red-breasted Flycatcher

Woodchat Shrike

Raven
Rose-coloured Starling

Scarlet Rosefinch

Cirl Bunting

Ortolan Bunting

Little Bunting

*   Descriptions only required away from Grove Ferry
** Not required from Dungeness and no longer required from Thanet.
  Descriptions required for all autumn records

In addition descriptions should be submitted for rare subspecies such as Black Brant, Greenland White-fronted Goose, Grey-headed Wagtail, Siberian Stonechat, and Siberian Chiffchaff.

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