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A rare visitor to the UK.

Accepted records (1)[]

  • 1812: Chelsea (Middx), one (believed to be an adult male) shot on the banks of the Thames near Chelsea (Birds of Middlesex, Harting 1866)

Unacceptable records[]

  • 1812: one purchased from a London poulterer in May 1812. There was no proof that this bird was killed in the London Area but it is interesting to compare the date to the above record.
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