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There have been 24 previous records of Sooty Tern in the UK. See below :

1852 Staffordshire River Dove, Tutbury, near Burton-on Trent, October

1869 Berkshire Near Wallingford, shot 21st June

1885 Avon near Bath, Somerset, 4th or 5th October

1900 Suffolk near Brandon, late March or early Aprilnow at Castle Museum, Norwich

1901 Greater Manchester Hulme nr Manchester 9th October

1909 Meirionnydd Barmouth Golf Course, male, killed 17th August

1911 East Sussex Blackrock, Brighton, picke up moribund, 24th April

1933 Cumbria Drigg Point, adult late June

1935 Dorset Abbotsbury, two adults, 24th May

1935 Kent, Dungeness, 29th June

1935 Norfolk Blakeney Harbour, 11th September

1939 Upper forth Myatt Hill, nr Denny, Stirlingshire moulting into second winter

1951 Cornwall Porthkidney, Lelant 31st July

1954 Orkney Isbister, Rendall, Mainland 22nd April

1961 Hampshire Hurst, adult 17th June

1966 Suffolk Minsmere, 11th June (same as Norfolk)

1966 Norfolk Scolt Head and Blakeney Point, 14th - 19th June

1966 Northumberland Inner Farne, 21st June (same as Norfolk)

1969 Hampshire Fawley, adult found dead, 18th August

1976 Suffolk Minsmere, adult 3rd August

1979 Devon Berry Head, 9th July flying west

1980 Northamptonshire Ditchford Gravel-pits, first-summer 29th-30th May when found moribund. Taken into care but died on 4th November

1984 Kent Dungeness, 9th July

1984 East Sussex Rye Harbour, 9th July (same as Kent)

1989 Fife Isle of May 14th July

Ireland

2002 Clare Bridges of Ross, flew south 23rd July