0410 LITTLE CRAKE (Porzana parva)

<1849One obtained near Shoreham-by-Sea (WS).WB
<1894One killed at Lancing (WS) prior to 1894.WB
1791One obtained at Catsfield near Battle (ES) on 29 March.WB
1845( c )One caught alive near Beeding chalkpit (WS) a few years before 1849.WB
1848One obtained at East Blatchington, near Seaford (ES) a few days prior to 11 March.WB
1859One obtained near Hastings (ES) on 15 or 17 April.WB
1862One obtained at Pevensey Levels (ES) in March.WB
1869A female was hunted out of a brick pit at Pevensey (ES) by a dog and caught alive in a hat hurled at it haphazardly on 14 April (BoMNH 204904).WB
1876One killed near Hastings (ES) on or about 16 April.WB
1894One killed near Worthing (WS) on 22 October.WB
1895[One caught by a dog at Whatlington, near Battle (ES) on 30 June.]WB HR
1904[An adult male obtained at Pevensey (ES) on 7 May.]WB HR
[One obtained near Rye (ES) about first week of June.]WB HR
[A female caught by a dog at Winchelsea (WS) on 15 August.]HR *80
1913A female entered the Fisherman's Institute on Eastbourne front (ES) on 3 March where it was mistaken for a mouse and hit by a thrown boot (Arnold, E.C. 1936. Birds of Eastbourne. Strange the Printers. Eastbourne.).WB
[A female taken at St. Leonards (ES) on 19 July.]WB HR
[A male caught near St. Leonards (ES) on 25 July.]WB HR
1918[One caught by a dog near Rye (ES) on 2 June.]WB HR
1921[One obtained at Pevensey (ES) on 1 June.]dFH (as 1931) WB HR
1968An adult female first seen on the lawn at Hodcombe, Beachy Head (ES) on 15 April was trapped and walked off into the nearest cornfield when released.* ×
1985An extremely confiding female present in the lower Cuckmere Valley (ES), in a ditch just south of Exceat, from at least 6 to 16 March (British Birds 78 plates 99-101).* ×



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