Very rare visitor
One record: One grounded by heavy rain showers was found in the Tesco Superstore Car Park in the Town Centre, where it spent a few hours on 11 September 2025.
BAR-TAILED GODWIT (Limosa lapponica)
Author: aford1954
AVOCET (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Very rare passage migrant
A probable one was heard calling at night over Chells Manor on 10 May 2025.
[AUSTRALIAN ZEBRA FINCH (Taeniopygia castanotis]
One was seen at an unrecorded location on 30 August 2024.
[ thought or known species of introduced or captive origin ]
GREY PLOVER (Pluvialis squatarola)
Very rare visitor
One record: one at Fairlands Valley Lakes on 2 November 2024.
SANDERLING (Calidris alba)
Very rare visitor
One Record: One at Fairlands Valley Lakes on 1 June 2023.
KITTIWAKE (Rissa tridactyla)
Very rare passage migrant
One record, an adult at Fairlands Valley Lakes on 18 April 2023.
[LESSER WHISTLING DUCK (Dendrocygna javanica)]
One was at Fairlands Valley Lakes on 17 June 2022.
[ thought or known species of introduced or captive origin ]
PINTAIL (Anas acuta)
Very rare visitor
Two records from Fairlands Valley Lakes, a pair seen on 21 February 2021 and a drake on 22 December 2023.
YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER (Phylloscopus inornatus)
Very rare passage migrant
One was in a Pin Green garden on 29 September 2019.
GREAT WHITE EGRET (Ardea alba)
Very rare visitor
Four records: two flying over a Great Ashby Garden on 19 June 2020, one flying over an Old Town Garden on 20 November 2022, single birds flying over Fairlands Valley Lakes on 3 December 2023 and one flying over Fairlands Farmhouse on 1 September 2024.
The History of the Birds of Stevenage 