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Recent reports from Pea Island NWR--North Pond

Only the most recent report per species is shown. Some reports may be pending verification.

October 11

19American Wigeon ✓
17American Black Duck ✓
1Mallard x American Black Duck (hybrid) ✓
1500Northern Pintail ✓
1Ruddy Duck ✓
1Mourning Dove ✓
3Clapper Rail ✓
1American Oystercatcher ✓
3Black-bellied Plover ✓
1Killdeer ✓
2Semipalmated Plover ✓
22Marbled Godwit ✓
3Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
5Long-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
1Willet ✓
14Greater Yellowlegs ✓
6Red Knot ✓
6Least Sandpiper ✓
3Pectoral Sandpiper ✓
10Laughing Gull ✓
3Ring-billed Gull ✓
9American Herring Gull ✓
1Great Black-backed Gull ✓
1Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
20Caspian Tern ✓
13Forster's Tern ✓
6Royal Tern ✓
4Pied-billed Grebe ✓
9Double-crested Cormorant ✓
5White Ibis ✓
2American Bittern ✓
9Tricolored Heron ✓
2Snowy Egret ✓
65Great Egret ✓
100American White Pelican ✓
80Brown Pelican ✓
2Osprey ✓
2Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
2Carolina Wren ✓
8European Starling ✓
13Gray Catbird ✓
2Brown Thrasher ✓
14Northern Mockingbird ✓
2Savannah Sparrow ✓
1Swamp Sparrow ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
3Eastern Meadowlark ✓
10Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Common Grackle ✓
3Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1Nashville Warbler ✓
6Common Yellowthroat ✓
6American Redstart ✓
1Cape May Warbler ✓
2Blackpoll Warbler ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
5Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
6Northern Cardinal ✓

October 10

65Canada Goose ✓
3Black Skimmer ✓
6Common Tern ✓
35Sandwich Tern ✓
2Great Blue Heron ✓
2Northern Harrier ✓
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak ✓

October 9

2Blue-winged Teal ✓
XGadwall ✓