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Recent reports from Pea Island NWR--Salt Flats Wildlife Trail

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

July 29

15Canada Goose
2Mourning Dove
2Black-necked Stilt
1Black-bellied Plover
1Spotted Sandpiper
9Willet
2Greater Yellowlegs
2Least Sandpiper
17Laughing Gull
1American Herring Gull
7Least Tern
1Common Tern
4Double-crested Cormorant
25White Ibis
5Little Blue Heron
3Tricolored Heron
3Snowy Egret
38Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
8Brown Pelican
1Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
6Purple Martin
2Barn Swallow
1Marsh Wren
1Gray Catbird
5Red-winged Blackbird
3Boat-tailed Grackle
2Common Yellowthroat

July 28

5American Black Duck
1Clapper Rail
8Short-billed Dowitcher
1Stilt Sandpiper
1Great Black-backed Gull
2Black Skimmer
3Black Tern
3Royal Tern
2European Starling
1Northern Mockingbird
1Seaside Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Eastern Meadowlark
1Northern Cardinal

July 27

1Marbled Godwit
1Semipalmated Plover
1Lesser Yellowlegs
2Caspian Tern
1Least Bittern
3Eastern Kingbird
1Eastern Towhee
3Gadwall
1Mallard
1Killdeer
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Long-billed Dowitcher
2Solitary Sandpiper
1Gull-billed Tern
2Sandwich Tern
1Glossy Ibis
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Carolina Wren
1Brown Thrasher

July 25

16American Avocet
3American Oystercatcher
2Pectoral Sandpiper
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
12Forster's Tern
4Common Grackle