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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.

August 11

3Laughing Gull
2Royal Tern
4Double-crested Cormorant
1Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
3Eastern Kingbird
2Barn Swallow
2Marsh Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Northern Mockingbird
1Song Sparrow
2Red-winged Blackbird
1Common Yellowthroat
7Canada Goose
3American Black Duck
1Short-billed Dowitcher
3Lesser Yellowlegs
1Willet
2Least Sandpiper
2Least Tern
1Forster's Tern
5White Ibis
7Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
3Brown Pelican
1Belted Kingfisher
1Carolina Wren
1Eastern Towhee
3Boat-tailed Grackle

August 10

2Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
6Black-necked Stilt
5Black-bellied Plover
1Killdeer
20Semipalmated Plover
2Upland Sandpiper
6Marbled Godwit
1Spotted Sandpiper
2Greater Yellowlegs
3Stilt Sandpiper
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
5American Herring Gull
18Black Skimmer
6Caspian Tern
8Black Tern
8Sandwich Tern
1Osprey
2Seaside Sparrow
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Northern Cardinal
1Gadwall
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Long-billed Dowitcher
1Sanderling
1Pectoral Sandpiper
1Ring-billed Gull
1Great Black-backed Gull
8Common Tern
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
11Black-crowned Night Heron
2Little Blue Heron
1Purple Martin
2Cliff Swallow
120Common Grackle

August 9

12American Oystercatcher
1Ruddy Turnstone
6Northern Rough-winged Swallow
2European Starling
1Wilson's Snipe

August 7

6Rock Pigeon
1Eastern Meadowlark
1Blue Grosbeak

August 6

2Lesser Black-backed Gull

August 5

1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Glossy Ibis
2House Sparrow