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Recent reports from Pea Island NWR

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

August 30

5Canada Goose
1Northern Shoveler
1American Black Duck
1Black-necked Stilt
3Willet
3Greater Yellowlegs
2Least Sandpiper
1Laughing Gull
3Black Skimmer
6Black Tern
1Forster's Tern
5Double-crested Cormorant
10Great Egret
5Red-winged Blackbird
1Mallard
1Northern Pintail
3Mourning Dove
6Clapper Rail
15American Avocet
1American Oystercatcher
14Black-bellied Plover
28Semipalmated Plover
10Marbled Godwit
8Short-billed Dowitcher
5Lesser Yellowlegs
5Sanderling
1Pectoral Sandpiper
21Semipalmated Sandpiper
2American Herring Gull
21Caspian Tern
4Common Tern
2Sandwich Tern
150Royal Tern
8White Ibis
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Black-crowned Night Heron
2Little Blue Heron
19Tricolored Heron
6Great Blue Heron
40Brown Pelican
2Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
1Belted Kingfisher
13Eastern Kingbird
8Barn Swallow
1Carolina Wren
12European Starling
4Northern Mockingbird
1House Finch
7Seaside Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
45Boat-tailed Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat
1Northern Cardinal

August 29

2American Redstart
1Northern Yellow Warbler
4Killdeer
1Spotted Sandpiper
2Stilt Sandpiper
2Western Sandpiper
5Great Black-backed Gull
2Least Tern
1Green Heron
2Brown-headed Cowbird
2Black-and-white Warbler
2Prairie Warbler
1Piping Plover
1White-rumped Sandpiper
4Lesser Black-backed Gull
15Common Grackle
8Rock Pigeon
3Pied-billed Grebe
1Snowy Egret

August 28

1Gray Catbird
30Roseate Tern
1Ruddy Turnstone

August 27

3American Golden-Plover
1Solitary Sandpiper
32Ring-billed Gull
1Gadwall
1Blue Grosbeak
1Common Eider
1Gull-billed Tern
1Blue Jay

August 26

5Blue-winged Teal
2Mallard x American Black Duck (hybrid)

August 25

1Hudsonian Whimbrel
2American Crow
2Purple Martin
1Brown Thrasher
1Marsh Wren

August 24

4Common Nighthawk
1Cape May Warbler