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Recent reports from Pea Island NWR--Old Coast Guard Station

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

October 21

1Song Sparrow
2Palm Warbler

October 20

2Black-bellied Plover
1Piping Plover
4Marbled Godwit
5Willet
5Sanderling
1Laughing Gull
1Ring-billed Gull
2American Herring Gull
6Great Black-backed Gull
2Caspian Tern
1Forster's Tern
2Sandwich Tern
2Royal Tern
4White Ibis
2Brown Pelican
3Turkey Vulture
3Tree Swallow
8Barn Swallow
4Northern Mockingbird
1Clay-colored Sparrow
1Dark-eyed Junco
1White-crowned Sparrow
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Killdeer
4Double-crested Cormorant
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1Winter Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Chipping Sparrow
1Savannah Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow

October 18

1Wilson's Snipe
2Red Knot
2Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Mourning Dove
32American White Pelican
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
1Cooper's Hawk
20Northern Flicker
2Merlin
2Peregrine Falcon
1Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Northern House Wren
4House Sparrow
1Brown-headed Cowbird
2Nashville Warbler
1Common Yellowthroat
26Canada Goose
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
7Semipalmated Plover
1Ruddy Turnstone
7Dunlin
3Black Skimmer
1Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
7Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
1Northern Harrier
1American Kestrel
1Eastern Phoebe
1Brown Creeper
1Carolina Wren
35European Starling
1Brown Thrasher
2Cedar Waxwing
6House Finch
1White-throated Sparrow
2Eastern Towhee
2Eastern Meadowlark
1Baltimore Oriole
22Red-winged Blackbird
1Orange-crowned Warbler
1American Redstart
3Northern Cardinal
1Dickcissel

October 17

1Least Sandpiper

October 15

4Short-billed Dowitcher
6Western Sandpiper
2Common Tern