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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.

August 16

4Sanderling
2Laughing Gull
4Least Tern
15Forster's Tern
20Common Tern
10Sandwich Tern
10Royal Tern
4Canada Goose
8Mourning Dove
2Black-necked Stilt
2American Oystercatcher
2Black-bellied Plover
2Killdeer
5Semipalmated Plover
1Piping Plover
1Short-billed Dowitcher
2Spotted Sandpiper
5Willet
10Ruddy Turnstone
15Least Sandpiper
1Western Sandpiper
5American Herring Gull
6Great Black-backed Gull
1Roseate Tern
8Double-crested Cormorant
1Great Egret
56Brown Pelican
1Carolina Wren
5Northern Mockingbird
100Red-winged Blackbird
2Boat-tailed Grackle

August 15

2Greater Yellowlegs
6Semipalmated Sandpiper
12Black Skimmer
1Sooty Shearwater
2Osprey
2Barn Swallow
3European Starling
2Gray Catbird
2Eastern Towhee
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1Northern Cardinal
2Stilt Sandpiper
3Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Purple Martin
1Solitary Sandpiper

August 13

1Lesser Yellowlegs
2Ring-billed Gull
1Cooper's Hawk
1Black Tern
12White Ibis

August 12

1Caspian Tern
1Snowy Egret
1Common Grackle
1Northern Waterthrush
1American Redstart
1Turkey Vulture

August 11

4Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1Seaside Sparrow

August 10

1Marbled Godwit
1Pectoral Sandpiper