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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 2

15Black-bellied Plover ✓
7Semipalmated Plover ✓
4Greater Yellowlegs ✓
75Sanderling ✓
3Dunlin ✓
8Laughing Gull ✓
5American Herring Gull ✓
45Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
50Sandwich Tern ✓
20Royal Tern ✓
6Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Great Egret ✓
2Brown Pelican ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
2Northern Mockingbird ✓
4Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1American Redstart ✓
26Blue-winged Teal ✓
5Mourning Dove ✓
1Common Nighthawk ✓
1Clapper Rail ✓
1Killdeer ✓
2Willet ✓
8Great Black-backed Gull ✓
4Black Skimmer ✓
37Caspian Tern ✓
15Common Tern ✓
2White Ibis ✓
1Glossy Ibis ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
2Carolina Wren ✓
57European Starling ✓
1Bobolink ✓
15Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Common Grackle ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
10Common Yellowthroat ✓
2Cape May Warbler ✓
1Northern Parula ✓
2Palm Warbler ✓
1Black-throated Green Warbler ✓
2Northern Cardinal ✓

October 1

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo ✓
1Osprey ✓

September 30

3Piping Plover ✓
1Hudsonian Whimbrel ✓
2Ruddy Turnstone ✓
1Semipalmated Sandpiper ✓
2Ring-billed Gull ✓
14Forster's Tern ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
1Merlin ✓
1White-eyed Vireo ✓
2Red-eyed Vireo ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
2Eastern Towhee ✓
1Baltimore Oriole ✓
1Blue Grosbeak ✓