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Recent reports from Pea Island NWR--South Pond

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

June 17

4Canada Goose
1American Black Duck
5Black-necked Stilt
2Killdeer
8Laughing Gull
1Double-crested Cormorant
1Eastern Meadowlark
3Red-winged Blackbird
2Common Grackle
3Boat-tailed Grackle
1Garganey
4American Avocet
2Short-billed Dowitcher
8Black Skimmer
5Least Tern
1Tricolored Heron
2Great Egret
1Brown Pelican
1Seaside Sparrow
1Northern Cardinal
1Virginia Rail
1Lesser Yellowlegs
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Gadwall
1Semipalmated Plover
3Willet
6Caspian Tern
2Royal Tern
3White Ibis
2Bald Eagle

June 16

5Black-bellied Plover
2Black Tern
5Forster's Tern
2Snowy Egret
3Ruddy Turnstone
2American Herring Gull
1Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
1Common Yellowthroat
4Least Sandpiper
1Eastern Towhee
1Brown-headed Cowbird
1Blue Grosbeak

June 15

40Mallard
4Common Tern
1White-rumped Sandpiper
1Barn Swallow
1Mourning Dove
1Great Black-backed Gull
2Mallard x American Black Duck (hybrid)
1Northern Mockingbird
1Clapper Rail

June 14

1Eastern Kingbird
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Little Blue Heron

June 13

1Blue-winged Teal
1Turkey Vulture
2American Oystercatcher
2Black-crowned Night Heron
1Purple Martin

June 12

2European Starling
1Lesser Black-backed Gull

June 11

5Sandwich Tern
8House Finch
1Prairie Warbler
1Indigo Bunting
1Ring-billed Gull