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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.

September 13

6Canada Goose
3Blue-winged Teal
13American Black Duck
10Northern Pintail
8Green-winged Teal
2Black-necked Stilt
3Black-bellied Plover
4Killdeer
6Semipalmated Plover
1Hudsonian Godwit
48Marbled Godwit
3Short-billed Dowitcher
27Lesser Yellowlegs
2Greater Yellowlegs
21Least Sandpiper
10Pectoral Sandpiper
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
168Laughing Gull
1Great Black-backed Gull
510Black Skimmer
9Black Tern
3Forster's Tern
13Royal Tern
8Double-crested Cormorant
6Little Blue Heron
5Tricolored Heron
25Snowy Egret
92Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
9Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Northern Harrier
1Northern Mockingbird
82Red-winged Blackbird
6Boat-tailed Grackle
1Northern Shoveler
2Mallard
3Mourning Dove
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
5Sanderling
2Ring-billed Gull
1Caspian Tern
2Glossy Ibis
1Turkey Vulture
1Belted Kingfisher
2American Crow
22European Starling
2Gadwall
4Willet
2Western Sandpiper
4American Herring Gull
1Common Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
6White Ibis
1Reddish Egret
10American Avocet
1Piping Plover
1Wilson's Phalarope
1Stilt Sandpiper
1Merlin
1Purple Martin
1Common Yellowthroat

September 12

1Common Grackle
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Least Tern
9Sandwich Tern
1American Bittern
8Fish Crow

September 11

3Ruddy Turnstone
1Dunlin
1Northern Yellow Warbler
1Solitary Sandpiper