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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 18

2Blue-winged Teal
20American Black Duck
15Northern Pintail
8Black-necked Stilt
55American Avocet
20Black-bellied Plover
1Killdeer
8Semipalmated Plover
55Marbled Godwit
10Short-billed Dowitcher
4Lesser Yellowlegs
8Willet
5Greater Yellowlegs
5Western Sandpiper
15Semipalmated Sandpiper
400Laughing Gull
1Ring-billed Gull
5American Herring Gull
200Black Skimmer
12Caspian Tern
4Black Tern
55Forster's Tern
75Royal Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
1Great Cormorant
5Double-crested Cormorant
50White Ibis
8Little Blue Heron
65Tricolored Heron
1Reddish Egret
95Snowy Egret
120Great Egret
2Brown Pelican
2Boat-tailed Grackle
30Sanderling
6Sandwich Tern
15Great Blue Heron
1Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-winged Blackbird
15Canada Goose
3Green-winged Teal
1Least Sandpiper
1Pectoral Sandpiper
14European Starling
1Common Grackle

September 17

15Northern Shoveler
2Gadwall
1Northern Cardinal

September 16

1Great Black-backed Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull

September 14

1Mourning Dove
1Northern Harrier
2Belted Kingfisher
6Mallard
1Clapper Rail
1Piping Plover
1Merlin
1Eastern Kingbird
1Baltimore Oriole
1Common Yellowthroat
1Hudsonian Godwit
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Ruddy Turnstone
2Stilt Sandpiper
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Green Heron
3Northern Mockingbird
1American Robin
2House Sparrow