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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 17

7Blue-winged Teal
15Northern Shoveler
2Gadwall
9American Black Duck
5Black-necked Stilt
56American Avocet
25Black-bellied Plover
2Killdeer
3Semipalmated Plover
3Marbled Godwit
6Short-billed Dowitcher
1Lesser Yellowlegs
2Willet
11Greater Yellowlegs
8Semipalmated Sandpiper
25Laughing Gull
3American Herring Gull
250Black Skimmer
6Caspian Tern
75Forster's Tern
18Royal Tern
3Double-crested Cormorant
65White Ibis
3Little Blue Heron
12Tricolored Heron
58Snowy Egret
178Great Egret
3Great Blue Heron
3Brown Pelican
2Red-winged Blackbird
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Northern Cardinal

September 16

6Canada Goose
6Northern Pintail
5Sanderling
20Ring-billed Gull
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Black Tern

September 14

1Mourning Dove
2Pied-billed Grebe
1Great Cormorant
1Reddish Egret
1Northern Harrier
2Belted Kingfisher
6Mallard
1Clapper Rail
1Piping Plover
8Least Sandpiper
2Sandwich Tern
1Osprey
1Merlin
1Eastern Kingbird
1Baltimore Oriole
1Common Yellowthroat
1Hudsonian Godwit
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Ruddy Turnstone
2Stilt Sandpiper
6Western Sandpiper
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Green Heron
1Cooper's Hawk
18European Starling
3Northern Mockingbird
1American Robin
2House Sparrow
3Common Grackle

September 13

8Green-winged Teal
10Pectoral Sandpiper
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Glossy Ibis
1Turkey Vulture
2American Crow
1Common Tern
1Wilson's Phalarope
1Purple Martin

September 12

2Least Tern
1American Bittern
8Fish Crow

September 11

1Dunlin
1Northern Yellow Warbler