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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.

July 22

20American Black Duck
4Mourning Dove
5Black-necked Stilt
3American Oystercatcher
7Black-bellied Plover
8Hudsonian Whimbrel
20Marbled Godwit
35Short-billed Dowitcher
1Solitary Sandpiper
10Lesser Yellowlegs
5Willet
15Greater Yellowlegs
5Stilt Sandpiper
15Sanderling
25Least Sandpiper
2Pectoral Sandpiper
5Semipalmated Sandpiper
175Laughing Gull
20American Herring Gull
8Great Black-backed Gull
205Lesser Black-backed Gull
105Black Skimmer
20Least Tern
2Caspian Tern
8Black Tern
35Forster's Tern
1Common Tern
15Sandwich Tern
150Royal Tern
8Double-crested Cormorant
5Tricolored Heron
8Snowy Egret
10Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
5Brown Pelican
5Red-winged Blackbird
10Boat-tailed Grackle

July 21

25Canada Goose
1Wilson's Phalarope
3Western Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
2Purple Martin
1Eastern Meadowlark
1Clapper Rail
1Killdeer
2White Ibis
1Turkey Vulture
1Barn Swallow

July 19

2Little Blue Heron
1Osprey
1Song Sparrow

July 18

1Gadwall
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Eastern Towhee
12Brown-headed Cowbird