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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 11

12Canada Goose
1Garganey
1Blue-winged Teal
1Gadwall
1Mallard
13American Black Duck
1Black-necked Stilt
10American Avocet
1Killdeer
3Willet
2Laughing Gull
1Ring-billed Gull
25Black Skimmer
2Least Tern
7Royal Tern
11Double-crested Cormorant
2White Ibis
2Tricolored Heron
3Great Egret
2Brown Pelican
1Northern Mockingbird
1Eastern Towhee
4Red-winged Blackbird
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Lesser Yellowlegs
1Greater Yellowlegs
10Least Sandpiper
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Eastern Meadowlark
5Short-billed Dowitcher
1American Herring Gull
1Forster's Tern
2Snowy Egret

June 10

4Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Sandwich Tern
5Purple Martin
2Black-bellied Plover
6Caspian Tern
1Turkey Vulture
1Blue Grosbeak
1Semipalmated Plover
1Ruddy Turnstone
2European Starling
3Common Grackle
1Barn Swallow

June 9

1Great Black-backed Gull
2Dunlin
1Mourning Dove
1Great Blue Heron
1Common Yellowthroat

June 8

1American Oystercatcher
1Orchard Oriole
1Eastern Kingbird
1Osprey
3Fish Crow

June 7

3Northern Cardinal
1Brown-headed Cowbird
5White-rumped Sandpiper
1Little Blue Heron
1Black Tern

June 6

1Pied-billed Grebe
1Mallard x American Black Duck (hybrid)
3Brown Thrasher
2Marbled Godwit
1Sanderling
1Song Sparrow
5Red Knot
1Gull-billed Tern
1Virginia Rail