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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 20

9Canada Goose
1Blue-winged Teal
30American Black Duck
4Black-necked Stilt
1American Avocet
1Willet
10Dunlin
14Laughing Gull
2Common Tern
20Double-crested Cormorant
1Tricolored Heron
2Great Egret
1Eastern Meadowlark
4Red-winged Blackbird
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Black-bellied Plover
2Killdeer
1Greater Yellowlegs
8Least Tern
1Snowy Egret
2Common Grackle
1Blue Grosbeak
1Garganey
4Semipalmated Plover
60Black Skimmer
1Sandwich Tern
8Royal Tern
5White Ibis
1Mallard
2Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
1American Oystercatcher
7Short-billed Dowitcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Ruddy Turnstone
3Least Sandpiper
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Ring-billed Gull
1Caspian Tern
2Forster's Tern
9Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Barn Swallow
6European Starling
1Northern Mockingbird
2House Finch
1Northern Cardinal
2American Herring Gull
1Great Blue Heron
1Blue Jay

June 18

1American Wigeon

June 17

1Seaside Sparrow
1Virginia Rail
1Lesser Yellowlegs
1Gadwall
2Bald Eagle

June 16

2Black Tern
1Common Yellowthroat
1Eastern Towhee
1Brown-headed Cowbird

June 15

4Sanderling
1White-rumped Sandpiper
1Great Black-backed Gull
2Mallard x American Black Duck (hybrid)

June 14

1Eastern Kingbird
1Little Blue Heron