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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.

October 5

80Canada Goose ✓
80Blue-winged Teal ✓
40Northern Shoveler ✓
20Gadwall ✓
300American Wigeon ✓
2Mallard ✓
30American Black Duck ✓
3000Northern Pintail ✓
60Green-winged Teal ✓
2Mourning Dove ✓
60American Avocet ✓
2Semipalmated Plover ✓
40Marbled Godwit ✓
10Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
15Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
10Willet ✓
12Greater Yellowlegs ✓
15Dunlin ✓
10Least Sandpiper ✓
5Semipalmated Sandpiper ✓
25Laughing Gull ✓
XAmerican Herring Gull ✓
XGreat Black-backed Gull ✓
XLesser Black-backed Gull ✓
XBlack Skimmer ✓
XCaspian Tern ✓
XForster's Tern ✓
XRoyal Tern ✓
30Double-crested Cormorant ✓
12White Ibis ✓
10Little Blue Heron ✓
20Tricolored Heron ✓
1Reddish Egret
100Snowy Egret ✓
200Great Egret ✓
8Great Blue Heron ✓
25American White Pelican ✓
10Brown Pelican ✓
2Osprey ✓
2Northern Harrier ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
3House Finch ✓
4Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
2Black-bellied Plover ✓
1Eastern Meadowlark ✓

October 4

7Black-necked Stilt ✓
20Sanderling ✓
7Western Sandpiper ✓
4Ring-billed Gull ✓
1Black Tern ✓
4Common Tern ✓
50Sandwich Tern ✓
4Pied-billed Grebe ✓
2Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Northern Waterthrush ✓

October 2

1Eurasian Wigeon ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
4Killdeer ✓
3Long-billed Dowitcher ✓
2Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
4Barn Swallow ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
4European Starling ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
1Bobolink ✓
4Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
2Common Yellowthroat ✓
1Northern Yellow Warbler ✓
1Northern Cardinal ✓
1Dickcissel ✓

September 30

1American Redstart ✓