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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 8

1Canada Goose ✓
20Blue-winged Teal ✓
30Northern Shoveler ✓
30Northern Pintail ✓
1Black-bellied Plover ✓
2Killdeer ✓
2Semipalmated Plover ✓
8Marbled Godwit ✓
8Greater Yellowlegs ✓
6Western Sandpiper ✓
8Laughing Gull ✓
12Double-crested Cormorant ✓
30White Ibis ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
4Tricolored Heron ✓
50Great Egret ✓
3Great Blue Heron ✓
30American White Pelican ✓
4Boat-tailed Grackle ✓

October 7

5American Black Duck ✓
130American Avocet ✓
1Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Willet ✓
2Dunlin ✓
2American Herring Gull ✓
4Great Black-backed Gull ✓
20Black Skimmer ✓
3Forster's Tern ✓
2Royal Tern ✓
3Snowy Egret ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
6Palm Warbler ✓
4Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
120American Wigeon ✓
3Mourning Dove ✓
4Black-necked Stilt ✓
8Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
15Sanderling ✓
10Semipalmated Sandpiper ✓
5Ring-billed Gull ✓
4Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
25Caspian Tern ✓
1Common Tern ✓
8Sandwich Tern ✓
4Pied-billed Grebe ✓
1Reddish Egret
5Brown Pelican ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
2Northern Flicker ✓
1Merlin ✓
3Tree Swallow ✓
2Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
1Eastern Meadowlark ✓
1Northern Waterthrush ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
2Northern Cardinal ✓

October 5

20Gadwall ✓
2Mallard ✓
60Green-winged Teal ✓
10Least Sandpiper ✓
2Osprey ✓
3House Finch ✓

October 4

1Black Tern ✓
2Red-winged Blackbird ✓

October 3

1Bald Eagle ✓