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Recent reports from Botany Bay Plantation WMA

Only the most recent report per species is shown. Some reports may be pending verification.

June 18

2Willet
10Laughing Gull
5Ring-billed Gull
3Least Tern
5Forster's Tern
1Wood Stork
1Tricolored Heron
3Brown Pelican
2Black Vulture
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Pileated Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
5American Crow
2Carolina Chickadee
5Purple Martin
2Carolina Wren
20Red-winged Blackbird
10Northern Cardinal
2Painted Bunting
2Roseate Spoonbill
1Snowy Egret
1Great Egret
1Eastern Wood-Pewee
2Eastern Bluebird
1Pine Warbler
1Summer Tanager
2American Oystercatcher
8Wilson's Plover
1Double-crested Cormorant
1Great Blue Heron
7Turkey Vulture
1Downy Woodpecker
2Eastern Kingbird
1Fish Crow
1Tufted Titmouse
2Barn Swallow
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1House Finch
1Orchard Oriole
1Brown-headed Cowbird
2Common Grackle
1Boat-tailed Grackle

June 15

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Black-necked Stilt
1Black Skimmer
1Red-headed Woodpecker
3White-eyed Vireo
2Blue Jay
1Eastern Towhee
1Common Yellowthroat
1Black Scoter
1Common Ground Dove
24Mourning Dove
1Killdeer
13Semipalmated Plover
2Ruddy Turnstone
2Red Knot
2Sanderling
1Gull-billed Tern
1Caspian Tern
2Sandwich Tern
6Royal Tern
1Magnificent Frigatebird
2White Ibis
5Little Blue Heron
1Green Heron
2Osprey
1Mississippi Kite
1Hairy Woodpecker
1Red-eyed Vireo
1White-breasted Nuthatch
12Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Marsh Wren
1Brown Thrasher
4Northern Mockingbird
1American Goldfinch
1Prothonotary Warbler
10Northern Parula
3Blue Grosbeak
4Indigo Bunting

June 13

1Black-bellied Plover
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
1American Herring Gull
1Western Cattle-Egret

June 12

2Mottled Duck
1Swallow-tailed Kite
1Yellow-throated Vireo
1Yellow-throated Warbler
2Chimney Swift
1Belted Kingfisher
2Chipping Sparrow