Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Sep 12, 2020 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
6.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments:    BBC – Plum Island – Leader Nickilas Paulson
Lot 1 to Lot 5.
58 species (+2 other taxa)
Gadwall  1
Mallard  6
American Black Duck  7
Green-winged Teal  40
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Mourning Dove  2
Chimney Swift  1
Black-bellied Plover  22
American Golden-Plover  1
Semipalmated Plover  200
Killdeer  1
Hudsonian Godwit  1
Marbled Godwit  1    Flyover calling, second check at hell at dike.
Red Knot  2
Dunlin  1
Least Sandpiper  25
White-rumped Sandpiper  3
Pectoral Sandpiper  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  150
Short-billed Dowitcher  6
Long-billed Dowitcher  1
Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher  25
Greater Yellowlegs  25
Lesser Yellowlegs  12
Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs  40
Herring Gull (American)  7
Great Black-backed Gull  1
Double-crested Cormorant  32
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  2
Great Egret  80
Snowy Egret  12
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  2
Osprey (carolinensis)  1
Cooper’s Hawk  1
Belted Kingfisher  1
Peregrine Falcon  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Red-eyed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  9
Common Raven  6
Black-capped Chickadee  5
Tree Swallow  75
Red-breasted Nuthatch  3
European Starling  80
Gray Catbird  11
American Robin  18
House Sparrow  2
American Goldfinch  2
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  1
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  3
Eastern Towhee  6
Black-and-white Warbler  1
Tennessee Warbler  1
Bay-breasted Warbler  1
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Blackpoll Warbler  1
Pine Warbler  1
Northern Cardinal  3
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S73688223

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