Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

Plum Island–Parker River NWR & Sandy Pt. State Reservation, Essex, Massachusetts, US

Aug 24, 2026 8:07 AM – 10:53 AM

Protocol: Traveling

9.498 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird club marsh cruise 37 passengers.

29 species (+5 other taxa)

Canada Goose  20

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  17

Mourning Dove  1

Black-bellied Plover  72

Semipalmated Plover  14

Lesser Yellowlegs  11

Willet  24    Long trip, lots of observation pounts from moving boat

Greater Yellowlegs  12

Lesser/Greater Yellowlegs  2

Semipalmated Sandpiper  60

peep sp.  188

shorebird sp.  3

Bonaparte’s Gull  1

American Herring Gull  82    Estimate

Great Black-backed Gull  7

Common Tern  8

Double-crested Cormorant  63

Black-crowned Night Heron  1

Snowy Egret  21

Great Egret  27

Great Blue Heron  9

Turkey Vulture  2

Osprey  17

Northern Harrier  2

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Peregrine Falcon  2

Tree Swallow  360    Estimate , constant presence of low numbers

Barn Swallow  3

swallow sp.  80    Estimate up sun flock

Marsh Wren  6

European Starling  22

American Goldfinch  1

Saltmarsh Sparrow  3

new world sparrow sp.  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S386814224

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