Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US
May 7, 2016 6:30 AM – 8:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling
6.0 mile(s)
Comments:     BBC – Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Bike – Leaders: Laura de la Flor and Mark Burns – 46 degrees, cloudy, NE wind
53 species

Canada Goose  3
Mute Swan  2
American Black Duck  20
Mallard  60
Green-winged Teal  48
Wild Turkey  3
Common Loon  1
Great Blue Heron  1
Great Egret  8
Osprey  1
Northern Harrier  1
American Golden-Plover  1     Observed on Brookline Bird Club trip by leaders and participants
Killdeer  1
Greater Yellowlegs  5
Willet  20
Ring-billed Gull  5
Herring Gull  3
Great Black-backed Gull  4
Mourning Dove  6
Downy Woodpecker  3
Merlin  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
Blue-headed Vireo  1
Blue Jay  8
American Crow  15
Purple Martin  5
Tree Swallow  60
Barn Swallow  3
Black-capped Chickadee  7
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Marsh Wren  8
American Robin  12
Brown Thrasher  2
Northern Mockingbird  6
European Starling  5
Cedar Waxwing  8
Common Yellowthroat  1
Yellow Warbler  17
Palm Warbler  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  5
Chipping Sparrow  3
White-throated Sparrow  9
Savannah Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  4
Swamp Sparrow  2
Eastern Towhee  32
Northern Cardinal  6
Red-winged Blackbird  33
Common Grackle  45
Orchard Oriole  1
Purple Finch  12
American Goldfinch  8
House Sparrow  6

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S29884255

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