eBird Report:
Location
Plum Island, Essex County, Massachusetts, US
Date and Effort
Sun Sep 27, 2015 8:00 AM
Protocol:Traveling
Party Size:12
Duration:3 hour(s), 20 minute(s)
Distance:3.0 mile(s)
Observers:Neil Hayward , Neil Hayward List
Comments:Brookline Bird Trip led by Neil Hayward
Species
39 species total
12 Canada Goose
30 American Black Duck
2 Mallard
1 Northern Shoveler
8 Northern Pintail
2 Green-winged Teal
4 Wild Turkey
1 Common Loon
3 Pied-billed Grebe
6 Double-crested Cormorant
2 Great Blue Heron
15 Great Egret
4 Snowy Egret
1 Turkey Vulture
3 Northern Harrier
45 Black-bellied Plover
1 American Golden-Plover
3 Greater Yellowlegs
25 Dunlin
6 Least Sandpiper
3 Pectoral Sandpiper
1 Long-billed Dowitcher
2 Downy Woodpecker
1 Peregrine Falcon
2 Eastern Phoebe
8 American Crow
30 Tree Swallow
1 White-breasted Nuthatch
5 American Robin
5 Gray Catbird
1 Brown Thrasher
1 Northern Mockingbird
2 Cedar Waxwing
1 American Redstart
1 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)
20 Savannah Sparrow
4 Song Sparrow
8 Eastern Towhee
2 American Goldfinch
Are you submitting a complete checklist of the birds you were able to identify?
Yes
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Westborough WMA in Two Parts
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