Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Newbury US-MA 42.75090, -70.79942, Essex, Massachusetts, US

Aug 21, 2024 3:41 PM – 7:06 PM

Protocol: Traveling

9.272 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk AT PRNWR

32 species

Canada Goose  24

Gadwall  2

Mallard  15

American Black Duck  11

Green-winged Teal  1

Killdeer  3

Hudsonian Godwit  1

Short-billed Dowitcher  13

Long-billed Dowitcher  1

Spotted Sandpiper  1

Lesser Yellowlegs  3

Greater Yellowlegs  13

Semipalmated Sandpiper  68

Herring Gull  5

Least Tern  2

Forster’s Tern  3

Double-crested Cormorant  16

Yellow-crowned Night Heron  1    Juvenile bird continuing at north pool

Black-crowned Night Heron  1

Snowy Egret  8

Great Egret  17

Great Blue Heron  5

Osprey  4

Downy Woodpecker  1

Eastern Kingbird  7

Tree Swallow  140

Gray Catbird  4

Cedar Waxwing  1

American Goldfinch  4

Baltimore Oriole  1

Red-winged Blackbird  1

Yellow Warbler  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S192816743

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