Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US

Aug 31, 2025 9:15 AM – 2:30 PM

Protocol: Traveling

6.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Walk – Plum Island – Leader Nick Paulson. 9 participants. Warm, sunny, slight breeze. A little bit of a slow day for the refuge, tons of Tree Swallows.

54 species (+2 other taxa)

Gadwall  4

Green-winged Teal (American)  4

Common Eider (Dresser’s)  10

White-winged Scoter  2

Mourning Dove  1

Semipalmated Plover  25

Short-billed Dowitcher  8

Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher  1    Possibly Long-billed

Lesser Yellowlegs  12

Greater Yellowlegs  10

Stilt Sandpiper  1

Sanderling  5

White-rumped Sandpiper  10

Least Sandpiper  40

Semipalmated Sandpiper  30

Laughing Gull  1

Ring-billed Gull  5

American Herring Gull  30

Great Black-backed Gull  5

Common Tern  25

Sterna sp.  10    One possible Forster’s

Double-crested Cormorant  80

Snowy Egret  4

Great Egret  20

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  5

Turkey Vulture  2

Osprey (American)  8

Northern Harrier  1

Bald Eagle  1

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Merlin (Taiga)  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Eastern Kingbird  2

Blue Jay  3

American Crow  2

Common Raven  2

Black-capped Chickadee  5

Tree Swallow  3000

Barn Swallow (American)  2

Red-breasted Nuthatch  1

European Starling  200

Gray Catbird  4

Cedar Waxwing  12

American Pipit  1    Flyover at the salt pannes heading S. Slender bodied, tawny below, white outer tail feathers.

Purple Finch  1

American Goldfinch  8

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  4

Eastern Towhee  3

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  3

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  1

Common Yellowthroat  1

American Redstart  1

Blackburnian Warbler  1

Yellow Warbler (Northern)  1

Black-throated Green Warbler  2

Northern Cardinal  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S270937836

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