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PI NWR Birding Safari



This mornings birding safari at Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge was fun
but not too productive.
The wind has been blowing at a steady 12/15 mph out here so it has kept
many birds out of sight.

Here is our list from the walk:
Pied-billed grebe
Brown Pelican
Double -crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Green-backed Heron
White Ibis
Canada Goose
American Black Duck
Gadwall
Osprey
American Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
American Oystercatcher
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willet
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Herring Gull
Royal tern
Sandwich tern
Forster's tern
Least Tern
Mourning Dove
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Barn Swallow
Fish Crow
marsh Wren
Northern Cardinal
Rufous-sided Towhee
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Boat-tailed grackle
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird

On 05-11-01 while scouting the area for this trip I also saw:

Red Knots
Gull-billed tern
Black Skimmers
Great Horned Owl
Carolina Wren
Grey Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
Eastern Meadowlark