Location: Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Ned Brinkley & Jeff
Gordon and party
Observation date: 9/20/08
Notes: Birding Festival trip
Number of species: 77
Canada Goose - Branta canadensis 66
Canada Goose hybrids (??) - 4
American Black Duck - Anas rubripes 12
Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos 34
Blue-winged Teal - Anas discors 1
Northern Pintail - Anas acuta 8
Lesser Scaup - Aythya affinis 1 Swan Cove
Brown Pelican - Pelecanus occidentalis 1
Double-crested Cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritus 45
Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias 12
Great Egret - Ardea alba 57
Snowy Egret - Egretta thula 45
Little Blue Heron - Egretta caerulea 33
Tricolored Heron - Egretta tricolor 12
Cattle Egret - Bubulcus ibis 10
Green Heron - Butorides virescens 1
Turkey Vulture - Cathartes aura 15
Osprey - Pandion haliaetus 3
Bald Eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalus 2
Northern Harrier - Circus cyaneus 1
Merlin - Falco columbarius 2
Peregrine Falcon - Falco peregrinus 4
Black-bellied Plover - Pluvialis squatarola 4 juveniles
American Golden-Plover - Pluvialis dominica 3 Snow Goose Pool
Semipalmated Plover - Charadrius semipalmatus 70
Killdeer - Charadrius vociferus 7
Solitary Sandpiper - Tringa solitaria 2
Greater Yellowlegs - Tringa melanoleuca 6
Willet - Tringa semipalmata 45 All Westerns (inornata)
Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes 8
Marbled Godwit - Limosa fedoa 15 Swan Cove
Ruddy Turnstone - Arenaria interpres 2
Sanderling - Calidris alba 34
Semipalmated Sandpiper - Calidris pusilla 35
Western Sandpiper - Calidris mauri 1 Wash Flats
Least Sandpiper - Calidris minutilla 60
White-rumped Sandpiper - Calidris fuscicollis 1 Swan Cove
Baird's Sandpiper - Calidris bairdii 1 Snow Goose Pool
Pectoral Sandpiper - Calidris melanotos 45 Snow Goose Pool (north side)
Dunlin - Calidris alpina 1 Swan Cove
Buff-breasted Sandpiper - Tryngites subruficollis 3 Wash Flats, Snow
Goose Pool
Short-billed Dowitcher - Limnodromus griseus 4
Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher - Limnodromus griseus/scolopaceus 25
Wilson's Phalarope - Phalaropus tricolor 2 Swan Cove
Laughing Gull - Leucophaeus atricilla 230
Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis 7
Herring Gull - Larus argentatus 50
Lesser Black-backed Gull - Larus fuscus 4 Wash Flats
Great Black-backed Gull - Larus marinus 2
Caspian Tern - Hydroprogne caspia 43
Forster's Tern - Sterna forsteri 50
Royal Tern - Thalasseus maximus 74
Sandwich Tern - Thalasseus sandvicensis 39 Swan Cove
Black Skimmer - Rynchops niger 45
Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura 4
Belted Kingfisher - Megaceryle alcyon 1
Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens 2
Eastern Wood-Pewee - Contopus virens 2
Blue Jay - Cyanocitta cristata 12
Tree Swallow - Tachycineta bicolor 600
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - Stelgidopteryx serripennis 1
Carolina Chickadee - Poecile carolinensis 6
Brown-headed Nuthatch - Sitta pusilla 11
American Robin - Turdus migratorius 9
Gray Catbird - Dumetella carolinensis 1
Brown Thrasher - Toxostoma rufum 1
European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris 30
Black-throated Green Warbler - Dendroica virens 1
Pine Warbler - Dendroica pinus 10
Black-and-white Warbler - Mniotilta varia 1
American Redstart - Setophaga ruticilla 2
Savannah Sparrow - Passerculus sandwichensis 2
Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinalis 3
Blue Grosbeak - Passerina caerulea 1
Red-winged Blackbird - Agelaius phoeniceus 200
Boat-tailed Grackle - Quiscalus major 35
Brown-headed Cowbird - Molothrus ater 4
Baltimore Oriole - Icterus galbula 1
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
Ned Brinkley
Cape Charles, VA
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