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Recent reports from Savannah NWR--Laurel Hill Wildlife Dr

Only the most recent report per species is shown. Some reports may be pending verification.

October 30

2Sora ✓
14Common Gallinule ✓
1Black-bellied Plover ✓
1Killdeer ✓
20Anhinga ✓
1Double-crested Cormorant ✓
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron ✓
3Little Blue Heron ✓
4Snowy Egret ✓
2Green Heron ✓
5Great Egret ✓
3Great Blue Heron ✓
3Turkey Vulture ✓
4Northern Harrier ✓
2Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
11Eastern Phoebe ✓
1Barn Swallow ✓
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
2Sedge Wren ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
6Gray Catbird ✓
2Brown Thrasher ✓
2Northern Mockingbird ✓
1American Robin ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓
1White-throated Sparrow ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
3Song Sparrow ✓
1Lincoln's Sparrow
7Swamp Sparrow ✓
3Eastern Towhee ✓
1Eastern Meadowlark ✓
8Red-winged Blackbird ✓
5Common Grackle ✓
3Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
2Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
4Northern Cardinal ✓

October 29

1Clapper Rail ✓
10Black Vulture ✓
6Tree Swallow ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Northern Parula ✓
2American Coot ✓
2White Ibis ✓
1Brown Pelican ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1American Redstart ✓
3Pied-billed Grebe ✓
1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
3Blue Jay ✓
1Hermit Thrush ✓
2Blue-winged Teal ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
1Osprey ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1American Kestrel ✓
1Northern Waterthrush
1Palm Warbler ✓
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo ✓
1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
3Prairie Warbler ✓

October 28

1White-eyed Vireo ✓
4American Crow ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
2Laughing Gull ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
2Carolina Chickadee ✓
2House Finch ✓
1Sharp-shinned Hawk ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Eastern Marsh Wren ✓
1Purple Gallinule ✓
2Northern Shoveler ✓
2Ring-necked Duck ✓
2Mourning Dove ✓
1Pectoral Sandpiper ✓
1Ring-billed Gull ✓
1Royal Tern ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
3Indigo Bunting ✓

October 27

1Forster's Tern ✓
1Chimney Swift ✓
2Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
7Wood Stork ✓
1Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Cape May Warbler ✓
1Great Horned Owl ✓
1Loggerhead Shrike ✓
1Vesper Sparrow ✓

October 26

2Wood Duck ✓
2Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Barred Owl ✓
2Bobolink ✓
1Wilson's Snipe ✓
1American Bittern ✓
6Northern Pintail ✓
1Eastern Wood-Pewee ✓
1Tennessee Warbler ✓
1Northern Yellow Warbler ✓

October 25

2Black-necked Stilt
1American Pipit ✓
3Mallard ✓
1Greater Yellowlegs ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
10Brown-headed Cowbird ✓

October 24

2Glossy Ibis ✓