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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 15

7Common Gallinule ✓
1Purple Gallinule ✓
1Pied-billed Grebe ✓
6Anhinga ✓
2White Ibis ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
2Great Egret ✓
1Great Blue Heron ✓
1Turkey Vulture ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
2Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Eastern Bluebird ✓
1Northern Waterthrush ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
3American Redstart ✓
1Northern Parula ✓
2Pine Warbler ✓
1Northern Cardinal ✓
1Mourning Dove ✓
4Sora ✓
1Killdeer ✓
2Royal Tern ✓
1Double-crested Cormorant ✓
3Snowy Egret ✓
1Osprey ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
2Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
3Downy Woodpecker ✓
2Northern Flicker ✓
4Eastern Phoebe ✓
1Blue Jay ✓
5Carolina Chickadee ✓
2Tufted Titmouse ✓
5Tree Swallow ✓
1Barn Swallow ✓
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
1Marsh Wren ✓
4Carolina Wren ✓
4Gray Catbird ✓
3Savannah Sparrow ✓
2Swamp Sparrow ✓
48Red-winged Blackbird ✓
4Common Grackle ✓
2Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1Tennessee Warbler ✓
1Northern Yellow Warbler ✓
1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
17Palm Warbler ✓
1Yellow-throated Warbler ✓
14Indigo Bunting ✓
2Clapper Rail ✓

October 14

1Yellow-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
2White-eyed Vireo ✓
1Red-eyed Vireo ✓
1Loggerhead Shrike ✓
3American Crow ✓
2Hermit Thrush ✓
2American Robin ✓
2House Finch ✓
1Black Vulture ✓
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
2Cedar Waxwing ✓
1Black-billed Cuckoo
4American Coot ✓
1American Bittern ✓
1Eastern Wood-Pewee ✓
1Great Crested Flycatcher ✓
5Fish Crow ✓
1Swainson's Thrush ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
3Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
1Dickcissel ✓

October 13

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo ✓
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow ✓

October 12

1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
2Painted Bunting ✓
1Eurasian Collared-Dove ✓
1Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
1Cape May Warbler ✓
1Magnolia Warbler ✓
1Black-throated Green Warbler ✓
1Eastern Meadowlark ✓
1Barred Owl ✓

October 11

2Forster's Tern ✓
XGlossy Ibis ✓
1Merlin ✓
2Blackburnian Warbler ✓
1Green Heron ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
2Bobolink ✓
8Black-bellied Whistling-Duck ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓

October 10

4Blue-winged Teal ✓
1Common Nighthawk ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
1Great Horned Owl ✓
1American Kestrel ✓
1Chimney Swift ✓

October 9

1Wood Duck ✓
23European Starling ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
1Blackpoll Warbler ✓
1Scarlet Tanager ✓
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓