Date: 8/18/26 7:27 am From: Patricia McLean <000008e6fff5e5c8-dmarc-request...> Subject: Bald Knob NWR Update, Aug 17
The number of shorebirds and waders has grown exponentially over the past week with several species coming and going. And we got some much-needed rain out there too!!
Recent birds of interest, not including the more common ones:
DUCKSBlack-bellied Whistling-Duck Fulvous Whistling-Duck (altho may have moved to an inaccessible area on the refuge)
TERNSBlack TernForster's Tern Least Tern
SHOREBIRDSWilson's PhalaropeStilt SandpiperShort-billed and Long-billed DowitcherWilson's Snipe Upland SandpiperBlack-bellied PloverSemipalmated PloverBaird's SandpiperWestern Sandpiper
WADERSRoseate SpoonbillBlack-crowned Night-heron White Ibis Glossy Ibis and an unidentifiable juvenile dark ibis Tricolored Heron (which was seen only one morning at the south pond on Mingo Creek Road)
MISCELLANEOUS/OTHERNeotropic Cormorant (only on Mingo Creek Rd in south pond)Swallow-tailed Kite (seen one morning only--Aug 10)Large flocks of Mississippi Kites (100+)Sedge WrenNorthern Bobwhite (we had 50+ fly across the road in front of us, just east of Mingo Creek Rd)
Patty McLean and Michael Linz The Roadrunners
