Bird Sightings on Martha’s Vineyard: July 2024
Common grackles.
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Black-bellied plover (juvenile).
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American black duck.
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Stilt sandpiper.
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Bonaparte's gull.
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Spotted sandpiper.
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Semipalmated plover.
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Whimbrel.
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Bobolink.
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Red knots.
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Turkey poults.
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Forster's tern.
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Two osprey.
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Common raven.
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Red-bellied woodpecker.
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Saltmarsh sparrow.
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Short-billed dowitcher.
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Downy woodpeckers feed their chick.
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Ruby-throated hummingbird.
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Lesser yellowlegs.
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Peregrine falcon.
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Lesser black-backed gull with a herring gull.
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Ruddy turnstone.
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July is prime season for shorebirds and summer residents. It is also the season for baby birds, and adult birds are busy bringing food to their young. Southbound migrants are also starting to appear.
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