Site Report: Cape May Ferry to Cape Henelope, Deleware

Brown-headed Nuthatch (Sitta pusilla)

Atlantic Ghost Crab (Ocypode quadrata)

Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)



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Brown-headed Nuthatch (Sitta pusilla)

Atlantic Ghost Crab (Ocypode quadrata)

Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)
You can take the ferry from Cape May to a state park in Delaware
Visits
No visit reports available.Species Seen
Kingdom: Animals (28 records)
Phylum: Arthropods
(1 record)
Class: Malacostracans
(1 record)
- Order: Crabs
(1 record)
- Family: Ghost Crabs
- Atlantic Ghost Crab (Ocypode quadrata)
Phylum: Chordates
(27 records)
Class: Birds
(25 records)
- Order: Doves and Pigeons
(2 records)
- Family: Pigeons and Doves
- Rock Pigeon (Columba livia)
- Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)
- Order: Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Allies
(1 record)
- Family: Osprey
- Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
- Order: Hummingbirds and Swifts
(1 record)
- Family: Hummingbirds
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)
- Order: Pelicans
(4 records)
- Family: Cormorants
- Double-crested Cormorant (Nannopterum auritum)
- Family: Pelicans
- Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)
- Family: Sandpipers and Allies
- Sanderling (Calidris alba)
- Pectoral Sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)
- Order: Perching Birds
(11 records)
- Family: Cardinals and Allies
- Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)
- Family: New World Warblers
- American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)
- Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas)
- Family: Nuthatches
- Brown-headed Nuthatch (Sitta pusilla)
- Family: Old World Buntings
- Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
- Family: Old World Sparrows
- House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
- Family: Starlings and Mynas
- European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
- Family: Swallows
- Purple Martin (Progne subis)
- Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
- Family: Thrushes and Allies
- American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
- Family: Tyrant Flycatchers
- Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus)
- Order: Shorebirds and Allies
(3 records)
- Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
- Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus)
- Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla)
- Family: Plovers
- Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)
- Order: Tubenoses
(1 record)
- Family: Southern Storm Petrels
- Wilson's Storm-Petrel (Oceanites oceanicus)
- Order: Vultures
(1 record)
- Family: New World Vultures
- Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)
- Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Honeyguides
(1 record)
- Family: Piculets and Woodpeckers
- Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)
Class: Mammals
(2 records)
- Order: Carnivorans
(1 record)
- Family: Canidae
- Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)
- Order: Even-toed Ungalates and Cetacean
(1 record)
- Family: Delphinidae
- Tamanend's Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops erebennus)