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Recent reports from Hatteras Point

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

September 12

4Mourning Dove
3American Oystercatcher
20Black-bellied Plover
16Semipalmated Plover
1Piping Plover
1Willet
5Greater Yellowlegs
14Ruddy Turnstone
12Red Knot
55Sanderling
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
250Laughing Gull
3Ring-billed Gull
50American Herring Gull
45Great Black-backed Gull
38Lesser Black-backed Gull
550Black Skimmer
1Least Tern
45Caspian Tern
5Black Tern
65Forster's Tern
305Common Tern
1Roseate Tern
250Sandwich Tern
275Royal Tern
25Double-crested Cormorant
1White Ibis
7Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
2Great Egret
250Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Merlin
1Eastern Kingbird
1Philadelphia Vireo
1Red-eyed Vireo
2Carolina Wren
2Gray Catbird
1Cedar Waxwing
5House Finch
4Eastern Towhee
1Bobolink
2Baltimore Oriole
2Boat-tailed Grackle
3Ovenbird
1Black-and-white Warbler
4Common Yellowthroat
3American Redstart
2Cape May Warbler
1Bay-breasted Warbler
1Yellow Warbler
1Black-throated Blue Warbler
1Palm Warbler
4Prairie Warbler
1Townsend's Warbler
2Northern Cardinal

September 11

25Rock Pigeon
1Clapper Rail
1Wilson's Plover
1Whimbrel
6Short-billed Dowitcher
3Solitary Sandpiper
2Lesser Yellowlegs
10Least Sandpiper
5Pectoral Sandpiper
1Great Blue Heron
4Turkey Vulture
1Cooper's Hawk
1Belted Kingfisher
1Purple Martin
1Brown Thrasher
2Red-winged Blackbird
2Northern Waterthrush
1Northern Parula
1Blackburnian Warbler

September 10

2White-rumped Sandpiper
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Killdeer
17Marbled Godwit
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Little Blue Heron
1Reddish Egret
1Magnolia Warbler
1Blue Grosbeak

September 7

3Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2Stilt Sandpiper
1Western Sandpiper
1Little Gull
1Bank Swallow
32Barn Swallow