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Recent reports from Hatteras Point

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

August 13

4Mourning Dove
2American Oystercatcher
10Black-bellied Plover
35Piping Plover
3Marbled Godwit
2Short-billed Dowitcher
2Spotted Sandpiper
35Willet
3Greater Yellowlegs
5Ruddy Turnstone
50Sanderling
5Least Sandpiper
3Semipalmated Sandpiper
105Laughing Gull
1Ring-billed Gull
5American Herring Gull
275Black Skimmer
105Least Tern
1Gull-billed Tern
205Black Tern
2Forster's Tern
250Common Tern
1Roseate Tern
135Sandwich Tern
175Royal Tern
12Double-crested Cormorant
3Black-crowned Night Heron
1Snowy Egret
30Brown Pelican
2Purple Martin
1Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Northern Mockingbird
1Eastern Towhee
8Red-winged Blackbird
1Northern Cardinal

August 11

70Semipalmated Plover
2Red Knot
7Great Black-backed Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2White Ibis
5Tricolored Heron
1Great Egret
7Barn Swallow
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat

August 10

1Solitary Sandpiper
1Sooty Tern
1Green Heron
2Great Blue Heron
1Belted Kingfisher
2Eastern Kingbird
1European Starling

August 9

2Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Clapper Rail
2Killdeer
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
8Lesser Yellowlegs
6Stilt Sandpiper
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
1Brown Thrasher
3American Robin
6House Finch
2Song Sparrow
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Grackle
3Prairie Warbler