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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 27

50Mourning Dove ✓
2Clapper Rail ✓
1American Avocet ✓
30Black-bellied Plover ✓
6Semipalmated Plover ✓
26Piping Plover ✓
15Marbled Godwit ✓
8Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
25Willet ✓
5Greater Yellowlegs ✓
7Ruddy Turnstone ✓
200Sanderling ✓
5Dunlin ✓
2Least Sandpiper ✓
7Western Sandpiper ✓
3Semipalmated Sandpiper ✓
250Laughing Gull ✓
4Ring-billed Gull ✓
35American Herring Gull ✓
30Great Black-backed Gull ✓
350Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
400Black Skimmer ✓
75Caspian Tern ✓
18Forster's Tern ✓
35Common Tern ✓
150Sandwich Tern ✓
250Royal Tern ✓
12Double-crested Cormorant ✓
2Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
2Great Egret ✓
1Great Blue Heron ✓
200Brown Pelican ✓
4Northern Flicker ✓
2Merlin ✓
8Red-eyed Vireo ✓
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
4Northern House Wren ✓
2Carolina Wren ✓
10Gray Catbird ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
2American Robin ✓
2Eastern Towhee ✓
1Ovenbird ✓
1Northern Waterthrush ✓
4Black-and-white Warbler ✓
1Prothonotary Warbler ✓
6Common Yellowthroat ✓
5American Redstart ✓
1Cape May Warbler ✓
4Northern Parula ✓
1Magnolia Warbler ✓
4Palm Warbler ✓
2Pine Warbler ✓
3Prairie Warbler ✓
1Northern Cardinal ✓

September 26

1Red Knot ✓
1White Ibis ✓
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Turkey Vulture ✓
2Osprey ✓
2Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1White-eyed Vireo ✓
1Seaside Sparrow ✓
4Baltimore Oriole ✓
1Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1Nashville Warbler ✓
1Bay-breasted Warbler ✓
1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
1Yellow-throated Warbler ✓
1Black-throated Green Warbler ✓

September 25

1Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
3Tricolored Heron ✓
10Snowy Egret ✓
1American Kestrel ✓

September 24

1Red-necked Phalarope ✓
1Solitary Sandpiper ✓
1White-rumped Sandpiper ✓
2American Pipit ✓
1Northern Yellow Warbler ✓
1Chestnut-sided Warbler ✓
1Blackpoll Warbler ✓

September 23

1Northern Gannet ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓

September 22

1Parasitic Jaeger ✓
6Wilson's Storm-Petrel ✓
1Cory's Shearwater ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak ✓