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Recent reports from Hunting Island SP--North Spit

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

August 23

1Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
3American Oystercatcher
2Black-bellied Plover
15Semipalmated Plover
2Wilson's Plover
3Marbled Godwit
4Short-billed Dowitcher
4Willet
5Ruddy Turnstone
30Sanderling
10Least Sandpiper
1Western Sandpiper
45Laughing Gull
2Ring-billed Gull
50Black Skimmer
11Least Tern
6Black Tern
15Common Tern
20Sandwich Tern
150Royal Tern
15Brown Pelican
2Osprey
1Carolina Chickadee
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
4Northern Cardinal

August 22

2Piping Plover
12Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Great Black-backed Gull
2Lesser Black-backed Gull