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Recent reports from Hunting Island SP--Campground Road/Campground

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

July 21

1Common Ground Dove
1Clapper Rail
20Semipalmated Plover
3Piping Plover
4Marbled Godwit
7Willet
3Ruddy Turnstone
40Laughing Gull
7Black Skimmer
15Least Tern
7Black Tern
4Royal Tern
1Wood Stork
1Tricolored Heron
2Snowy Egret
1Great Blue Heron
40Brown Pelican
1Black Vulture
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Fish Crow
1Marsh Wren
2Carolina Wren
3Northern Mockingbird
4Eastern Bluebird
2House Finch
2Northern Cardinal
4Mourning Dove
1Eastern Kingbird
1Brown Thrasher
2Chimney Swift
1Cooper's Hawk
1Downy Woodpecker
2Great Crested Flycatcher
2Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Painted Bunting

July 20

1American Oystercatcher
1Osprey

July 19

6Sanderling
6Sandwich Tern
1Turkey Vulture
2Brown-headed Nuthatch
3Red-winged Blackbird
2Brown-headed Cowbird

July 17

1Killdeer
4Wilson's Plover
1Great Egret