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Recent reports from Waties Island

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

July 28

4Clapper Rail
1Spotted Sandpiper
5Laughing Gull
5Royal Tern
2Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Little Blue Heron
2Tricolored Heron
5Snowy Egret
3Green Heron
8Great Egret
5Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
2Blue Jay
3Carolina Chickadee
3Tufted Titmouse
2Purple Martin
2Carolina Wren
1House Finch
1Black-and-white Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
1Painted Bunting

July 27

4Mourning Dove
3Ruby-throated Hummingbird
2American Oystercatcher
10Black-bellied Plover
140Semipalmated Plover
6Piping Plover
8Wilson's Plover
294Short-billed Dowitcher
12Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
3Ruddy Turnstone
1Red Knot
44Sanderling
14Least Sandpiper
4Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Ring-billed Gull
2American Herring Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Black Skimmer
6Least Tern
1Gull-billed Tern
4Caspian Tern
2Forster's Tern
7Common Tern
7Sandwich Tern
1Double-crested Cormorant
1Glossy Ibis
1Great Blue Heron
8Brown Pelican
1Bald Eagle
1Belted Kingfisher
1Red-headed Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
4Great Crested Flycatcher
1Tropical Kingbird
1American Crow
54Barn Swallow
1Northern Mockingbird
2Eastern Bluebird
5Seaside Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
1Common Grackle
14Boat-tailed Grackle
1Prairie Warbler
1Summer Tanager