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Recent reports from Cape Hatteras NS--Salvo Day Use Area

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

September 27

4Wood Duck ✓
2Northern Pintail ✓
5Rock Pigeon ✓
6Mourning Dove ✓
2Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1Clapper Rail ✓
2Black-bellied Plover ✓
2Semipalmated Plover ✓
3Least Sandpiper ✓
55Laughing Gull ✓
2Ring-billed Gull ✓
20American Herring Gull ✓
2Great Black-backed Gull ✓
12Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
1Black Skimmer ✓
8Caspian Tern ✓
25Forster's Tern ✓
1Sandwich Tern ✓
50Royal Tern ✓
250Double-crested Cormorant ✓
13White Ibis ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
2Great Egret ✓
40Brown Pelican ✓
5Turkey Vulture ✓
2Osprey ✓
3Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
2Belted Kingfisher ✓
183Northern Flicker
2American Kestrel ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
1White-eyed Vireo ✓
1Philadelphia Vireo ✓
1Eastern Warbling Vireo ✓
29Red-eyed Vireo
1Carolina Chickadee
4Northern House Wren ✓
6Carolina Wren ✓
1European Starling ✓
31Gray Catbird ✓
3Brown Thrasher ✓
4Northern Mockingbird ✓
15American Robin ✓
10Cedar Waxwing ✓
2American Pipit
4House Finch ✓
5Eastern Towhee ✓
8Bobolink ✓
12Baltimore Oriole ✓
6Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1Ovenbird ✓
2Northern Waterthrush ✓
8Black-and-white Warbler ✓
2Tennessee Warbler ✓
3Nashville Warbler
8Common Yellowthroat ✓
108American Redstart
23Cape May Warbler ✓
1Cerulean Warbler
33Northern Parula ✓
5Magnolia Warbler ✓
1Bay-breasted Warbler ✓
4Northern Yellow Warbler ✓
1Chestnut-sided Warbler ✓
1Blackpoll Warbler ✓
141Palm Warbler
6Pine Warbler ✓
7Prairie Warbler ✓
1Black-throated Green Warbler ✓
12Northern Cardinal ✓
3Rose-breasted Grosbeak ✓
3Blue Grosbeak ✓
3Indigo Bunting ✓

September 26

4Canada Goose ✓
1American Wigeon ✓
2Hudsonian Whimbrel ✓
6Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
5Semipalmated Sandpiper ✓
1Great Cormorant
3Great Blue Heron ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Great Crested Flycatcher ✓
4Eastern Kingbird ✓
1Tree Swallow ✓
2Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Veery ✓
1Swainson's Thrush ✓
1White-throated Sparrow
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
1Brown-headed Cowbird ✓
11Black-throated Blue Warbler
4Dickcissel