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Recent reports from Fort Macon SP

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

November 4

2Sanderling ✓
8Double-crested Cormorant ✓
15White Ibis ✓
10Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Blue Jay ✓
2Carolina Chickadee ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
2Gray Catbird ✓
8Northern Mockingbird ✓
2Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
15Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
8Northern Cardinal ✓
3Mourning Dove ✓
2Royal Tern ✓
1Hermit Thrush ✓
3House Sparrow ✓
4House Finch ✓
1Field Sparrow ✓
1White-throated Sparrow ✓
2Song Sparrow ✓
1Painted Bunting ✓
7Ruddy Turnstone ✓
200Laughing Gull ✓
1Ring-billed Gull ✓
7American Herring Gull ✓
6Great Black-backed Gull ✓
2Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
15Forster's Tern ✓
1Common Loon ✓
4Great Cormorant ✓
20Brown Pelican ✓
3Savannah Sparrow ✓
1Eastern Meadowlark ✓

November 3

19Black Scoter ✓
2Killdeer ✓
3Prairie Willet ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
1Common Eider
3Clapper Rail ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Merlin ✓
3Northern House Wren ✓
30European Starling ✓
2Brown Thrasher ✓
1American Pipit ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
1Common Grackle ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓

November 2

5Tricolored Heron ✓
1Great Egret ✓
1Great Blue Heron ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
2Northern Gannet ✓
1Osprey ✓

October 31

1Semipalmated Sandpiper ✓
3Sandwich Tern ✓
1Pied-billed Grebe ✓

October 30

2Cedar Waxwing ✓

October 29

1Fish Crow ✓
1Swamp Sparrow ✓
8Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Dunlin ✓
1Caspian Tern ✓