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Recent reports from Cape Hatteras NS--Cape Point

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

April 10

24Canada Goose
1Northern Shoveler
45Gadwall
5American Black Duck
13Green-winged Teal
2Bufflehead
2Mourning Dove
1Black-necked Stilt
2American Oystercatcher
12Black-bellied Plover
4Killdeer
2Piping Plover
3Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Ruddy Turnstone
35Sanderling
4Dunlin
2Least Sandpiper
1Parasitic Jaeger
45Bonaparte's Gull
105Laughing Gull
25Ring-billed Gull
175American Herring Gull
12Great Black-backed Gull
115Lesser Black-backed Gull
105Forster's Tern
5Common Tern
85Sandwich Tern
200Royal Tern
5Red-throated Loon
121Common Loon
1Sooty Shearwater
384Northern Gannet
12Double-crested Cormorant
15White Ibis
12Glossy Ibis
2Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
90Brown Pelican
26Turkey Vulture
7Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
1Northern Harrier
1Red-shouldered Hawk
3American Crow
1Tree Swallow
4Purple Martin
5Barn Swallow
1Savannah Sparrow
4Eastern Meadowlark
4Red-winged Blackbird
12Common Grackle
15Boat-tailed Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat

April 9

1Mallard
3Black Scoter
1Common Murre
1Pacific Loon

April 8

1Red-breasted Merganser
2Bald Eagle

April 7

3Blue-winged Teal
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Wilson's Snipe
4Razorbill
2Least Tern
1Horned Grebe
3Manx Shearwater
1European Starling