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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.

September 16

7American Oystercatcher
6Black-bellied Plover
27Willet
5Sanderling
5Laughing Gull
6Great Black-backed Gull
56Lesser Black-backed Gull
4Caspian Tern
10Sandwich Tern
800Royal Tern
2Double-crested Cormorant
10Brown Pelican
2Osprey
4American Black Duck
2Mourning Dove
1Killdeer
10Semipalmated Plover
1Piping Plover
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Solitary Sandpiper
6Greater Yellowlegs
14Ruddy Turnstone
1White-rumped Sandpiper
6Least Sandpiper
35Semipalmated Sandpiper
20American Herring Gull
10Forster's Tern
50Common Tern
4Snowy Egret
1Great Blue Heron
5Turkey Vulture
1Cooper's Hawk
3Northern Harrier
2American Kestrel
2Merlin
8American Crow
2Eastern Meadowlark

September 15

18Canada Goose
1Mallard
1American Golden-Plover
1Red-necked Phalarope
2Lesser Yellowlegs
2Red Knot
1Pectoral Sandpiper
1Ring-billed Gull
1Black Tern
5Purple Martin

September 14

2Short-billed Dowitcher
2Least Tern
1Tricolored Heron
10Common Grackle

September 13

1Wilson's Plover
1Northern Mockingbird
1Chuck-will's-widow
1Western Sandpiper
2Fish Crow
5Barn Swallow
1Common Nighthawk
1Sora
1Red-winged Blackbird

September 12

1Boat-tailed Grackle

September 11

1Chimney Swift
2Bald Eagle
2Eastern Kingbird
1Cliff Swallow
3Bobolink