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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.

November 8

2Black-bellied Plover ✓
XGreat Black-backed Gull ✓
6Royal Tern ✓

November 7

10Canada Goose ✓
4Gadwall ✓
8Mallard ✓
65American Black Duck ✓
2Northern Pintail ✓
8Ring-necked Duck ✓
1Surf Scoter ✓
5Mourning Dove ✓
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo ✓
1Common Nighthawk ✓
3Virginia Rail ✓
1American Coot ✓
4Killdeer ✓
1Semipalmated Plover ✓
1Wilson's Snipe ✓
10Prairie Willet ✓
4Ruddy Turnstone ✓
55Sanderling ✓
20Dunlin ✓
3Parasitic Jaeger ✓
95Laughing Gull ✓
10Ring-billed Gull ✓
200American Herring Gull ✓
800Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
35Forster's Tern ✓
150Northern Gannet ✓
5Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Green Heron ✓
2Great Blue Heron ✓
105Brown Pelican ✓
4Turkey Vulture ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1American Kestrel ✓
4Tree Swallow ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
8Gray Catbird ✓
2Northern Mockingbird ✓
25American Robin ✓
2Savannah Sparrow ✓
2Song Sparrow ✓
4Swamp Sparrow ✓
1Bobolink ✓
10Red-winged Blackbird ✓
25Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
1Northern Parula ✓
8Blackpoll Warbler ✓
1Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
55Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
3Northern Cardinal ✓
2Green-winged Teal ✓
1Greater Yellowlegs ✓
1Franklin's Gull ✓
1Great Egret ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
3Barn Swallow ✓

November 6

3American Oystercatcher ✓
1American Golden-Plover ✓
1Long-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
1Common Tern ✓
55Sandwich Tern ✓
1Pied-billed Grebe ✓

November 5

2Blue-winged Teal ✓
1White-winged Scoter ✓
3Black Scoter ✓
1Piping Plover ✓
1Western Sandpiper ✓
1Semipalmated Sandpiper ✓
1American Herring x Lesser Black-backed Gull (hybrid) ✓
4American Crow ✓
1American Pipit ✓
1Eastern Meadowlark ✓

November 4

1Stilt Sandpiper ✓

November 3

2American Wigeon ✓
2American Bittern ✓
1Sharp-shinned Hawk ✓
1Merlin ✓
4Eastern Marsh Wren ✓
2Eastern Towhee ✓
200Common Grackle ✓