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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.

October 8

8Canada Goose ✓
2American Black Duck ✓
2Mourning Dove ✓
20Black-bellied Plover ✓
10Semipalmated Plover ✓
1Piping Plover ✓
15Willet ✓
4Ruddy Turnstone ✓
55Sanderling ✓
1Dunlin ✓
1Least Sandpiper ✓
2Western Sandpiper ✓
275Laughing Gull ✓
10Ring-billed Gull ✓
35American Herring Gull ✓
12Great Black-backed Gull ✓
150Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
30Caspian Tern ✓
450Forster's Tern ✓
35Common Tern ✓
300Sandwich Tern ✓
105Royal Tern ✓
25Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Snowy Egret ✓
3Great Egret ✓
5Great Blue Heron ✓
12Brown Pelican ✓
4Turkey Vulture ✓
2Northern Harrier ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
20Red-winged Blackbird ✓
2Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
5Black Skimmer ✓

October 6

2Blue-winged Teal ✓
2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
1Semipalmated Sandpiper ✓
1American Herring x Lesser Black-backed Gull (hybrid) ✓
1Osprey ✓
4American Kestrel ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓