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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.

June 10

57Canada Goose
20American Black Duck
8Mourning Dove
4American Oystercatcher
5Black-bellied Plover
6Killdeer
2Semipalmated Plover
4Piping Plover
17Short-billed Dowitcher
4Red-necked Phalarope
10Willet
12Ruddy Turnstone
3Sanderling
15Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Parasitic Jaeger
1South Polar Skua
65Laughing Gull
2Ring-billed Gull
7American Herring Gull
14Great Black-backed Gull
3Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Bridled Tern
105Least Tern
5Common Tern
1Roseate Tern
35Sandwich Tern
50Royal Tern
1Common Loon
534Wilson's Storm-Petrel
52Cory's Shearwater
2Scopoli's Shearwater
91Great Shearwater
1Northern Gannet
6Double-crested Cormorant
2White Ibis
1Snowy Egret
1Green Heron
2Great Egret
4Brown Pelican
10Turkey Vulture
4Osprey
10Purple Martin
8Barn Swallow
1Carolina Wren
2Northern Mockingbird
1Eastern Towhee
3Eastern Meadowlark
10Red-winged Blackbird
12Common Grackle
8Boat-tailed Grackle
2Common Yellowthroat
1Blue Grosbeak

June 9

2Common Nighthawk
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Black Skimmer

June 7

1White-rumped Sandpiper
1Blue-winged Teal
2Wilson's Plover
1Red Knot
1Black Tern
1Sooty Shearwater
1Manx Shearwater

June 6

1Gull-billed Tern
1Blue Jay
3American Crow

June 5

1Black-necked Stilt
1King Rail