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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.

May 1

12Canada Goose
2Blue-winged Teal
6Gadwall
3Mallard
18American Black Duck
2Redhead
5Mourning Dove
4American Oystercatcher
10Black-bellied Plover
4Killdeer
6Semipalmated Plover
1Wilson's Plover
300Short-billed Dowitcher
224Red-necked Phalarope
1Solitary Sandpiper
18Lesser Yellowlegs
5Willet
5Greater Yellowlegs
1Ruddy Turnstone
55Sanderling
25Dunlin
75Least Sandpiper
12Semipalmated Sandpiper
5Parasitic Jaeger
10Bonaparte's Gull
105Laughing Gull
4Ring-billed Gull
20American Herring Gull
5Great Black-backed Gull
15Lesser Black-backed Gull
235Least Tern
5Forster's Tern
304Common Tern
6Roseate Tern
105Sandwich Tern
215Royal Tern
91Common Loon
1Manx Shearwater
103Northern Gannet
1Great Cormorant
12Double-crested Cormorant
5White Ibis
15Glossy Ibis
1Tricolored Heron
4Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
18Brown Pelican
15Turkey Vulture
6Osprey
2Cooper's Hawk
3American Crow
1Purple Martin
65Barn Swallow
2Cliff Swallow
1Northern Mockingbird
1Savannah Sparrow
10Red-winged Blackbird
8Common Grackle
5Boat-tailed Grackle
2Common Yellowthroat

April 30

2Black Skimmer
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Eastern Meadowlark

April 29

1Great Crested Flycatcher
5European Starling
1Brown Thrasher
1Northern Cardinal
1Common Nighthawk
1King Rail
3Stilt Sandpiper
1Pectoral Sandpiper
1Black Tern
1Wilson's Storm-Petrel
1Snowy Egret
1Eastern Kingbird
6Fish Crow
1Carolina Wren
1Eastern Towhee

April 28

1Green-winged Teal
1Gull-billed Tern
1Bald Eagle

April 27

2Black Scoter
1Ruddy Duck
1Arctic Tern
1Belted Kingfisher

April 26

1Razorbill
2Sooty Shearwater