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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.

August 9

20Canada Goose
65Mourning Dove
3Common Nighthawk
4American Oystercatcher
4Black-bellied Plover
8Killdeer
10Semipalmated Plover
1Wilson's Phalarope
45Spotted Sandpiper
1Lesser Yellowlegs
1Willet
5Greater Yellowlegs
25Ruddy Turnstone
5Stilt Sandpiper
40Sanderling
35Least Sandpiper
14Pectoral Sandpiper
40Semipalmated Sandpiper
105Laughing Gull
5American Herring Gull
8Great Black-backed Gull
1Black Skimmer
15Least Tern
35Black Tern
1Forster's Tern
50Common Tern
13Roseate Tern
5Sandwich Tern
135Royal Tern
8Double-crested Cormorant
4Snowy Egret
1Great Egret
2Brown Pelican
4Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
8Barn Swallow
1Northern Mockingbird
12Red-winged Blackbird
8Common Grackle

August 6

2Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Green Heron
1Carolina Wren
5Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1Caspian Tern
1Sargasso Shearwater
1Tricolored Heron
1Eastern Kingbird
2Purple Martin

August 5

1White-rumped Sandpiper
1Belted Kingfisher
3Cliff Swallow
2European Starling
2Eastern Meadowlark
1Northern Cardinal
1Blue Grosbeak

August 4

1King Rail
1Upland Sandpiper