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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.

September 9

12Canada Goose
20Rock Pigeon
15Mourning Dove
2American Oystercatcher
12Black-bellied Plover
1American Golden-Plover
8Killdeer
38Semipalmated Plover
1Piping Plover
1Short-billed Dowitcher
4Spotted Sandpiper
2Lesser Yellowlegs
8Willet
2Greater Yellowlegs
20Ruddy Turnstone
1Buff-breasted Sandpiper
75Sanderling
20Least Sandpiper
1Pectoral Sandpiper
5Western Sandpiper
45Semipalmated Sandpiper
50Laughing Gull
20American Herring Gull
30Great Black-backed Gull
4Lesser Black-backed Gull
7Black Skimmer
8Least Tern
10Caspian Tern
55Black Tern
20Forster's Tern
300Common Tern
15Roseate Tern
15Sandwich Tern
105Royal Tern
18Double-crested Cormorant
4Snowy Egret
1Great Egret
4Great Blue Heron
5Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1American Kestrel
1Merlin
5American Crow
1Northern Mockingbird
1Bobolink
1Eastern Meadowlark
35Red-winged Blackbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1American Redstart
1Blue Grosbeak
1Dickcissel

September 8

1Marbled Godwit
2Turkey Vulture
2Eastern Kingbird

September 7

1American Black Duck
2Common Nighthawk
1Green Heron
1Cooper's Hawk
10Common Grackle

September 5

2Blue-winged Teal
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Dunlin
1Tricolored Heron
1Carolina Wren
1Cedar Waxwing
6Boat-tailed Grackle

September 4

1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Red Knot
10European Starling
1Brown-headed Cowbird
1White Ibis

September 3

1Great Shearwater
6Barn Swallow
1Eastern Towhee
1Northern Cardinal