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Recent reports from Ocracoke Island

Only the most recent report per species is shown. Some reports may be pending verification.

May 22

2Chimney Swift
1Spotted Sandpiper
2Willet
1Ruddy Turnstone
3American Herring Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Black Skimmer
2Least Tern
1White Ibis
1Glossy Ibis
3Great Egret
3Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
5Purple Martin
3Barn Swallow
1Northern Mockingbird
1Seaside Sparrow
6Red-winged Blackbird
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Common Nighthawk

May 21

2Eurasian Collared-Dove
2Laughing Gull
2Great Crested Flycatcher
1Gray Catbird
1American Robin
3House Sparrow
1Northern Cardinal
2American Oystercatcher
2European Starling
1Black-bellied Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Carolina Wren
2Common Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat

May 20

1Black Tern
2Royal Tern
1Eastern Kingbird
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Blue Jay
1Eastern Towhee

May 19

8Sanderling
1Red Knot
XSemipalmated Sandpiper
1Mallard
1Turkey Vulture

May 18

5Mourning Dove
1Great Black-backed Gull
1House Finch

May 17

1Killdeer
2Semipalmated Plover
1Forster's Tern

May 16

4American Black Duck
2Virginia Rail
1Black-necked Stilt
1Dunlin
6Least Sandpiper
1Ring-billed Gull
2Gull-billed Tern
1Sandwich Tern
2Tricolored Heron
2Green Heron
1Brown Thrasher
1Bobolink
3Eastern Meadowlark
3Brown-headed Cowbird
2Prairie Warbler