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Recent reports from Cape Hatteras NS--Salt Pond

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

October 23

1Green-winged Teal ✓
3Black-bellied Plover ✓
1Killdeer ✓
4Semipalmated Plover ✓
1Piping Plover ✓
1Marbled Godwit ✓
1Greater Yellowlegs ✓
3Ruddy Turnstone ✓
4Red Knot ✓
35Sanderling ✓
4Dunlin ✓
1White-rumped Sandpiper ✓
2Laughing Gull ✓
8American Herring Gull ✓
30Great Black-backed Gull ✓
25Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
10Northern Gannet ✓
4Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Great Egret ✓
1Great Blue Heron ✓
6Brown Pelican ✓
10Turkey Vulture ✓
1Sharp-shinned Hawk ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
4American Kestrel ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
5American Crow ✓
8Tree Swallow ✓
1Cave Swallow ✓
2Carolina Wren ✓
4Northern Mockingbird ✓
1American Pipit ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
1Eastern Meadowlark ✓
1Red-winged Blackbird ✓
12Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
8Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
2Canada Goose ✓
16Blue-winged Teal ✓
38American Black Duck ✓
4Mourning Dove ✓
1Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
5Least Sandpiper ✓
1Semipalmated Sandpiper ✓
1Bonaparte's Gull ✓
7Ring-billed Gull ✓
4Caspian Tern ✓
18Forster's Tern ✓
3Royal Tern ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Merlin ✓
4Barn Swallow ✓
2Savannah Sparrow ✓

October 21

2Gadwall ✓
1American Golden-Plover ✓
1Baird's Sandpiper ✓
1Sandwich Tern ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
1Snowy Egret ✓
1Cliff Swallow ✓