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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.

August 17

1Canada Goose
75Mourning Dove
1American Oystercatcher
8Black-bellied Plover
15Killdeer
10Semipalmated Plover
1Piping Plover
1Short-billed Dowitcher
40Spotted Sandpiper
5Lesser Yellowlegs
15Willet
3Greater Yellowlegs
45Ruddy Turnstone
50Sanderling
60Least Sandpiper
20Pectoral Sandpiper
25Semipalmated Sandpiper
25Laughing Gull
2Ring-billed Gull
8American Herring Gull
12Great Black-backed Gull
2Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Black Skimmer
40Least Tern
6Black Tern
16Common Tern
3Roseate Tern
15Sandwich Tern
50Royal Tern
15Double-crested Cormorant
1Little Blue Heron
3Snowy Egret
3Green Heron
1Great Blue Heron
6Brown Pelican
10Turkey Vulture
2Osprey
1Belted Kingfisher
1Eastern Kingbird
1Fish Crow
5Purple Martin
10Barn Swallow
2Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
1Eastern Towhee
2Eastern Meadowlark
20Red-winged Blackbird
1Boat-tailed Grackle
9Common Yellowthroat
1Northern Cardinal
1Blue Grosbeak

August 16

8Rock Pigeon

August 15

4King Rail
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Cooper's Hawk

August 14

2Common Nighthawk
1Solitary Sandpiper
2Stilt Sandpiper
1Gull-billed Tern

August 11

3Forster's Tern