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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 31

4Canada Goose
150Mourning Dove
1King Rail
4American Oystercatcher
12Black-bellied Plover
12Killdeer
16Semipalmated Plover
1Piping Plover
4Hudsonian Whimbrel
2Short-billed Dowitcher
35Spotted Sandpiper
8Lesser Yellowlegs
20Willet
4Greater Yellowlegs
40Ruddy Turnstone
5Buff-breasted Sandpiper
50Sanderling
75Least Sandpiper
35Pectoral Sandpiper
4Western Sandpiper
90Semipalmated Sandpiper
80Laughing Gull
3Ring-billed Gull
12American Herring Gull
20Great Black-backed Gull
6Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Black Skimmer
25Least Tern
4Caspian Tern
30Black Tern
2Forster's Tern
15Common Tern
1Roseate Tern
2Sandwich Tern
50Royal Tern
30Double-crested Cormorant
2Glossy Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
1Snowy Egret
1Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
6Brown Pelican
55Turkey Vulture
2Osprey
1Bald Eagle
1Belted Kingfisher
1Peregrine Falcon
3American Crow
2Fish Crow
5Bank Swallow
25Barn Swallow
1Carolina Wren
5European Starling
1Eastern Towhee
2Bobolink
1Eastern Meadowlark
25Red-winged Blackbird
1Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Grackle
2Common Yellowthroat
1Blue Grosbeak
1Dickcissel

August 29

1Stilt Sandpiper
1Green Heron
14Eastern Kingbird
1Tree Swallow
1Northern Mockingbird
1Red-necked Phalarope

August 28

7Blue-winged Teal
19White-rumped Sandpiper
1Cooper's Hawk