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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 3

3Canada Goose
75Mourning Dove
2American Oystercatcher
5Black-bellied Plover
18Killdeer
30Semipalmated Plover
1Short-billed Dowitcher
1Long-billed Dowitcher
1Wilson's Phalarope
45Spotted Sandpiper
15Lesser Yellowlegs
1Willet
12Greater Yellowlegs
77Ruddy Turnstone
1Red Knot
56Stilt Sandpiper
75Sanderling
1White-rumped Sandpiper
300Least Sandpiper
40Pectoral Sandpiper
4Western Sandpiper
200Semipalmated Sandpiper
30Laughing Gull
8American Herring Gull
10Great Black-backed Gull
3Lesser Black-backed Gull
4Black Skimmer
40Least Tern
1Gull-billed Tern
25Black Tern
15Common Tern
4Sandwich Tern
80Royal Tern
15Double-crested Cormorant
1Little Blue Heron
1Snowy Egret
5Brown Pelican
1Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
4Purple Martin
9Barn Swallow
3Carolina Wren
1Eastern Towhee
15Red-winged Blackbird
10Brown-headed Cowbird
1Common Yellowthroat
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Ring-billed Gull
1Roseate Tern
2House Finch
1Blue Grosbeak

August 1

4Common Nighthawk
1Tricolored Heron
3Green Heron
1Great Egret
1Eastern Meadowlark
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Northern Mockingbird
2Prairie Warbler

July 31

1King Rail
1Dunlin

July 30

2Piping Plover
1White Ibis
2American Black Duck
3Forster's Tern
1Solitary Sandpiper

July 28

1Great Blue Heron