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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.

September 13

6Blue-winged Teal
2American Black Duck
4Mourning Dove
1Black-bellied Plover
2Killdeer
2Semipalmated Plover
1Lesser Yellowlegs
1Stilt Sandpiper
4Semipalmated Sandpiper
2Laughing Gull
2Common Tern
1Snowy Egret
14Turkey Vulture
1Eastern Kingbird
2Northern Mockingbird
1American Oystercatcher
3Willet
10Ruddy Turnstone
2Buff-breasted Sandpiper
2Sanderling
10Least Sandpiper
1Pectoral Sandpiper
8American Herring Gull
8Great Black-backed Gull
6Lesser Black-backed Gull
2Least Tern
12Caspian Tern
15Black Tern
1Sandwich Tern
22Royal Tern
1Little Blue Heron
2Great Egret
4Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Belted Kingfisher
1American Crow
24Canada Goose
1Greater Yellowlegs
19Double-crested Cormorant
1Great Blue Heron

September 12

8Short-billed Dowitcher
1Solitary Sandpiper
10Forster's Tern
1Green Heron
1Merlin
3Eastern Meadowlark
2Northern Cardinal