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Recent reports from East Shackleford Banks

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

October 21

1Clapper Rail
24American Oystercatcher
36Black-bellied Plover
2Killdeer
16Semipalmated Plover
2Whimbrel
1Long-billed Curlew
7Marbled Godwit
80Short-billed Dowitcher
12Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
5Ruddy Turnstone
40Red Knot
8Sanderling
110Dunlin
6Least Sandpiper
35Western Sandpiper
40Laughing Gull
8Ring-billed Gull
7American Herring Gull
1Great Black-backed Gull
2Black Skimmer
32Caspian Tern
50Forster's Tern
18Sandwich Tern
12Royal Tern
1Great Cormorant
5Double-crested Cormorant
1Tricolored Heron
1Reddish Egret
1Snowy Egret
2Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
12Brown Pelican
2Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
2Eastern Phoebe
1Northern House Wren
1Gray Catbird
3Northern Mockingbird
2House Finch
7Savannah Sparrow
2Common Yellowthroat
7Palm Warbler
25Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Northern Cardinal
1White Ibis
2Song Sparrow
1Indigo Bunting

October 20

1Piping Plover
1Lesser Yellowlegs
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Common Tern

October 18

2Spotted Sandpiper
2Northern Harrier
1Peregrine Falcon
1Carolina Wren
1Saltmarsh Sparrow
6Eastern Meadowlark
5Boat-tailed Grackle
1Mourning Dove
1Long-billed Dowitcher
2Bald Eagle
1Northern Flicker
1Merlin
1Marsh Wren
3Red-winged Blackbird