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Recent reports from Fort Fisher--Federal Point/The Rocks

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

November 6

1Royal Tern ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
2Northern Mockingbird ✓
1American Herring Gull ✓
2Great Black-backed Gull ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
1Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
2Clapper Rail ✓
5American Oystercatcher ✓
7Semipalmated Plover ✓
4Ruddy Turnstone ✓
XLaughing Gull ✓
XRing-billed Gull ✓
XDouble-crested Cormorant ✓
5White Ibis ✓
XBrown Pelican ✓
XTurkey Vulture ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
1Blue Jay ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
2Seaside Sparrow ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓
2Swamp Sparrow ✓
1Boat-tailed Grackle ✓

November 5

1Belted Kingfisher ✓
2American Crow ✓
2Fish Crow ✓
1Carolina Chickadee ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
3Savannah Sparrow ✓
2Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
1Northern Cardinal ✓

November 4

6Marbled Godwit ✓
2Forster's Tern ✓
1Sandwich Tern ✓
1Sedge Wren ✓
1Saltmarsh Sparrow ✓
1Mourning Dove ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
1Sanderling ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
1Great Blue Heron ✓
2House Finch ✓

November 1

11Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
35Prairie Willet ✓
9Snowy Egret ✓
1Great Egret ✓

October 31

1American Black Duck ✓
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo ✓
2Black-bellied Plover ✓
4Dunlin ✓
2Least Sandpiper ✓
2Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
50Black Skimmer ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
3Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
11Northern Flicker ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
6Tufted Titmouse ✓
4Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
10Gray Catbird ✓
2Eastern Bluebird ✓
1Hermit Thrush ✓
1American Robin ✓
2Pine Siskin ✓
13American Goldfinch ✓
2Chipping Sparrow ✓
11White-throated Sparrow ✓
2Eastern Towhee ✓
2Black-and-white Warbler ✓
3Northern Parula ✓
3Pine Warbler ✓
4Prairie Warbler ✓
1Painted Bunting ✓