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Recent reports from Kiawah Island--East Beach

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

April 23

6Black-bellied Plover
5Semipalmated Plover
5Wilson's Plover
1Lesser Yellowlegs
4Willet
1Western Sandpiper
1Anhinga
1Double-crested Cormorant
1Little Blue Heron
1Snowy Egret
1Green Heron
1Great Egret
1Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Mississippi Kite
1Cooper's Hawk
1Downy Woodpecker
5Great Crested Flycatcher
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
1Barn Swallow
1Worm-eating Warbler
4Northern Parula
1Yellow-throated Warbler
1Painted Bunting

April 22

XBlack Scoter
1Common Gallinule
2Black-necked Stilt
1Spotted Sandpiper
2Ruddy Turnstone
XRed Knot
XSanderling
2Tricolored Heron
2Great Blue Heron
2White-eyed Vireo
1American Crow
1Fish Crow
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1House Finch
1Savannah Sparrow
1Palm Warbler
1Yellow-rumped Warbler

April 21

1American Oystercatcher
1Killdeer
1Piping Plover
1Whimbrel
3Dunlin
XLaughing Gull
XRing-billed Gull
XBlack Skimmer
XLeast Tern
4Gull-billed Tern
4Forster's Tern
XRoyal Tern
XBrown Pelican

April 19

7Blue-winged Teal
XLesser Scaup
1Pied-billed Grebe
2Clapper Rail
XShort-billed Dowitcher
XLeast Sandpiper
XSemipalmated Sandpiper
XCaspian Tern
XCommon Tern
XSandwich Tern
1Least Bittern
1House Wren
6Sedge Wren
3Marsh Wren
1Gray Catbird
2Northern Mockingbird
XRed-winged Blackbird
XBoat-tailed Grackle
2Northern Cardinal