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Recent reports from Hatteras Point

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

April 18

1Canada Goose
4American Oystercatcher
8Black-bellied Plover
1Lesser Yellowlegs
2Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
25Sanderling
8Dunlin
35Laughing Gull
2Ring-billed Gull
50American Herring Gull
5Great Black-backed Gull
8Least Tern
15Forster's Tern
5Common Tern
35Sandwich Tern
70Royal Tern
35Northern Gannet
2Double-crested Cormorant
12White Ibis
3Snowy Egret
7Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
15Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Sharp-shinned Hawk
1White-eyed Vireo
1Red-eyed Vireo
1Purple Martin
6Barn Swallow
1Brown Thrasher
1Eastern Bluebird
1Swamp Sparrow
2Eastern Towhee
2Red-winged Blackbird
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Worm-eating Warbler
2Common Yellowthroat
1Yellow-rumped Warbler
1Prairie Warbler
1Northern Cardinal
1Black Scoter
1Piping Plover
3Red Knot

April 17

4Ruddy Turnstone
1Heermann's Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1American Herring x Lesser Black-backed Gull (hybrid)
3Turkey Vulture
1Fish Crow
1Northern Mockingbird

April 15

5Blue-winged Teal
2Red-breasted Merganser
4Mourning Dove
1Whimbrel
1Bonaparte's Gull
5Black Skimmer
1Caspian Tern
2Common Loon
1Little Blue Heron
3Tricolored Heron
1Green Heron
1Cooper's Hawk
1Merlin
1Black-whiskered Vireo
1Song Sparrow
1Summer Tanager

April 14

1Chimney Swift
9Parasitic Jaeger
2Manx Shearwater
1Northern Parula

April 12

1Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Carolina Wren