• great egret
• great blue heron
• black crowned night heron
• white ibis
• anhinga
• mute swan
• common gallinule
• red-bellied woodpecker
• pileated woodpecker
• little blue heron
• yellow bellied sapsucker
• common crow
• common grackle
• downy woodpecker
• hairy woodpecker
• nothern flicker
• white breasted nuthatch
• brown creeper
• yellow rumped warbler
• American goldfinch
• American robin
• rufous sided (eastern) towhee
• northern cardinal
• house finch
• purple finch
• scarlet tanager
• gray catbird
• northern mockingbird
• carolina chickadee
• dark eyed junco
• tufted titmouse
• European starling
• belted kingfisher
• blue jay
• indigo bunting
• eastern bluebird
• ruby crowned kinglet
• ruby throated hummingbird
• Carolina wren
• brown thrasher
• brown headed cowbird
• house sparrow
• chipping sparrow
• white throated sparrow
• white crowned sparrow
• song sparrow
• red winged blackbird
• piping plover
• muscovy
• cattle egret
• double crested cormorant
• mallard
• Canada gooose
• wood duck
• snow goose
• brown pelican
• sanderling
• killdeer
• wild turkey
• barred owl
• red tailed hawk
• broad winged hawk
• red shouldered hawk
• bald eagle
• turkey vulture
• black vulture
• rock dove (pigeon)
• mourning dove
• tree swallow
• purple martin
• common raven
• red headed woodpecker
• merlin
• osprey
• laughing gull
• herring gull
• short billed dowitcher
• boat tailed grackle
• ruddy turnstone
• caspian tern
• common tern (2015) [OI and Salem Lake]
• ring billed gull
• sandwich tern
• blue winged teal (4/2016) [Salem Lake]
• common loon
• willet
• American oystercatcher
• cooper's hawk
• fish crow
• snowy egret
• barn swallow
• sandhill crane
• royal tern
• black skimmer
• bufflehead
• American coot
• black bellied plover
• sharp shinned hawk
• chimney swift
• green heron
• Greater Antillean grackle
• Bahama mockingbird
• Scott's oriole
• brown headed nuthatch
• tricolored heron
• white crowned pigeon
• white winged dove
• cedar waxwing
• solitary sandpiper (2015) Oak Hollow
• rusty blackbird (2015) OI
• marbled godwit (2015) OI
• eastern kingbird (2015) Calabash
• Forster's tern (2015) OI
• least tern (2015) OI
• gull billed tern (2015) OI
• eastern phoebe (2015) [Oak Hollow]
• ring-necked duck (2015) [Salem Lake]
• black and white warbler (2015)[Kerr Lake]
• eastern wood peewee (2015) [Kerr Lake]
• red throated loon (2015) [Kerr Lake dam]
• Pine warbler (2015) [Kerr Lake]
• Pied billed grebe (2015) [Salem Lake]
• Buff bellied hummingbird (2015)
• Green winged teal (2015) [Archie Elledge, WS]
• Northern Shoveler (2015) [Archie Elledge, WS]
• Ruddy duck (2015) [Salem Lake]
• Horned grebe (2015) [Salem Lake]
• hooded merganser (2015)
• greater white fronted goose (2015)
• Ross's goose (2015)
• American kestrel (2016)
• red-breasted merganser (2016) [Salem Lake]
• trumpeter swan (2016) [Sunnydell Lake, WS
• Cliff swallow (2016) [OH Lake]
• Brown booby (2016)
• Mississippi kite (2016) [Irma's in McDowell, Wilkes Co]
• Peregrine falcon (2016) [Irma's]
• Swallow-tailed kite (2016) [Wilkes Co]
• Common nighthawk (2016) [Gianno's]
• Northern rough winged swallow (Apr 2016) [Salem Lk]
• White pelican (2016) [Blackwater NWR]
• Northern harrier (2016) [Blackwater NWR]
• Whimbrel (2016)
  
• Bonaparte's gull (Dec 2016) [Lake Townsend]
• Iceland gull (Dec 2016) [Lake Townsend]
• Lesser Scaup (Jan 2017) [Penny Rd pond]
• Northern pintail (Feb 2017)
  
• Eastern meadowlark (Feb 2017)
  
• Tundra swan (Feb 2017)
  
• American widgeon (Feb 2017) [Bodie Island pond]
• Gadwall (Feb 2017) [Bodie Island pond]
• Northern gannet (Feb 2017) [Jeanette's pier, Nags Head]
• Common eider (Feb 2017) [Jeanette's pier, Nags Head]
• Razorbill (Feb 2017) [Jeanette's pier, Nags Head]
• Dovekie (Feb 2017) [Jeanette's pier, Nags Head]
• Thick billed murre (Feb 2017) [Jeanette's pier, Nags Head]
• American black duck (Feb 2017) [Bodie Island pond]
• greater scaup (March 2017) [Penny Rd pond]
• redhead, female (March 2017) [Penny Rd pond]
• Orchard oriole (May 2017)
  

23 new species in 201515 new species in 2016

Heard but not seen:

• Great horned owl
• Bob White quail