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The Chat Volume 44 Number 3 (Summer 1980)

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Front Matter

Cover of The Chat Volume 44 Number 3 (Summer 1980)Cover: Fred Weisbecker photographed a White Pelican that lingered at Statesville, N.C., for about a month in the fall of 1979. (See Briefs for the Files for details on this and other White Pelican sightings in the Carolinas.) Mr. Weisbecker is a Wildlife Protection Officer.


Table of Contents

Reports

Supplement to the 1978 Checklist of North Carolina Birds David S. Lee, Committee Chairman pp 59–61

CBC Roundtable

...with Louis C. Fink pp 62–63

Backyard Birding

...with Gail T. Whitehurst pp 64–66

Articles

Use of Bluebird Nest Boxes in Coastal South Carolina Willie H. Tomlinson, Jr. and Frederick L. Haines III pp 70–75

General Field Notes

Swainson's Hawk in North Carolina Geraldine Cox and Elizabeth Ball p 76

A Probable Winter Record of Swainson's Hawk from Tyrrell County, N.C., with Comments on a Fall 1965 Sighting from the Outer Banks Eloise F. Potter and Paul W. Sykes Jr pp 76–78

Lesser Black-backed and Glaucous Gulls at Huntington Beach State Park, S.C. Harry E. LeGrand Jr. pp 78–79

Lesser Black-backed Gulls in the Carolinas Bob Lewis pp 79–81

Immature Lesser Black-backed Gull in Carteret County, N.C. Harry E. LeGrand Jr. and Michael Tove pp 82–83

Alder Flycatcher Colony in Watauga County, N.C. Tom Haggerty p 83

Briefs for the Files

Fall 1979–Winter 1980 Harry E. LeGrand, Jr. pp 83–87,66–69

Back Matter

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