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The Carolina Bird Club, Inc., is a non-profit educational and scientific association open to anyone interested in the study and conservation of wildlife, particularly birds.

The Club meets each winter, spring, and fall at different locations in the Carolinas. Meeting sites are selected to give participants an opportunity to see many different kinds of birds. Guided field trips and informative programs are combined for an exciting weekend of meeting with people who share an enthusiasm and concern for birds.

The Club offers research grants in avian biology for undergraduate and graduate students, and scholarships for young birders.

The Club publishes two print publications (now also available online). The Chat is a quarterly ornithological journal that contains scientific articles, reports of bird records committees and bird counts, and general field notes on bird sightings. CBC Newsletter is published bimonthly and includes birding articles and information about meetings, field trips, and Club news.

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To report a rare bird sighting in North or South Carolina, call Taylor Piephoff at 704-332-2473 and leave a message.

You can also e-mail Taylor at PiephoffT@aol.com.
April 23, 2004 RBA
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Hello, this is an April 23 update of the Carolina Rare Bird Alert featuring birding news from North and South Carolina sponsored by the Carolina Bird Club. Highlights on this reort include:

SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER
SWALLOW-TAILED KITE
BROWN BOOBY
BAIRD'S SANDPIPER
BROWN PELICANS (inland NC)
WHITE-WINGED DOVE

A SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER was seen south of Monroe , NC in an area where this species bred in 2000, 2001, and 2002. Contact Blayne and Anne Olsen at <bolsen187@earthlink.net> for details on the continuing presence of this bird.

A SWALLOW-TAILED KITE was seen near Sea Level, NC on 4-15. This kite seems to be seen in eastern NC more often in the past few years, usually in the spring.

A juvenile BROWN BOOBY was photographed near Cape Lookout (NC) as it perched on Channel Marker 20 next to Morgan Island.

Hooper Lane near Hendersonville, NC is a good location for shorebirds in the mountains. On 4-15 a BAIRD'S SANDPIPER was present for a very rare spring record in NC. For information on birding Hooper Lane, contact Wayne Forsythe at 828-697-6628 or at wforsythe@mchsi.com.

A WHITE-WINGED DOVE visited a feeder in Shelby, NC for 1 day around 4-15 but has not been seen since that time .

A BROWN PELICAN has been seen at the Lake Townsend Marina north of Greensboro, NC. More frustrating has been a BROWN PELICAN around the Crowder's Creek area of Lake Wylie SW of Charlotte, NC. This bird has eluded area birders but continues to be reported by lake residents.

Thanks this week to John Fussell and Robert Jackson for their calls and reports. Some of this information was gleaned from Carolinabirds.
 
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