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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.

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Recent reports from Pea Island NWR--Salt Flats Wildlife Trail

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

August 19

5Canada Goose
1American Black Duck
2Mourning Dove
10Black-necked Stilt
2American Oystercatcher
8Black-bellied Plover
2Killdeer
8Semipalmated Plover
5Long-billed Dowitcher
1Lesser Yellowlegs
5Willet
2Greater Yellowlegs
20Least Sandpiper
10Laughing Gull
2American Herring Gull
15Black Skimmer
3Caspian Tern
1Black Tern
3Forster's Tern
5Royal Tern
5Double-crested Cormorant
2White Ibis
1Yellow-crowned Night Heron
2Tricolored Heron
2Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
8Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
1Belted Kingfisher
1Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
2Seaside Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Eastern Meadowlark
10Red-winged Blackbird
2Common Yellowthroat

August 18

1Blue-winged Teal
1Gadwall
1Mallard
1Common Nighthawk
1Clapper Rail
5Marbled Godwit
3Short-billed Dowitcher
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Ring-billed Gull
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Least Tern
40Common Tern
5Sandwich Tern
1Black-crowned Night Heron
2Little Blue Heron
2Snowy Egret
1Eastern Kingbird
1Fish Crow
1Barn Swallow
1Northern Mockingbird
3House Sparrow
5Common Grackle
40Boat-tailed Grackle
1Northern Yellow Warbler
1Northern Cardinal

August 17

8Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Eastern Towhee
6Purple Martin
5European Starling
1Brown Thrasher

August 16

1Stilt Sandpiper
1Marsh Wren
2Pectoral Sandpiper

August 14

1Glossy Ibis
1Western Cattle-Egret
3American Avocet
8Dunlin
6Brown-headed Cowbird