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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.

July 21

2Canada Goose
13American Black Duck
12American Avocet
3American Oystercatcher
1Black-bellied Plover
2Killdeer
1Semipalmated Plover
2Short-billed Dowitcher
2Spotted Sandpiper
7Lesser Yellowlegs
8Willet
2Greater Yellowlegs
1Stilt Sandpiper
2White-rumped Sandpiper
3Least Sandpiper
1Pectoral Sandpiper
10Semipalmated Sandpiper
30Laughing Gull
4Least Tern
2Sandwich Tern
10Royal Tern
4Double-crested Cormorant
20White Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
4Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
14Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Brown Pelican
1Great Horned Owl
1Marsh Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
2Seaside Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
10Red-winged Blackbird
2Boat-tailed Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat

July 20

1Mallard
1Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
8Marbled Godwit
1Ruddy Turnstone
5Sanderling
5Western Sandpiper
5American Herring Gull
1Great Black-backed Gull
5Black Skimmer
1Gull-billed Tern
6Caspian Tern
1Black Tern
2Forster's Tern
5Common Tern
1Black-crowned Night Heron
1Eastern Kingbird
1Purple Martin
9Barn Swallow
2Carolina Wren
3Gray Catbird
2House Finch
2Eastern Meadowlark
5Common Grackle
2Northern Cardinal
1Blue Grosbeak

July 17

1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Ring-billed Gull

July 16

9Gadwall
11Black-necked Stilt
1Osprey
1Great Crested Flycatcher