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The Carolina Bird Club is a non-profit organization that represents and supports the birding community in the Carolinas through its website, publications, meetings, workshops, trips, and partnerships, whose mission is


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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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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.

June 20

40Canada Goose
2Mourning Dove
1Semipalmated Plover
3Willet
4Greater Yellowlegs
1Least Sandpiper
30Laughing Gull
1American Herring Gull
1Black Skimmer
2Royal Tern
1White Ibis
1Little Blue Heron
3Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
10Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
2Brown Pelican
2Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
1Seaside Sparrow
20Red-winged Blackbird
1Boat-tailed Grackle
2Common Yellowthroat

June 19

2Black-necked Stilt
4Short-billed Dowitcher
2Least Tern
10Double-crested Cormorant
1Barn Swallow

June 16

8American Black Duck
4Clapper Rail
4American Oystercatcher
5Black-bellied Plover
2Killdeer
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Sanderling
31Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Parasitic Jaeger
2Ring-billed Gull
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Gull-billed Tern
2Caspian Tern
2Forster's Tern
2Common Tern
3Sandwich Tern
2Osprey
1Bald Eagle
2Purple Martin
1Gray Catbird
2Song Sparrow
2Eastern Towhee
2Eastern Meadowlark
1Orchard Oriole
5Common Grackle
1Northern Cardinal
2Blue Grosbeak

June 15

2White-rumped Sandpiper
1Eastern Kingbird