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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.

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Recent reports from Pea Island NWR

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

November 14

250Black Scoter ✓
1Clapper Rail ✓
1Black-bellied Plover ✓
1Piping Plover ✓
3Sanderling ✓
2Dunlin ✓
3Purple Sandpiper
22Laughing Gull ✓
15Ring-billed Gull ✓
35American Herring Gull ✓
40Great Black-backed Gull ✓
200Lesser Black-backed Gull ✓
6Royal Tern ✓
8Northern Gannet ✓
1000Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
40Brown Pelican ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Gray Catbird ✓
3Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Savannah Sparrow ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
1Swamp Sparrow ✓
1Eastern Towhee ✓
20Common Grackle ✓
10Boat-tailed Grackle ✓
12Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
2Tundra Swan ✓
1Northern Shoveler ✓
10Gadwall ✓
7American Wigeon ✓
8American Black Duck ✓
6Northern Pintail ✓
1American Avocet ✓
2Greater Yellowlegs ✓
6White Ibis ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
2Great Egret ✓
1Great Blue Heron ✓
6American White Pelican ✓
60Canada Goose ✓
28Mallard ✓
120Green-winged Teal ✓
45Redhead ✓
1Ring-necked Duck ✓
1Bufflehead ✓
1Semipalmated Plover ✓
2Prairie Willet ✓
3Caspian Tern ✓
14Forster's Tern ✓
3Snowy Egret ✓
3Turkey Vulture ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Eastern Meadowlark ✓
1Red-winged Blackbird ✓
1Northern Cardinal ✓
1Mourning Dove ✓
2Common Tern ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
3Tree Swallow ✓
14European Starling ✓

November 13

1Blue-winged Teal ✓
10Hooded Merganser ✓
50American Coot ✓
2Marbled Godwit ✓
7Pied-billed Grebe ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
1Brown-headed Cowbird ✓

November 12

3Ruddy Duck ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Eurasian Wigeon ✓
1Short-billed Dowitcher ✓
1Nelson's Sparrow ✓

November 11

1Peregrine Falcon ✓
1Sedge Wren ✓
1Orange-crowned Warbler ✓
1Blue Jay ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
1Lesser Yellowlegs ✓
2Red Knot ✓
1Snow Goose ✓
8Surf Scoter ✓
1Great Cormorant ✓
1White-throated Sparrow ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
17Greater Scaup ✓
5Lesser Scaup ✓
1Black-necked Stilt ✓
3Killdeer ✓
1American Bittern ✓
1Black-crowned Night Heron ✓
1Sharp-shinned Hawk ✓
1American Kestrel ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
2Northern House Wren ✓
2Eastern Marsh Wren ✓
1American Robin ✓
1Cedar Waxwing ✓
3American Pipit ✓
2House Finch ✓
2Pine Siskin ✓
1American Goldfinch ✓
1Lincoln's Sparrow ✓
2Palm Warbler ✓
1Barn Swallow ✓
1Virginia Rail ✓
28Long-billed Dowitcher ✓
4Least Sandpiper ✓
18Western Sandpiper ✓
3Bonaparte's Gull ✓
7Black Skimmer ✓
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
2House Sparrow ✓

November 10

3Wood Duck ✓
3Sandwich Tern ✓
1Common Eider ✓

November 9

1Wilson's Phalarope
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓

November 8

1Yellow-billed Cuckoo ✓