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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.

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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.

May 19

2Black-necked Stilt
15Semipalmated Plover
1Greater Yellowlegs
7Dunlin
3Least Tern
2Snowy Egret
1Eastern Kingbird
1Gray Catbird
4Boat-tailed Grackle
33Canada Goose
2Mourning Dove
3American Oystercatcher
1Black-bellied Plover
4Killdeer
10Short-billed Dowitcher
11Willet
5Ruddy Turnstone
4Sanderling
2White-rumped Sandpiper
7Least Sandpiper
18Semipalmated Sandpiper
18Laughing Gull
3American Herring Gull
1Sandwich Tern
1Royal Tern
2Double-crested Cormorant
10White Ibis
1Great Egret
4Brown Pelican
1Turkey Vulture
2Barn Swallow
2Northern Mockingbird
4Seaside Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
1Eastern Meadowlark
10Red-winged Blackbird
2Common Yellowthroat
1Tricolored Heron
1Carolina Wren
1Common Grackle
1Great Black-backed Gull
3Black Skimmer
1Osprey
3Purple Martin
2Eastern Towhee
2Brown-headed Cowbird
1Nashville Warbler
1Northern Cardinal
1Blue Grosbeak
2Red Knot
1Ring-billed Gull
1Gadwall
6American Black Duck
1Clapper Rail
1Great Crested Flycatcher
3Mallard
1Lesser Yellowlegs
1Stilt Sandpiper
2Forster's Tern
1Redhead
19American Avocet
1Red-necked Phalarope
1Black Tern
2European Starling
1Brown Thrasher
1Orchard Oriole

May 18

7Pectoral Sandpiper
1Caspian Tern
1Little Blue Heron
1Tree Swallow
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1White-eyed Vireo
1Marsh Wren
1Western Sandpiper
1Great Blue Heron
1Mallard x American Black Duck (hybrid)
1Piping Plover
1Common Tern
2Bobolink

May 17

2Black-crowned Night Heron
1House Finch
1Indigo Bunting
1Northern Pintail
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Bank Swallow
1Cedar Waxwing
1Baltimore Oriole
1Cape May Warbler

May 16

1American Redstart
1Pied-billed Grebe

May 15

1Bald Eagle
1Ruff
1Fish Crow
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Northern Yellow Warbler
1Virginia Rail
4Common Loon

May 14

1Merlin
1Least Flycatcher
4Rock Pigeon

May 13

1Hudsonian Whimbrel