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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 Bear Island WMA (fall and winter restricted access)

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

May 15

4Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Canada Goose
2Wood Duck
7Mourning Dove
1Clapper Rail
2Common Gallinule
1Purple Gallinule
4Killdeer
3Short-billed Dowitcher
2Spotted Sandpiper
1Least Sandpiper
2Wood Stork
1Anhinga
1Double-crested Cormorant
3Roseate Spoonbill
1Least Bittern
1Little Blue Heron
1Snowy Egret
4Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1American White Pelican
1Osprey
1Red-shouldered Hawk
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
3Eastern Wood-Pewee
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Eastern Kingbird
2White-eyed Vireo
1Red-eyed Vireo
8Blue Jay
10American Crow
1Tufted Titmouse
8Tree Swallow
2Purple Martin
2Northern Rough-winged Swallow
5Cliff Swallow
1Brown-headed Nuthatch
1Sedge Wren
4Marsh Wren
1Carolina Wren
1Brown Thrasher
1Northern Mockingbird
1Eastern Bluebird
1American Robin
3Eastern Towhee
2Yellow-breasted Chat
1Orchard Oriole
XRed-winged Blackbird
2Common Grackle
5Boat-tailed Grackle
6Common Yellowthroat
2Northern Parula
1Northern Yellow Warbler
2Pine Warbler
1Yellow-throated Warbler
1Summer Tanager
1Northern Cardinal
1Blue Grosbeak
1Painted Bunting

May 13

2Mottled Duck
2Black-necked Stilt
3Black-bellied Plover
7Semipalmated Plover
4Lesser Yellowlegs
80Dunlin
40Semipalmated Sandpiper
40Black Skimmer
4Least Tern
3Forster's Tern
1Tricolored Heron
3Green Heron
2Fish Crow
4Barn Swallow
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1Indigo Bunting

May 11

7White Ibis
2Black Vulture
1Eastern Screech-Owl
1Northern Flicker
1Carolina Chickadee
1Brown-headed Cowbird

May 10

1Common Nighthawk
2American Coot
2Laughing Gull
7Gull-billed Tern
2Royal Tern
6Turkey Vulture
1Bald Eagle
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1Pied-billed Grebe
3Mississippi Kite
1Blackpoll Warbler
3Northern Shoveler
2Eurasian Collared-Dove
4Willet
1Downy Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker