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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 Cape Romain NWR--Bulls Island

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

November 15

2Wood Duck
12Blue-winged Teal
6Northern Shoveler
6Mottled Duck
8Green-winged Teal
2Lesser Scaup
20Black Scoter
10Bufflehead
12Hooded Merganser
2Mourning Dove
5Clapper Rail
3Common Gallinule
5American Coot
5American Oystercatcher
40Black-bellied Plover
250Semipalmated Plover
5Piping Plover
1Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Long-billed Curlew
100Short-billed Dowitcher
2Spotted Sandpiper
30Willet
5Greater Yellowlegs
20Sanderling
100Dunlin
40Western Sandpiper
1Bonaparte's Gull
2Laughing Gull
30Ring-billed Gull
2American Herring Gull
2Caspian Tern
10Forster's Tern
10Royal Tern
12Pied-billed Grebe
2Common Loon
1Wood Stork
35Northern Gannet
400Double-crested Cormorant
25White Ibis
8Black-crowned Night Heron
4Little Blue Heron
70Tricolored Heron
12Snowy Egret
3Great Egret
6Great Blue Heron
4American White Pelican
20Brown Pelican
2Black Vulture
6Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
3Northern Harrier
4Bald Eagle
2Great Horned Owl
5Belted Kingfisher
5Red-bellied Woodpecker
2Northern Flicker
1American Kestrel
1Peregrine Falcon
16Eastern Phoebe
1Blue-headed Vireo
3Blue Jay
5Carolina Chickadee
2Tufted Titmouse
8Tree Swallow
12Ruby-crowned Kinglet
2Golden-crowned Kinglet
1Brown Creeper
5Northern House Wren
3Marsh Wren
4Carolina Wren
3Northern Mockingbird
1Eastern Bluebird
2American Robin
5Cedar Waxwing
2House Finch
12Song Sparrow
3Swamp Sparrow
250Red-winged Blackbird
10Common Grackle
15Boat-tailed Grackle
1Black-and-white Warbler
1Orange-crowned Warbler
5Pine Warbler
25Yellow-rumped Warbler
12Northern Cardinal