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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--South Pond

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

September 22

5Canada Goose
6Gadwall
1Rock Pigeon
4Black-bellied Plover
3Willet
3Greater Yellowlegs
5Laughing Gull
10American Herring Gull
2Common Tern
10White Ibis
3Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
10Great Egret

September 21

2Blue-winged Teal
1Black-necked Stilt
28American Avocet
18Marbled Godwit
120Black Skimmer
3Black Tern
2Double-crested Cormorant
3Little Blue Heron
5Great Blue Heron
10Northern Pintail
1Killdeer
2Lesser Yellowlegs
33Forster's Tern
10Northern Shoveler
30American Black Duck
8Semipalmated Plover
2Pectoral Sandpiper
5Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Royal Tern
3Pied-billed Grebe
1Reddish Egret
1Brown Pelican
4Boat-tailed Grackle

September 18

10Short-billed Dowitcher
5Western Sandpiper
1Ring-billed Gull
12Caspian Tern
1Great Cormorant
30Sanderling
6Sandwich Tern
1Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
1Red-winged Blackbird
3Green-winged Teal
1Least Sandpiper
14European Starling
1Common Grackle

September 17

1Northern Cardinal