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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.

June 8

1Garganey
1Blue-winged Teal
3Mallard
27American Black Duck
1Black-necked Stilt
10American Avocet
1American Oystercatcher
1Semipalmated Plover
4Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Laughing Gull
1Black Skimmer
3Least Tern
1Eastern Meadowlark
6Red-winged Blackbird
4Boat-tailed Grackle
1Common Yellowthroat
15Canada Goose
5Gadwall
1Killdeer
3Short-billed Dowitcher
4Willet
2Least Sandpiper
1American Herring Gull
5Forster's Tern
2Royal Tern
11Double-crested Cormorant
2White Ibis
6Great Egret
3Brown Pelican
3Barn Swallow
3Common Grackle
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Tricolored Heron
1Northern Mockingbird
1Blue Grosbeak
2Purple Martin
2European Starling
1Mourning Dove
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Eastern Kingbird

June 7

1Osprey
2Great Blue Heron
3Northern Cardinal
2Black-bellied Plover
1Brown-headed Cowbird
1Ruddy Turnstone
1Ring-billed Gull
1Northern Shoveler
5White-rumped Sandpiper
1Little Blue Heron
1Black Tern
3Snowy Egret

June 6

1Caspian Tern
1Pied-billed Grebe
10Dunlin
1Sandwich Tern
1Mallard x American Black Duck (hybrid)
2Marbled Godwit
1Sanderling
1Turkey Vulture
1Brown Thrasher
1Song Sparrow
3Lesser Black-backed Gull
5Red Knot
1Gull-billed Tern
1Orchard Oriole
1Lesser Yellowlegs
1Virginia Rail