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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 Cape Hatteras NS--Salt Pond

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

July 6

35Canada Goose
40Mourning Dove
1Common Nighthawk
1King Rail
2American Oystercatcher
3Killdeer
6Willet
2Greater Yellowlegs
16Semipalmated Sandpiper
20Laughing Gull
2American Herring Gull
1Black Skimmer
20Least Tern
1Gull-billed Tern
1Forster's Tern
1Common Tern
1Sandwich Tern
2Royal Tern
2Double-crested Cormorant
1Great Blue Heron
8American Crow
10Barn Swallow
1Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
4Eastern Meadowlark
20Red-winged Blackbird
3Common Yellowthroat

July 3

2American Black Duck
1Black-bellied Plover
3Hudsonian Whimbrel
1Lesser Yellowlegs
2Ruddy Turnstone
2Least Sandpiper
6Ring-billed Gull
5Great Black-backed Gull
1Great Shearwater
3Brown Pelican
1Osprey

July 2

1Gadwall
3Piping Plover
2Lesser Black-backed Gull
3Black Tern
1Turkey Vulture
3Boat-tailed Grackle

June 30

1Tricolored Heron