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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 Kiawah Island--Captain Sams Spit

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

September 15

2Mourning Dove
60American Oystercatcher
14Black-bellied Plover
100Semipalmated Plover
4Piping Plover
1Long-billed Curlew
8Marbled Godwit
2Short-billed Dowitcher
1Willet
1Ruddy Turnstone
50Sanderling
20Dunlin
100Least Sandpiper
20Western Sandpiper
20Semipalmated Sandpiper
50Laughing Gull
4Ring-billed Gull
18American Herring Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
100Black Skimmer
1Gull-billed Tern
1Black Tern
30Forster's Tern
4Common Tern
4Sandwich Tern
50Royal Tern
1Great Egret
40Brown Pelican
10Black Vulture
10Turkey Vulture
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Downy Woodpecker
4American Crow
2Fish Crow
8Carolina Chickadee
4Tufted Titmouse
10Tree Swallow
2Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
2Northern Cardinal

September 11

9Wilson's Plover
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Great Black-backed Gull
9Caspian Tern
1Little Blue Heron
1Tricolored Heron
1Snowy Egret
1Osprey
1Bald Eagle