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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 East Shackleford Banks

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

November 7

1Red-breasted Merganser
3Mourning Dove
1American Avocet
90American Oystercatcher
150Black-bellied Plover
125Semipalmated Plover
6Piping Plover
1Wilson's Plover
4Hudsonian Whimbrel
4Long-billed Curlew
107Marbled Godwit
80Short-billed Dowitcher
2Long-billed Dowitcher
15Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
75Ruddy Turnstone
1Red Knot
35Sanderling
2500Dunlin
3Least Sandpiper
35Western Sandpiper
1Semipalmated Sandpiper
25Laughing Gull
65Ring-billed Gull
18American Herring Gull
6Great Black-backed Gull
2Caspian Tern
47Forster's Tern
145Sandwich Tern
18Royal Tern
85Double-crested Cormorant
1White Ibis
1Tricolored Heron
1Reddish Egret
3Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
65Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Cooper's Hawk
1Northern Harrier
1Bald Eagle
1Northern Flicker
9Tree Swallow
1Northern House Wren
1Sedge Wren
3Gray Catbird
4Northern Mockingbird
5Savannah Sparrow
2Song Sparrow
1Eastern Towhee
2Eastern Meadowlark
7Yellow-rumped Warbler
2Northern Cardinal