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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--North Pond

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

April 25

10Canada Goose
1Mute Swan
2American Wigeon
2Mallard
2American Black Duck
2Green-winged Teal
1Bufflehead
2Mourning Dove
1American Coot
2Black-necked Stilt
1American Oystercatcher
4Killdeer
2Marbled Godwit
3Lesser Yellowlegs
1Willet
1Greater Yellowlegs
XLaughing Gull
3Least Tern
1Royal Tern
4Double-crested Cormorant
XBrown Pelican
1Tricolored Heron
1Great Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Carolina Wren
1Northern Mockingbird
1Savannah Sparrow
XRed-winged Blackbird
1Boat-tailed Grackle
1Northern Cardinal
6Gadwall
2Redhead
1Clapper Rail
6Black-bellied Plover
3Herring Gull
25Black Skimmer
1Sandwich Tern
3Common Loon
1Snowy Egret
2Eastern Kingbird
1Barn Swallow
1Marsh Wren
1Gray Catbird
1Field Sparrow
1Seaside Sparrow
1Song Sparrow
2Eastern Towhee
2Eastern Meadowlark
1Common Yellowthroat
2Yellow-rumped Warbler

April 24

10Blue-winged Teal
6Ruddy Turnstone
2Sanderling
300Dunlin
3Least Sandpiper
2Pectoral Sandpiper
100Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Gull-billed Tern
20Forster's Tern
1Common Tern
2Sedge Wren

April 23

3Northern Shoveler
1Northern Pintail
5Ruddy Duck
3Short-billed Dowitcher
2Fish Crow
2Hooded Merganser
3Red-breasted Merganser
3American Avocet
3Bonaparte's Gull
1Great Black-backed Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1White Ibis
1Osprey
1Bald Eagle

April 22

2Little Blue Heron
2Brown-headed Cowbird
2Common Grackle

April 20

1Greater Scaup
20Ring-billed Gull
1Caspian Tern