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The Carolina Bird Club is a non-profit organization that represents and supports the birding community in the Carolinas through its website, publications, meetings, workshops, trips, and partnerships, whose mission is


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The Carolina Bird Club, Inc., is a non-profit educational and scientific association open to anyone interested in the study and conservation of wildlife, particularly birds.

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.

The Club offers research grants in avian biology for undergraduate and graduate students, and scholarships for young birders.

The Club publishes two print publications (now also available online). The Chat is a quarterly ornithological journal that contains scientific articles, reports of bird records committees and bird counts, and general field notes on bird sightings. CBC Newsletter is published bimonthly and includes birding articles and information about meetings, field trips, and Club news.

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Recent reports from Oregon Inlet South Rock Jetty

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

September 16

3Mourning Dove
1Semipalmated Plover
1Willet
2Sanderling
7Laughing Gull
4Caspian Tern
1Royal Tern
2Double-crested Cormorant
1Snowy Egret
1Great Blue Heron
1Belted Kingfisher
1Eastern Kingbird
2Northern Mockingbird
5Red-winged Blackbird
2Common Grackle
1American Oystercatcher
1Black-bellied Plover
1Killdeer
1Piping Plover
1Spotted Sandpiper
3Ruddy Turnstone
8Semipalmated Sandpiper
5American Herring Gull
4Great Black-backed Gull
2Forster's Tern
48Brown Pelican
1Osprey
1Merlin
1Common Yellowthroat

September 14

2Lesser Yellowlegs
1Greater Yellowlegs
1Pectoral Sandpiper
4Western Sandpiper
1Ring-billed Gull
1Lesser Black-backed Gull
1Seaside Sparrow
6Boat-tailed Grackle

September 13

2Canada Goose
3American Black Duck
1Clapper Rail
1Solitary Sandpiper
1Stilt Sandpiper
4Common Tern
1Sandwich Tern
1Great Egret
1Turkey Vulture
1Carolina Wren
1Gray Catbird
3House Sparrow
1Baltimore Oriole

September 12

1American Golden-Plover
6Hudsonian Whimbrel
3Short-billed Dowitcher
64Least Sandpiper
2Fish Crow
2Northern Cardinal

September 11

14Black Skimmer
1Least Tern
3Bobolink
1American Redstart

September 10

4Rock Pigeon