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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 Savannah NWR--Laurel Hill Wildlife Dr

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

May 22

7Mourning Dove
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo
2Common Gallinule
1Killdeer
4Least Sandpiper
2Least Tern
1Common Tern
1Anhinga
2Little Blue Heron
1Green Heron
1Western Cattle-Egret
2Great Egret
1Osprey
1Belted Kingfisher
4Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Great Crested Flycatcher
4Blue Jay
1Carolina Chickadee
1Tufted Titmouse
2Barn Swallow
5Carolina Wren
2Northern Mockingbird
1Eastern Towhee
200Red-winged Blackbird
201Boat-tailed Grackle
7Northern Cardinal
2Blue Grosbeak
1Indigo Bunting
2Painted Bunting
1Clapper Rail
1Purple Gallinule
3Black-necked Stilt
1Spotted Sandpiper
2Laughing Gull
1Gull-billed Tern
3Forster's Tern
1Royal Tern
1Least Bittern
1Great Blue Heron
1Eastern Kingbird
1White-eyed Vireo
1Eastern Bluebird
2House Finch
1Common Grackle
2Common Yellowthroat
1Northern Parula
1Yellow-throated Warbler

May 21

2Mottled Duck
1Turkey Vulture
1Swallow-tailed Kite
2Mississippi Kite
1Brown-headed Cowbird
1Black-and-white Warbler

May 20

1Common Nighthawk
1Fish Crow
1Sandwich Tern
1White Ibis
2Black-crowned Night Heron
1Snowy Egret
2Red-tailed Hawk
2Brown Thrasher
2Pine Warbler

May 19

2Double-crested Cormorant
2Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
1Tree Swallow
1Northern Rough-winged Swallow
2Orchard Oriole

May 18

1King Rail
1Northern Flicker
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1American Robin

May 16

1Glossy Ibis
1Semipalmated Plover
1Wood Stork
1Cooper's Hawk
1Bobolink
1Summer Tanager