10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2018
You can blame the nice people at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, who took it upon themselves to send me a review copy of the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America by Seabrooke Leckie and David Beadle. Moth plates from Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Southeastern North America. Let that sink in.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2015
The Great Backyard Bird Count passed relatively uneventfully in North Carolina, and I hear other states/provinces had similarly pedestrian weekends. A little bit of background and North Carolina esoterica now. The Outer Banks are a chain of barrier islands that run down the northeast coast of the state.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2021
“This beautiful and singular bird, although a constant resident in the southern extremities of the peninsula of Florida, seldom extends its journeys in an eastern direction beyond the State of North Carolina.
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2014
The wood stork occurs and breeds in Central and South America. The wood stork was listed as endangered in 1984, because the Florida population was dropping at an approximate rate of 5 percent per year. Some predicted that at that rate the wood stork would become extinct by the year 2000. However, birds in the U.S.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 27, 2018
Considered ‘undeveloped’ as a park, the habitat diversity here is some of the best in North America. Grandfather Mountain State Park, North Carolina. There are 2,037 acres to explore, including miles of abandoned logging roads and hiking trails. Barred Owl. Photo by © Mike Blevins.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
Here in the southern reaches of North America, we’re fortunate to have opportunities to view birds that are far more common far more south – like neotropics south – with some regularity. And there were a couple of them recently reported down at the southern tip of North Carolina, so I had to go and have a look.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 14, 2011
If the state of North Carolina is known for one thing in the greater birding world, it’s what goes on off of its central coast. Here’s the deal with North Carolina though, if you go far enough, the continental shelf gives way to the true deep ocean. But wait, he says, there’s more!
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