10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In order to create his dramatic, masterly paintings, eventually reproduced and issued under the title The Birds of America, Audubon traveled, at various points in the first part of the nineteenth century, across Pennsylvania and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Louisiana; along the Atlantic Coast from Charleston, South Carolina to the Florida (..)

Bald Eagle 147

Bald Eagle Louisville Pennsylvania Ohio 147

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. He once obtained a specimen in full plumage about ten miles north of Charleston.

New York 264

New York South Carolina North Carolina Massachusetts 264

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. Table Rock State Park, South Carolina. Appalachian cove forests dominate this park, which is surrounded by the northern portion of the Cherokee National Forest. Barred Owl.

West Virginia 197

West Virginia Virginia Kentucky South Carolina 197

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

This is a bird that flew over 3,400 miles in one flight from Brazil to South Carolina, an amazing bird that is representative of every other Whimbrel. This practice is a throwback to more than a century ago when gunners hunted shorebirds throughout the Americas. Machi was, of course, only one bird.

Hunters 258

Hunters Barbados South Carolina Hunting 258

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.

North Carolina 218

North Carolina Bald Eagle South Carolina Florida 218

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. We spotted our quarry before the car even came to a stop, it’s nice when state birds are so forthcoming.

North Carolina 167

North Carolina South Carolina Birds North America 167

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2011

I mention all of this because we in North America, especially the southern part of North America, have storks too. Its the only member of the genus Mycteria in the New World, the rest of its cogeners, a handful of other bald and nearly bald Storks with long curved bills, hail from East Africa and South Asia.

North America 171

North America Pedigree South Carolina Brazil 171