10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2014

I saw my first Swainson’s Warbler in eastern North Carolina, along the Roanoke River near the town of Weldon. The story is etched into my memory not for my experience with the bird, which was an obstructed view of a singing male through a mess of dense underbrush at about 100 feet, but for the effort it took to get there.

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North Carolina Groups Experience Experiments 186

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

“Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. Why is there no state or federal money available to care for federally protected species? Eventually everyone made it to their computer, and created the Summer of 2013 Rehabber’s Wish List: Money.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 245

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

The Outer Banks are known for their spectacular sand beaches, and in the protected areas these sand expanses are wide and largely free of visitors during the early summer. Though we were almost rained out, my graduation Outer Banks trip will remain a highlight of my time in North Carolina. Yellow-billed Cuckoo.

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North Carolina Alligators Wildlife Woodpeckers 171

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

I also did not understand the centrality of the Delaware Bay to shorebird migration, how timing and geographic design and water quality and tidal streams, the rich salt marshes and protected beaches combine to make this specific area of New Jersey and Delaware “The Most Important Stopover of the Western Hemisphere.”

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Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 179