10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2018

This is the third year that my family and some our close friends did a vacation together. This year, traveling in April instead of February, we decided to do a road trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. And feel free to leave additional recommendations for good birding stops on the drive between New York and North Carolina.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. Monte in California agreed: “I’d like some time just to watch healthy wild families.”.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2015

Turns out, Monday brought more than a little rain, and we got soaked as we explored the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge and the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge along the ocean. Our last and final stop was the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, one of my favorite birding spots.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

Many winter in Florida, admittedly something of a freak state when it comes to overwintering passerines, but a few Orioles can be found up the coast as far north as North Carolina, and the odd bird finds its way into the Piedmont, the part of the state, well inland mind you, where I live. The proposal from U.S.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2013

Recently a baby was born in North Carolina with Trisomy 13, a chromosomal abnormality so severe most carriers die at birth. Environmentalists view helium–filled balloon releases as wildlife killers. Make it easily found by mourning families, and fill it with photos. Here’s where the internet trouble began.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

I am really excited to say I’ll be heading down to Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival in Titusville, Florida, next month as a correspondent for 10,000 Birds. So when I stepped out of the family mini-van in the parking lot of our hotel in Fort Meyers and say about a dozen and half Magnificent Frigatebirds circling over a pond?

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