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10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2015
Perhaps it was their flashy color or the males’ tall crest that attracted the legislature to the bird, because in 1943 the Northern Cardinal became the official state bird of North Carolina. To say Northern Cardinals are common is an understatement. A male Northern Cardinal.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2015
Still, we are in the midst of spring migration here in North Carolina, and I wasn’t going to let a little cold stop me from seeing some birds. Exploring North Carolina gamelands. Trips butterflies migration North Carolina prairie warbler' My fiance and I arrived at the R.
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Critter News
SEPTEMBER 19, 2010
An enormous victory was achieved for animals this week when nearly 200 dogs and 54 cats were rescued from a North Carolina animal testing facility that closed its doors after an undercover investigation revealed apparent abuse of the animals by workers at the facility. Their investigations produce results. From the PR Newswire.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2018
While on our beach vacation in the Outer Banks of North Carolina in early April I took full advantage of our location just off the beach. In the afternoon the sun was at my back and the birds on the beach and over the water were perfectly illuminated for some nice digiscoping opportunities.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 9, 2018
This year, traveling in April instead of February, we decided to do a road trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. We broke the drive down into two segments: from New York to Delaware on 31 March and from Delaware to North Carolina on 1 April. Because we all enjoyed our trip so much we might do it again next year!
Critter News
FEBRUARY 3, 2009
More than 70 people have been arrested in a cockfighting ring that secretly gathered in central North Carolina to watch a $40,000 tournament so gruesome that one of the roosters splattered blood on the investigators' search warrant, authorities said. Disgusting. said in an interview Monday.
Reddit Animals
DECEMBER 12, 2020
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 11, 2014
This past weekend I headed out to eastern North Carolina with a group of friends to try our hand at a Rarity Roundup. So it goes with rails in coastal North Carolina. Birding county listing North Carolina rarities rarity roundup' Swamp Sparrows are abundant winter residents in eastern NC.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
However, this past weekend I was able to get out for a couple hours to take in a phenomenon that birders in North Carolina have rarely seen of late. The Poler Vortex that has sunk much of the North American continent into the deep freeze has had an effect on us on the margins as well. Trips ducks North Carolina winter'
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 22, 2015
The North Carolina Sage Thrasher on a less challenging day. So, Sage Thrasher in North Carolina! It creeps along, seemingly as frustrated with the rain as those 10 feet away who rapidly attempt to focus binoculars on it and curse at the tangles tripping up camera autofocus mechanisms. Photo by Nathan Gatto.
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.
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. I had the pleasure to attend the Carolina Bird Club’s spring meeting in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Birds North Carolina swainson''s Warbler wood-warblers'
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 2, 2013
Snowy Owls have been sighted as far south as North Carolina and some locations have as many as seven! Snowy Owl in North Carolina by Nathan Swick. The midwestern and northeastern United States, especially coastal regions and areas along the Great Lakes, is currently experiencing an invasion of Bubo scandiacus.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Lake Junaluska is surrounded by mountains, beautifully situated in scenic Western North Carolina, near the famous Blue Ridge Parkway and Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Birding in front of someone new is always a little nerve-wracking: Will she think I’m weird?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
Just about every species of bird that had ever been found in the Triangle of North Carolina had been seen at some time or another at Mason Farm. Warblers, thushes and vireos have been slowly piling into North Carolina over the last week. Birding North Carolina Patch Birding'
4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 21, 2012
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Critter News
APRIL 11, 2010
Tags: animal research Obama University of North Carolina federal stimulus.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2016
For the past several weeks a pair of Trumpeter Swans have made themselves at home along a road through Mattamuskeet NWR in eastern North Carolina. I know this for a fact, because this is precisely what I did last week when I spent a day in the eastern part of North Carolina chasing rarities.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2021
There are several states with 100-199 species: North Carolina (172, unchanged), Washington (171, up from 144), Michigan (159, unchanged), Virginia (147, up from 122), North Dakota (141, unchanged), Idaho (129, up from 57); New Mexico (112, unchanged); Massachusetts (110, up from 81); Colorado (106, unchanged), and Pennsylvania (109, up from 102).
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2014
I don’t expect that the rural Piedmont of North Carolina is much different from similar areas across the United States and even the world. It took me a second to make the connection, having not heard it in North Carolina in a couple years at least, and I arrived quickly at Dickcissel. Pretty sweet.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2015
My friend Paul Taillie and I had to meet an intrepid bunch of birders for the inaugural Outer Banks Big Day field trip at the Wings Over Water festival in eastern North Carolina. We were setting the bar for what someone hitting all the good spots on North Carolina’s famous barrier islands could reasonably accomplish.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2013
There are some birds I have not seen in North Carolina because they are very rare. There are some birds I have not seen in North Carolina because I have lousy luck. And there are some birds I have not seen in North Carolina because I am kind of a lazy lister. This is the story of the last one.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
A couple weekends ago I headed out to the Carolina Bird Club’s winter meeting in Nags Head, North Carolina, on the cusp of the Outer Banks. Birding North Carolina Outer Banks' All in all a fun trip. I’ll be back to close out 200 soon.
Reddit Animals
JANUARY 26, 2021
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2016
This is the second in a however-many-parts-it-takes series about western vagrants showing up on the coast of North Carolina. Back in November a small group of lucky shorebird surveyors found a Burrowing Owl sitting tight on a jetty on the south side of Masonboro Inlet in southeastern North Carolina.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 27, 2015
Closer examination nailed it down to Buff-bellied Hummingbird , North Carolina’s 2nd record. Not only was it a dynamite bird for the state, but it’s location in the center of North Carolina would make it easy for birders on both sides of the state to get to.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 30, 2015
But sometimes the stars align perfectly, as they did a couple weeks ago, in the form of North Carolina’s first record of Townsend’s Solitaire. The species has been on my personal radar for North Carolina for years. I’ve taken them on twitches before , but it’s always been a dicey proposition.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
I’ve taken tours out of Monterey Bay (with pelagic legend Debi Shearwater , now retired) and Half Moon Bay, California ; Newport, Oregon ; and Hatteras, North Carolina. But I took a day for myself for a 12-hour pelagic trip sponsored by Buena Vista Audubon.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
But at a hotel in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, he had a singing male Eastern Bluebird on Sunday morning, and that was definitely his Best Bird of the Weekend. Corey spent the weekend making his way south to Georgia, where he has now arrived at Tybee Island. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2014
Since listing, sound science, work towards habitat protection, acquisition and restoration and regulatory reforms its range has expanded north and west, and now includes portions of North Carolina and Mississippi, with significant nesting in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2015
My fiancé and I now fish and bird together frequently, and over my graduate program’s spring break turned our sights to Pisgah National Forest in the mountains of western North Carolina. Trips fishing North Carolina Pisgah National Forest' Another outdoor success for the birding and fishing duo!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2016
Swallow-tailed Kite is an enigmatic species in North Carolina. Outside of this corner of the state the birds can range widely, showing up in random fields in all corners of North Carolina. Their distribution in North Carolina is strange. Mexico, probably. And 2016 is kite year, evidently.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2013
As of the beginning of last month, I am no longer a resident of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Birds county listing North Carolina' Having lived in Chapel Hill for nearly 10 years and been an active birder in the area for nearly that long, this is something of a significant change. That’s some good camouflage.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 28, 2014
It can be boring, for sure, but my own birding lately has been pretty much exclusively in service of my home county list, that of Guilford County, North Carolina. For most North American birders, Sora is the most familiar Rallid on the continent. I realize that no one wants to hear about other people’s lists.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2012
Lead singer Josh Williams managed to keep the song going and the crowd sure appreciated the unexpected guest star in this video shot almost a year ago at the Doyle Lawson Bluegrass Festival in North Carolina. If bluegrass isn’t your thing the fun starts at the minute-and-a-half mark of the video. As for the bird? … a.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 5, 2013
And Nate couldn’t let North Carolina lag behind – he wrote up his long round trip to pick up North Carolina’s first Snowy Owl in thirteen years ! The Stokes checked out some Snowy Owls in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2015
The Gulf Stream lies between 20-40 miles off the North Carolina coast, and to the unpracticed eye it looks scarcely different that the expanse of blue water it courses through. These three aspects combine to produce one of the most productive spots in the North Atlantic, a place where birds and fish and marine mammals congregate.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
My home state of North Carolina can probably be considered the northern edge of the south, which means that when one of these long legged beauties wanders up across our state line it’s a pretty big deal. 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
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.
Critter News
JUNE 8, 2009
A deputy sheriff in North Carolina was demoted for getting involved in animal abuse cases without involving the local animal control officers. Sergeant Michael Lewis was demoted after he helped rescue malnourished horses in the Hampstead area.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 14, 2016
North Carolina is perhaps unfortunate to have a lot of such places. I admit I underestimated the resolve of North Carolina’s listing community. For every state vagrant that shows up at a feeder or in a public park, there seems to be one that turns up in a logistically impossible part of the state.
Critter News
DECEMBER 26, 2008
And the worst: Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arkansas, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, South Dakota, Wyoming You can check out the whole report on their web site.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 21, 2008
A golden lab was rescued by a North Carolina fishing guide about a mile from land. It sounds like his owner left him in one boat while he went off fishing with a friend in another. Some commenters think the story is a hoax. But at least the story has a happy ending. Feliz Friday!
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