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
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.
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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
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. There are 2,037 acres to explore, including miles of abandoned logging roads and hiking trails. Barred Owl. Ruffed Grouse.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
You Yankees may have your nesting warblers and winter finches, but in the sunny south we are wild with waders, which have the advantage of not only being generally gaudier, but much much easier to photograph. 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 9, 2013
Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. Self-cleaning pens, never-empty feed buckets,” wrote Angel in South Carolina and Zoe in California. “A “I don’t want to be too hasty in my response,” wrote Gay in Virginia. God, we’re a selfish bunch, aren’t we?”
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 10, 2012
My latest, and ongoing, project, akin in some ways to a Big Year, is the Carolina Century Project , in which I try to accumulate at least 100 species in as many of North and South Carolina’s combined 146 counties as I can. This has been a challenging, but immensely fun, endeavor. State tick!
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