10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2015
After spending the weekend along the South Carolina coast, I can say with confidence that I saw dozens and dozens of South Carolina’s state bird: both the original and the current version. Though South Carolina first chose the Northern Mockingbird as its state bird, in 1948 the general assembly changed its mind.
Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2010
Ugh, this is barbaric and right out of the dark ages. The training exercise called bear baying is intended to make the bears easier to shoot in the wild and it's only allowed in South Carolina. Animal rights advocates say it's cruel to the nearly defenseless bears and harms them psychologically. From the AP.
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Reddit Animals
JULY 21, 2023
It looks like there’s two right next to each other, but it doesn’t itch. She got bit on her foot by a bug of some kind. It’s a small, barely visible dot on her skin. It hurts around the bite area, and she occasionally gets a sharp stinging pain, and is slightly puffy. What did she get bit by?
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.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 23, 2011
Call it climate change, call it habitat restoration (in truth, it’s probably a little of both), but as far north as South Carolina you can find much of the same diversity in impressive concentrations, without the proximity to saccharine, nausea-inducing theme parks (though I’m told that proximity is actually a selling point for some.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2015
They are listed as threatened in South Carolina, with approximately 375 pairs of nesting plovers. Right off the bat I could watch the two cute birds, unobstructed by anything other than some low sand vegetation. Turns out, it took me almost 30 minutes to leave the parking lot! Nesting Wilson’s Plovers.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2013
Two days ago I went on Facebook and queried some of my exhausted compatriots: if you could have one wish right now – anything in the world – what would it be? “I Self-cleaning pens, never-empty feed buckets,” wrote Angel in South Carolina and Zoe in California. “A God, we’re a selfish bunch, aren’t we?”
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