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Hurricane Helene is estimated to have caused billions of dollars of damage in western NorthCarolina according to a government assessment of the historic storm, which flooded several veterinary hospitals in the region.
As part of Governor Roy Cooper’s NorthCarolina Opioid Action Plan, a new law will require the state’s veterinarians to report the use of gabapentin even though it is not a controlled substance. HB 190 goes into effect March 1, 2024, for pharmacies and March 1, 2025, for veterinarians.
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 NorthCarolina. To say Northern Cardinals are common is an understatement. A male Northern Cardinal.
Still, we are in the midst of spring migration here in NorthCarolina, and I wasn’t going to let a little cold stop me from seeing some birds. Exploring NorthCarolina gamelands. Trips butterflies migration NorthCarolina prairie warbler' My fiance and I arrived at the R.
by Dr. Dr. Eli Cohen, a clinical professor of diagnostic imaging at the NorthCarolina State College of Veterinary Medicine. AVMA Axon recently debuted the webinar "Do No Harm: Ethical and Legal Implications of A.I."
While on our beach vacation in the Outer Banks of NorthCarolina 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.
Kenneth Adler, PhD, professor of cell biology at NorthCarolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, and Masanobu Yamamoto, adjunct professor in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences at Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, will be inducted as fellows of the National Academy of (..)
An enormous victory was achieved for animals this week when nearly 200 dogs and 54 cats were rescued from a NorthCarolina 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.
However, this past weekend I was able to get out for a couple hours to take in a phenomenon that birders in NorthCarolina 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 NorthCarolina winter'
More than 70 people have been arrested in a cockfighting ring that secretly gathered in central NorthCarolina 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.
Snowy Owls have been sighted as far south as NorthCarolina and some locations have as many as seven! Snowy Owl in NorthCarolina 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.
This year, traveling in April instead of February, we decided to do a road trip to the Outer Banks of NorthCarolina. We broke the drive down into two segments: from New York to Delaware on 31 March and from Delaware to NorthCarolina on 1 April. Because we all enjoyed our trip so much we might do it again next year!
This past weekend I headed out to eastern NorthCarolina with a group of friends to try our hand at a Rarity Roundup. So it goes with rails in coastal NorthCarolina. Birding county listing NorthCarolina rarities rarity roundup' Swamp Sparrows are abundant winter residents in eastern NC.
I saw my first Swainson’s Warbler in eastern NorthCarolina, along the Roanoke River near the town of Weldon. I had the pleasure to attend the Carolina Bird Club’s spring meeting in Hendersonville, NorthCarolina. Birds NorthCarolina swainson''s Warbler wood-warblers'
Just about every species of bird that had ever been found in the Triangle of NorthCarolina had been seen at some time or another at Mason Farm. Warblers, thushes and vireos have been slowly piling into NorthCarolina over the last week. Birding NorthCarolina Patch Birding'
The Great Backyard Bird Count passed relatively uneventfully in NorthCarolina, and I hear other states/provinces had similarly pedestrian weekends. A little bit of background and NorthCarolina esoterica now. The Outer Banks are a chain of barrier islands that run down the northeast coast of the state.
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 NorthCarolina. If bluegrass isn’t your thing the fun starts at the minute-and-a-half mark of the video. As for the bird? … a.
There are some birds I have not seen in NorthCarolina because they are very rare. There are some birds I have not seen in NorthCarolina because I have lousy luck. And there are some birds I have not seen in NorthCarolina because I am kind of a lazy lister. This is the story of the last one.
And Nate couldn’t let NorthCarolina lag behind – he wrote up his long round trip to pick up NorthCarolina’s first Snowy Owl in thirteen years ! The Stokes checked out some Snowy Owls in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
I don’t expect that the rural Piedmont of NorthCarolina 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 NorthCarolina in a couple years at least, and I arrived quickly at Dickcissel. Pretty sweet.
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 NorthCarolina and Mississippi, with significant nesting in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and NorthCarolina.
A couple weekends ago I headed out to the Carolina Bird Club’s winter meeting in Nags Head, NorthCarolina, on the cusp of the Outer Banks. Birding NorthCarolina Outer Banks' All in all a fun trip. I’ll be back to close out 200 soon.
As of the beginning of last month, I am no longer a resident of Chapel Hill, NorthCarolina. Birds county listing NorthCarolina' 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.
The NorthCarolina Sage Thrasher on a less challenging day. So, Sage Thrasher in NorthCarolina! 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.
My home state of NorthCarolina 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 NorthCarolina, so I had to go and have a look.
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, NorthCarolina. 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.
The Gulf Stream lies between 20-40 miles off the NorthCarolina 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.
Evening Grosbeaks have been reported flying overhead across the state (even practically in my backyard), a couple Common Redpoll s made the listserv, and a trio of White-winged Crossbill s spend a few days at a botanical garden on NorthCarolina’s coast, the first such sightings in decades down here.
The bird was immediately apparent to be as such largely because a similar bird has been visiting a feeder, and well-photographed, in Henderson County in western NorthCarolina for the last three winters. And once you feel comfortable tackling winter sparrow intergrades, well, then I can introduce you to the really weird stuff.
They are, after all, pervasive, but provided you get far enough east in NorthCarolina the salt air tends to disagree with all but the hardiest individuals of that unholy trilogy. Here in the non-Floridian Southeast we have sparrows and starlings and pigeons.
On and off for the last several months I’ve been working on a personal project to enter a massive amount of old bird records from the state of NorthCarolina into eBird. It’s just the inertia of a community. The last couple years have certainly been a fun time to be birding around here.
Over-wintering hummingbirds have been a staple of birding in the southeast United States for the last 30 years or so, and in my state of NorthCarolina, it seems that a dozen or so are reported over the course of nearly every winter. At first glance, the idea of hummingbirds in the winter seems to be an odd one.
Ali Iyoob is sitting pretty at 230 species in his NorthCarolina big year during which he is trying to break the state record of 351. He better watch out though, because another birder in NorthCarolina also has reported 230 species so far this year! As of the end of March they had already reached a whopping 652 species
Way down in the Florida they have the bizarre Snail Kite and the gorgeous Swallow-tailed Kite , both of which have made their way up as far north as NorthCarolina, though the former only once. We in the south are stuffed silly with kites. This is a bird that does not mess around.
The Delmarva Peninsula juts southward towards NorthCarolina like the appendix of the eastern seaboard. It’s southernmost third, given to Virginia by accident of history rather than geopolitical intention, lies apart from the rest of the state both culturally and geographically.
Closer examination nailed it down to Buff-bellied Hummingbird , NorthCarolina’s 2nd record. Not only was it a dynamite bird for the state, but it’s location in the center of NorthCarolina would make it easy for birders on both sides of the state to get to.
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 NorthCarolina. We were setting the bar for what someone hitting all the good spots on NorthCarolina’s famous barrier islands could reasonably accomplish.
I’ve been told that you can regularly find yourself in some pretty exceptional shorebirding in NorthCarolina as you get closer to the coast. The opportunity to avoid the awkward re-learning period one must go through when suddenly faced with shorebird-y shapes on distant mudflats.
I’ve written before about by ongoing quest to find a new patch in new home of Greensboro, NorthCarolina, and my more or less failed attempt thus far in turning up anything of note. Birding NorthCarolina Patch Birding' Not shown are the Blue Jays escorting here away from the area. I’ve got my patch.
I reached two of my personal NorthCarolina birding goals this year. But when Neil said he had his eye on Hatteras, NorthCarolina, for his final push for the record, even the promise of freezing in Brian’s new smaller boat, the Skua , was enough to keep me away. 2013 was an excellent year for me as a birder.
Nothing says “real” spring like the first burst of piercing slurry whistles from down a NorthCarolina stream. And perhaps the most exciting recent arrival is the Golden Swamp Warbler itself, the eye-searing Prothonotary Warbler.
If the state of NorthCarolina is known for one thing in the greater birding world, it’s what goes on off of its central coast. Here’s the deal with NorthCarolina though, if you go far enough, the continental shelf gives way to the true deep ocean. But wait, he says, there’s more!
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