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!

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AVMA News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Kenneth Adler, PhD, professor of cell biology at North Carolina 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 (..)

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AVMA News

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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'

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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'

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SalesFuel

AUGUST 9, 2024

billion Arizona: $821 million Pennsylvania: $725 million Michigan: $659 million Nevada: $576 million New York: $437 million North Carolina: $435 million Ohio: $386 million Georgia: $383 million Florida: $383 million Wisconsin: $362 million Of course, all states are important to advertise to. The highest spenders are: California: $1.19

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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).

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SalesFuel

APRIL 24, 2024

Their goal is to keep their market sales volume as is and try to garner more share from a direct competitor down the road, as [my area in North Carolina] is an incredibly saturated market for automotive.” “I knew I had to get into AdMall to see what I could find to build my plan.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

I’ve written before about by ongoing quest to find a new patch in new home of Greensboro, North Carolina, and my more or less failed attempt thus far in turning up anything of note. Birding North Carolina Patch Birding' Not shown are the Blue Jays escorting here away from the area. I’ve got my patch.

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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.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2018

” Despite the cruel, cold weather I was out and about on both Saturday and Sunday morning, despite the added cruelty of just having returned from (slightly) warmer North Carolina late on Friday night.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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