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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, SouthCarolina and NorthCarolina.
It has earned the right to stand among the big boys, and is well worth your time should you find yourself in western SouthCarolina on a windy September day. I was leading a field trip with a dozen intrepid souls. The trip list at this site was low, but the total biomass was high in that way that good hawkwatches are.
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 NorthCarolina, so I had to go and have a look.
There are several states with 100-199 species: NorthCarolina (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).
“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 NorthCarolina. He once obtained a specimen in full plumage about ten miles north of Charleston.
Considered ‘undeveloped’ as a park, the habitat diversity here is some of the best in North America. Grandfather Mountain State Park, NorthCarolina. Table Rock State Park, SouthCarolina. There are 2,037 acres to explore, including miles of abandoned logging roads and hiking trails. Barred Owl. Ruffed Grouse.
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 SouthCarolina’s combined 146 counties as I can. This has been a challenging, but immensely fun, endeavor. State tick!
Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off NorthCarolina. Self-cleaning pens, never-empty feed buckets,” wrote Angel in SouthCarolina 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?”
After those five, there are relative handful with over 100 species: NorthCarolina (172), Michigan (159), Arizona (155), Washington (144), North Dakota (141!), California (297) is next, followed by Florida (227), Oregon (209), and New Jersey (199).
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