[TN-Bird] SC Birds
- From: "Aborn, David" <David-Aborn@xxxxxxx>
- To: "tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 13:19:11 +0000
I know it is out of state, but I thought some of you might be interested in
what we saw when I took my Ornithology class down to the South Carolina coast
for the first half of spring break. We went to Huntington Beach State Park,
Santee Coastal Reserve, and Hobcaw Barony. The weather was superb, the students
were great, and birding was pretty good. There were a number of firsts for the
trip (I have taken 8 classes down there), but there were a lot of misses,
especially shorebirds (only 2 Willets, 10 Sanderlings, no turnstones or other
peeps). Still, it was a good trip. Here is our list (86 species):
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
Mottled Duck (1st)
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Green-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
White-winged Scoter (1st)
Black Scoter (1st)
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Northern Gannet
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
American Bittern (1st)
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron
Glossy Ibis
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
American Kestrel
Clapper Rail
American Coot
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willet
Sanderling
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Forster's Tern
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Eastern Screech-Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Yellow-shafted Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow
Carolina chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Yellow-throated Warbler
Pine Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Chipping Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Boat-tailed Grackle
Common Grackle
House Finch
American Goldfinch
David Aborn
Chattanooga, TN
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