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About the Club Contact Information Executive Committee Join By-Laws Financial reports Presidents of the Carolina Bird Club Editors of The Chat Mission Statement is a non-profit organization that represents and supports the birding community in the Carolinas through its website, publications, meetings, workshops, trips, and partnerships, whose mission is To promote the observation, enjoyment, and study of birds. To provide opportunities for birders to become acquainted, and to share information and experience. To maintain well-documented records of birds in the Carolinas. To support the protection and conservation of birds and their habitats and foster an appreciation and respect of natural resources. To promote educational opportunities in bird and nature study. To support research on birds of the Carolinas and their habitats. Join us — Join, Renew, Donate , Inc., is a non-profit educational and scientific association open to anyone interested in the study and conservation of wildlife, particularly birds. The Club meets each winter, spring, and fall at different locations in the Carolinas. Meeting sites are selected to give participants an opportunity to see many different kinds of birds. Guided field trips and informative programs are combined for an exciting weekend of meeting with people who share an enthusiasm and concern for birds. The Club offers research grants in avian biology for undergraduate and graduate students, and scholarships for young birders. The Club publishes two print publications (now also available online). The Chat is a quarterly ornithological journal that contains scientific articles, reports of bird records committees and bird counts, and general field notes on bird sightings. CBC Newsletter is published bimonthly and includes birding articles and information about meetings, field trips, and Club news. The Club provides this website to all for free. By becoming a member, you support the activities of the Club, receive reduced registration fee for meetings, can participate in bonus field trips, and receive our publications. Join, Renew, or Donate now! Birding Locations North Carolina South Carolina -- Other Resources ( NOT sponsored by Carolina Bird Club) Birding Links carolinabirds mailing list Facebook groups Spring Meeting Black Mountain, NC — Apr 30–May 3, 2020 We will be returning to the mountains again for the 2020 Spring CBC Meeting in Black Mountain, NC about 10 miles east of Asheville. So it will be time to brush up once again on those mountain warblers and other neotropical migrants that typically breed or travel through the mountains of WNC. Meeting info — Field Trips — Register When Arch McCallum gave a presentation on Empidonax flycatchers at the Fall meeting he said he would have an online supplement in six months. Here it is! A guide to the sounds of eastern empids, with a brief description of the four clades: http://www.archmccallum.com/Ear/Projects/fgu/EmpEastIndex.html Also, a new presentation for the pandemic. Arch is posting each day a recording from his catalog of a bird sound recorded on that date (month and day) at some time in the past 39 years. http://www.archmccallum.com/Ear/SongADay/index.html Meeting schedule changes. The next two spring meetings are each moved back one year from their originally scheduled dates. The Spring 2021 meeting will be in Black Mountain, NC on May 6–9, 2021. The Spring meeting at Coker College, SC is moved to Spring 2022. Coronavirus emergency. With great regret, the Executive Committee has voted to cancel the spring meeting. Because of the expected limitations imposed by governmental authorities and plain common sense this decision is necessary. We will miss seeing everyone and some spring migrants but we do wish you all to stay in good health, and we hope to see you at our fall meeting in Beaufort, SC, in October. We'd especially like to thank Marilyn Westphal and Karyl Gabriel for their work in organizing the spring meeting, and all of the field trip leaders who were ready to lead. We are required by our by-laws to hold a business meeting every spring. The only business we must conduct is the election of new executive committee members. When the nominating committee has completed its work we will notify the membership of the nominees through email and the website and ask the membership for any nominees. We will also ask the membership to vote by proxy for these offices. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Lewis Burke . The April issue of the CBC Newsletter is available online. Lots of news there, including complete details on the Spring meeting at Black Mountain, NC. Raptor primers : Do you have trouble identifying hawks? Brush up on your skills with Mike Tove's expanded Identification primers , now covering Accipiter s, Eagles, Buteo s, Falcons, Kites and Harrier. Winter meeting . At the Winter CBC meeting at Litchfield, SC, participants identified 162 bird species . Do you know when your dues are due? Wonder no more, the enhanced online dues application will now tell you. New Rare Bird Alerts . is sponsoring a new Rare Bird Alert for South Carolina on the GroupMe platform. To join the RBA, click on this link https://groupme.com/join_group/52879351/5PT34NjX The link will guide you through setting up a GroupMe account if you don't have one, and you may also want to download the app for your smartphone. Also pay attention to the instruction to post at least one initial message, to avoid being kicked right back out of the group. A North Carolina GroupMe Rare Bird Alert, not sponsored by CBC, has been in operation since last year. The link to join that group is https://groupme.com/join_group/44042177/tdYiPA Communication in these groups is either via text message or through the app. To cut down on distractions for everyone it's requested that you limit communications to sharing timely location and presence information on chaseable "good" or rare birds. The Winter 2020 issue of The Chat is available online. Did you get an email about it? Jeyda Kathryn Bolukbasi CBC member publishes a book: Jeyda Kathryn Bolukbasi is a fourteen-year-old writer who was born in Charlotte, NC. Her passion for birds sparked the inspiration for her first published book, Tuah , which she wrote when the was thirteen. She hopes to attend Cornell University and study to become an ornithologist. Currently, she is the first junior volunteer at the Center for Birds of Prey in Awendaw, SC and a member of the Carolina Bird Club. County eBirding is a new feature on the website. eBird county listers can track their progress toward their county listing goals, and compare progress with their fellow county listers. You can find it under the “Features” pull-down on the main menu, or here . Birds of the Central Carolinas . The definitive book about the birds of the central Carolinas is available through Mecklenburg Audubon . The book is a first of its kind, an authoritative, comprehensive summary of the status, distribution, and historical context of all the birds regularly occurring in the Piedmont of both Carolinas. It in...