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About the Club Contact Information Executive Committee Join Privacy policy 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 CarolinaOther Resources ( NOT sponsored by Carolina Bird Club) Birding Links carolinabirds mailing list Facebook groups Charleston, SC Spring meeting April 25–28, 2024 Charleston’s proximity to some of South Carolina’s finest and most treasured natural coastal resources allows us to offer trips to habitats ranging from wild, scenic beaches to longleaf pine savannas. We expect excellent birding, and our field trips are being designed to offer participants the opportunity to enjoy the best this region has to offer. We will offer birding trips south to the ACE Basin, north to the Santee Delta, and inland to the Orangeburg Sod Farm. Destinations include the Sea Islands (Kiawah and Seabrook), Charleston Harbor (Pitt St., Patriot’s Point, Ft. Moultrie), Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge, Dewees Island, and Folly Beach area hotspots (including little known Ft. Lamar), state wildlife management areas north and south, Francis Beidler Forest and Pine Bluff (new Audubon SC tract), Black River Cypress Preserve, and Caw Caw Interpretive Center. Meeting info — Field Trips — Register Charleston meeting . The Spring CBC meeting has wrapped up. Here is the preliminary checklist of birds seen . If you have additions or corrections to the list, let Kent Fiala know. eBird checklists: Charleston meeting participants: To find your eBird checklists, go to eBird Checklists . Find the field trips that you participated in and click through to share the checklist into your own eBird account. Also, anyone can view the eBird trip report for the meeting. Longleaf Pine Savannahs of the North Carolina Sandhills . Join us for a quick weekend getaway to the Sandhills Game Land and the Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature preserve outside of Southern Pines, NC. We’ll explore the diverse 58,000 acre Sandhills Preserve and fire-managed 930 acre Weymouth Woods, focusing on pine savannah specialist birds such as Northern Bobwhite , Bachman’s Sparrow , and the federally-endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker , to name a few. Spring migration will be at the tail end, and we will be on the lookout for any northbound migrants as well, anything and everything from warblers, tanagers, buntings and more. Mel Bowman passed away on Jan 26. He was a familiar face to anyone who has attended Carolina Bird Club meetings, as the husband of former Headquarters Secretary Carol Bowman. He is greatly missed. He requested that donations in his memory be made to the Carolina Bird Club, which you can do at the bottom of our donations page . The Winter 2024 issue of The Chat is available online. The June 2024 issue of the CBC Newsletter is available online. The Chat online . At long last, all issues of The Chat from 1937 to the present are accessible here. Read more at Chat online . The NC Bird Atlas is a statewide community science project to map birds during the breeding and wintering seasons. We support participation by a diversity of humans for the diversity of birds. Our motto is People Count. Birds Count. The use of Bird Atlases has become one of the most important tools for conservation and land management in the majority of states in the United States. Bird populations across the country face challenges from changes in land use, climate change effects, novel and expanding invasive species, and human development. Bird Atlases provide land managers and scientists with comprehensive data on bird populations through an effort that leverages thousands of active bird observers. The data collected through bird atlases is critical in informing conservation strategies and land management practices to ensure bird diversity for the future. Click here for more information about the North Carolina Bird Atlas. Youth membership . If you are age 18 or younger, you can have free membership! Have your parent email hq@carolinabirdclub.org (with "Youth Membership" in the subject line of the email) giving your name, address, email address (if any), and age. Birding Heroes Program . has established a new program to recognize individuals, families, or other entities that welcome, accommodate, and show great hospitality to the birding community, and which promotes ethical birding opportunities and/or conservation efforts. Recognition may include a number of items, including but not be limited to 1) a free one year membership to the Carolina Bird Club (CBC), 2) a certificate of appreciation and recognition on our website or in the CBC newsletter, 3) any other recognition that the Executive Committee deems appropriate. For more information on this program and how you can participate, please visit the Birding Heroes Program page. The link to this page can also be found under the "For Members" pull-down menu on every page. Wiles Creek Project . In August of 2020, the Carolina Bird Club donated $65,500 to the Southern Appalachians Highland Conservancy (SAHC)...