The Carolina Bird Club

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Web Name: The Carolina Bird Club

WebSite: http://www.carolinabirdclub.org

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Forgot Password?Before you can login for the first time, you mustcreate a login password.The Carolina Bird Club is a non-profit organizationthat represents and supports the birding community in the Carolinasthrough its website, publications, meetings, workshops, trips, and partnerships,whose mission isTo 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.The Carolina Bird Club, Inc., is a non-profit educational and scientificassociation open to anyone interested in the studyand conservation of wildlife, particularly birds.The Club meets each winter, spring, and fall at different locations inthe Carolinas. Meeting sites are selected to give participants anopportunity to see many different kinds of birds. Guided field trips andinformative programs are combined for an exciting weekend of meetingwith people who share an enthusiasm and concern for birds.The Club offers research grants in avian biology for undergraduate andgraduate 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 articlesand 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,receivereduced registration fee for meetings, can participate inbonus field trips, and receive our publications. Join, Renew, or Donate now!Many Christmas Bird Counts are being held again this year. See the list of counts in the Carolinas forinformation about individual counts.Email problems.For a while, Microsoft email servers were blocking all mail fromcarolinabirdclub.org. This means that if you have ahotmail.com,live.com,msn.com, oroutlook.com email address, you missed some notifications about our election, and the new Newsletter.Microsoft support actually responded and things seem to be getting through again though. We'll see.Wiles Creek Project. In August of 2020, the Carolina Bird Club donated $65,500 to the Southern Appalachians Highland Conservancy (SAHC) for the protection and management of bird habitat in western North Carolina, specifically for the management of habitat for Golden-winged Warbler and for the protection of other high priority habitats and bird species that occupy habitats from below 3000' to habitats above 5000'. Some of these species are Black-billed Cuckoo, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Least Flycatcher, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Alder Flycatcher, Canada Warbler, and Red Crossbill. Officially, the title of the project is "Land Protection and Conservation Measures for Golden-winged Warbler and Associated High Elevation Avian Species in Western North Carolina," or the Wiles Creek Project for short. Here is an article about the Wiles Creek Project.New web features!We now can offer the full contents of the book Birds of the Central Carolinas online! Written by Donald W. Seriff, Birds of the Central Carolinas is the definitive work on the status, distribution, and history of birds in the region centered on Charlotte, and has much to offer for the greater surrounding area as well.Read book reviews here and here.Also from Don Seriff, we now have the Breeding Bird Atlas of Mecklenburg County, NC available online.The October issue of the CBC Newsletter is available online.is available online. Did you get an email about it?News from the Grants Committee.Currently all of the research and conservation grant funds for calendaryear 2020 have been awarded. However, the Grants Committee will reviewany proposals that are high priority and have a compelling conservationneed. If you feel your proposal fits this criteria, please contact theGrants Committee to determineeligibility prior to submitting a proposal.Meetings cancelled.Due to current circumstances surrounding COVID-19 and the unknown future of the spread and threat of the virus in the Carolinas, the Executive Committee has voted to cancel the Fall 2020 and Winter 2021 Meetings of the Carolina Bird Club, this being the responsible action to ensure the safety of our Club members and the public.When Arch McCallum gave a presentation on Empidonax flycatchers at the Fall meetinghe 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.htmlAlso, a new presentation for the pandemic. Arch is posting each day a recording from his catalogof 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.htmlRaptor primers: Do you have trouble identifying hawks?Brush up on your skills with Mike Tove's expanded Identification primers, now coveringAccipiters, Eagles, Buteos, Falcons, Kites and Harrier. Do you know when your dues are due? Wonder no more, the enhanced online dues application will now tell you.New Rare Bird Alerts.The Carolina Bird Club is sponsoring a new Rare Bird Alert for SouthCarolina on the GroupMe platform. To join the RBA, click on this linkhttps://groupme.com/join_group/52879351/5PT34NjXThe link will guide you through setting up a GroupMe account if youdon't have one, and you may also want to download the app for yoursmartphone.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 beenin operation since last year. The link to join that group ishttps://groupme.com/join_group/44042177/tdYiPACommunication in these groups is either via text message or through theapp. To cut down on distractions for everyone it's requested that youlimit communications to sharing timely location and presenceinformation on chaseable "good" or rare birds.CBC member publishes a book:Jeyda Kathryn Bolukbasi is a fourteen-year-old writer who was born inCharlotte, NC. Her passion for birds sparked the inspiration for herfirst published book, Tuah, which she wrote when the was thirteen. Shehopes to attend Cornell University and study to become an ornithologist.Currently, she is the first junior volunteer at the Center for Birds ofPrey in Awendaw, SC and a member of the Carolina Bird Club.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 Carolinasis available throughMecklenburg Audubon.The bookis a first of its kind, an authoritative, comprehensive summary of thestatus, distribution, and historical context of all the birds regularlyoccurring in the Piedmont of both Carolinas. It includes originalhistorical research never before compiled and published in online sources;full accounts of 312 species with additional partial accounts of another60 species; over 400 color photographs taken in the central Carolinas;and the complete results of the Mecklenburg County Breeding Bird Atlas.Make Birders Count:Buy Your Duck Stamp Through the ABAThe American Birding Association has made it easy to buy a Duck Stamp.Birders use refuges too. Buying a Duck Stamp through the ABA shows your support as a birder forhabitat and bird conservation.If you would like to help us out by reading the newsletter only online and not in print,please go tomember profile and select I want to receive my copy online only . The Chat goes online-only:Beginning with the Winter 2018 issue, The Chat will be published online only.Dis continuing print publication will result in significant financial savings,a percentage of which will be deposited into the CBC Conservation Fund for future conservation efforts throughout North and South Carolina.This also of course saves trees by reducing paper consumption.Online pub lication is in full color; there will be no more black-and-white photographs as the print publication has been limited to.The Chat has been optionally available online for several years and about a quarter of the membership has already chosen to receive it only online.To access the current issue of The Chat online, go to the current issue link under Pub lications & Checklists in the main menu.Older issues are accessible from the archives link, also under Pub lications & Checklists .Access to issues from the last two calendar years requires club membership;older issues are freely accessible to all.When a new issue is published, members will receive a notification via email, provided that we have your correct address on file.The Chat is now published online only. To read The Chat (or the Newsletter) online, you will need to create a login account. If you still haven't done this, now's the time.If creating a login account doesn't work because your email isn'trecognized, it could simply mean that you are not a member of the club.Remedy that by joining!If you are a member and your email isn't recognized,it means that either we don't have any email address for you on record,or we have an old one that you don't use any more.Please email hq@carolinabirdclub.org to update us on your correct address.You can always check the website main page to see if there is a newedition of either The Chat or the Newsletter. However, we will also sendyou an email notice of publication of either The Chat (all members) orthe Newsletter (online subscribers). Naturally, this only works if wehave your correct email address. Also, sometimes these notificationemails getfiltered to your spam folder (so check there occasionally), or even suppressed entirely by your ISP.It seems that Microsoft email services (hotmail, live, outlook) areespecially troublesome about this. To increase the probability that youwill receive our notices, it helps to create an entry for the emailaddress of our notifier in your address book.Membership directory:An online Carolina Bird Club membership directory is now available.In the past, we have published a membership directory on paper from time to time, but have not done so in ten years.The online directory has all the benefits of a paper directory, plus the benefit of always being up-to-date,and of course the benefit of being much less expensive to publish.The directory is accessible only to club members, not to the public; you must be logged in to access it.We hope that you find this new feature helpful in communicating with Club membersand a green way to reduce the amount of paper used in publishing member directories!The link to the membership directory can also be found on the Member Services page.How to access members-only content.This website has a large amount of content that is available to the public,but there are a very few things that we restrict to our club members,namely the most recent editions of our periodical publications,the Newsletter and The Chat.If you are a club member you can access member-only content by registering and using a personal login and password.When you go to open the most recent Newsletter, or a recent Chat article, you will be prompted to login. Only members can register a personal login. How do we know if you are a member?You can register a login only for an email address that we have on file.Unfortunately many of our email addresses go back pretty far and may no longer be valid,so if you find that we don't recognize your email, just let theHeadquarters Secretary, Carol Bowman ,or the webmaster, Kent Fiala , know what your current email is.For convenience, here is the link to register,and here is the link to login.The login link can also be found by hovering over the Quick Links button at the top of any page.Finding Birds in South Carolina is here!Robin Carter wrote the definitive guideFinding Birds in South Carolina,published by the University of South Carolina Press, in 1993.After the new editor of the Press decided not to reprint or revise the book,Robin requested and received return of the copyright.After Robin's death in 2008, his widow Caroline had the book digitized by Lulu.Through Caroline's generosity,the full text of the book, in searchable PDF image format, is now available for download.Although the book is 20 years old, most of the information is still useful for finding birds.How much do you know about CBC history?Attendees of the 75th anniversary Spring Meeting in Raleigh competed for the high score on a history quiz. How well can you do?The Birds of North Carolina is now hosted at carolinabirdclub.org!This site aims to provide a compendium of all of the bird species recorded in North Carolina, with general information about their distribution in the state. It is a huge project by Harry LeGrand, with assistance from Nate Swick and John Haire, and technical wizardry by Tom Howard. Much of the data that underlies the project has come from Carolina Bird Club members, as published in Briefs for the Files and General Field Notes in The Chat.The link Birds of NC in the navigation bar at the left will take you there.Band codes: MODO? RTHU? NSWO? Would you like to understand more about those four-letter bird codes?Read more about them.Accessing The Chat archives.There is a wealth of information about the birds of the Carolinas published in The Chat.We provide two ways to search for information from The Chat.We have a Chat searchable database containingall of the Briefs for the Files and Bird Records Committee reports from volumes35 79 (years 1971 2015).When was a Red-necked Stint last seen? Little Stint?Have we ever had a good year for Evening Grosbeaks?Find the answers quickly here.We also have a 45-year index to The Chat, so far covering volumes35 79, years 1971 2015.The Carolina Bird Club is a non-profit organizationwhich represents and supports the birding community in the Carolinasthrough its official website, publications, meetings, workshops, trips, and partnerships,whose mission isTo 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. Membership is open to those interested in the study and conservation of wildlife, particularly birds. Is that you? Then join the club. The Club meets three times a year (Spring, Fall, and Winter) at different locations in North or South Carolina, or occasionally in neighboring states. Contact us!

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The Carolina Bird Club is a non-profit organization that represents and supports the birding community in the Carolinas through its official website, publications, meetings, workshops, trips, and partnerships.

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