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Spring is here
March 19, 2024 -
Spring has arrived in coastal North Carolina. Trees are in full bloom, patches of Carolina Jessamine exude their a beaut...
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Short-billed Dowitchers in decline
August 07, 2023 -
This is a species that doesn’t get much attention from conservationists and are usually just checked off by birders who...
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Short-billed Dowitchers
August 03, 2023 -
Short-billed Dowitchers are migrating along the Atlantic coast right now. They departed from the boreal forest of Canada...
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Least Sandpiper
May 18, 2023 -
Least Sandpipers are the smallest of the sandpipers, measuring about 5.5 inches and weighing about 1 oz. They spend the...
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Discovering shorebirds in The Bahamas
March 02, 2023 -
It's February and I feel like I should be in The Bahamas. For years I spent several weeks each year in The Bahamas, ofte...
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Trembling with delight
June 12, 2018 -
My hands were almost trembling with delight as I held for the first time a Semipalmated Sandpiper. Seconds earlier I car...
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A morning with Shorebirds
September 21, 2017 -
They are not the most colorful and showy of the bird world. They are not the largest or the most iconic species, either.
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Sanderling
May 22, 2017 -
I was lying flat on the sand with my camera focused intently on this sanderling scurrying on the wet sand. It followed t...
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Hatching time for American Oystercatchers
June 11, 2016 -
On a sandy spit on one of my favorite beaches there is a wonderful nesting area for shorebirds, terns and Black Skimmers...
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Every Banded Bird has a Story
May 02, 2016 -
I went to a local, uninhabitedl beach this weekend to photograph Red Knots and anything else that happened to present an...
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With Blind Faith
April 16, 2016 -
I had the pleasure of attending the 13th annual Power of Flight meeting this week, held in St. Simons Island, GA. The me...
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Learning more about Piping Plovers
April 05, 2016 -
On a remote cay of sand and rock off the northern end of Andros, The Bahamas, in the newly established Joulter Cays Nati...
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Searching for Shorebirds
March 29, 2016 -
For the past 5 years I have been working in The Bahamas to map the distribution and abundance of shorebirds across the c...
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