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WINTER MEETING ON OUTER ETOT.’b * '

The winter meeting of the Carolina Bird Club will be held on the Outer Banks of North
Carolina, January 29-31, 1988. The meeting headquarters will be the Best Western Armada
in Nags Head. Please use the form provided in the Newsletter to make your reservations
by January 13. If the Newsletter is delayed by the Christmas mail rush, please call the
Armada at 919-441-6315 (try even if after deadline).

This meeting will be primarily a birding meeting, and Harry LeGrand is arranging field
trips. Hnrrv has indicated that the field trips will cover three major areas: ponds on

Bodie and Pea Islands, including Oregon Inlet; Cape Hatteras Point, Hatteras Inlet and
Ocracoke Island; and Lake Mattamuskeet and surrounding fields. Maps and suggestions for
birding on your own will be furnished.

On Friday evening an identification workshop will be held by David Lee. He will have
some museum specimens and slides to assist us in learning the identification of unusual
gulls on the Outer Banks. On Saturday evening we will gather after dinner and review the
day's field trips and compile a list. Sunday will be devoted to finding the fancy birds
discovered on Saturday. If you like serious birding, this is the meeting for you. It
will be devoted to birding in one of the best areas on the Atlantic coast at a season
when very rare birds are a distinct possibility. Please use the form provided to register
in advance. Registration at the meeting will begin at 3 PM, January 29 at the Armada.

REPORT OF FALL MEETING

Approximately 100 members attended the fall meeting of the Carolina Bird Club in
Charleston, SC, October 16-18, 1987. The meeting was held at the Radisson Francis Marion
Hotel in downtown Charleston with excellent weather prevailing. LIBBA WATSON was in charge
of registration (as usual), and she was assisted by MARCIA PRYOR. The Charleston Natural
History Society provided refreshments during registration on Friday afternoo. The paint-
ings of several bird artists from South Carolina were exhibited in the registration area on
Friday afternoon and again on Saturday evening. Artists represented were: STEVE DILLARD,

DANNY O' DRISCOLL, ANNE W. RICHARDSON, SIDNEY GAUTHREAUX, BRUCE DRUCKE, and LARRY SEYMOUR.

The exhibit received a very favorable response, and a similar exhibit will be planned for
future meetings.

PETE LAURIE from the South Carolina Wildlife and Marine Resources Department gave the
Friday evening lecture on the fall migration of raptors along the South Carolina coast and
also assisted in the hawk watch at Fort Johnson on Saturday. Pete's lecture was excellent
and demonstrated that hawk watching is a lot more difficult than it might seem. He showed
and told those who participated in the hawk watches on Sullivan's Island and at Fort Johnsor
on Saturday exactly what to expect. WILL POST operated his banding station at Patriot's
Point on Saturday morning so that everyone could see a netting operation in action and get
close-up photographs of some of the migrants netted during the morning. Although the hawk
migration was rather slow, the groups at Fort Johnson and Sullivan's Island saw Sharp-
shinned Hawks(27) , Northern Harriers (11), Bald Eagles (2), American Kestrels (10), Cooper's
Hawk, Peregrine Falcon, Turkey Vultures (10), Osprey and Red-tailed Hawk.

On Saturday afternoon attendees were invited to bird at Magnolia Gardens (thanks to the
efforts of BETSY VERONEE), and BRUCE KRUCKE arranged a field trip to Middleton Place. After
a wind and cheese reception the attendees enjoyed a very entertaining and informative
presentation by Dr. KEITH BILDSTEIN of the Department of Biology at Winthrop College in

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NORTH CAROLINA BREEDING BIRD ATLAS

The North Carolina State Museum is now
in its second year of statewide field work
on its breeding bird atlas. To date only
59 three-square-mile blocks have been
assigned. Block assignments are being
done in two ways. (1) A series of blocks
representing 10% of the state have been
picked for coverage to represent a random
sample of the state's breeding bird fauna.
These blocks will all be assigned and later
used for comparative studies illustrating
change, stability, comparisons with survey
results in other states, etc. (2) Other
blocks are requested by volunteers through-
out North Carolina. These can be near your
home, vacation spots, or in out-of-the-way
places you always wanted to visit. Between
these two methods of block adoption we hope
to cover at least 25% of the state.

Additionally we will take any information
on any nesting birds from any place in North
Carolina: summer yard list, the Great-

horned Owl nest you found last spring, even

The South Carolina Wildlife and Marine
Resources Department is interested in
recruiting volunteers to conduct a breed-
ing bird atlas (survey) in South Carolina
starting spring, 1988. If interested

the robin in your maple tree. Single
records such as these will help fill in
distributional gaps for many species and
will make maps of breeding distribution
more meaningful. Nest-record cards will
be distributed to CBC members to aid in the
solicitation of random records. It is hoped
that every North Carolina CBC member will
participate on some level. If this project
is to be successful, it will require the
cooperation of a large number of CBC
members.

CBC chapters are encouraged to adopt
local state parks, entire counties, or
portions of nearby National Forests.

If you are interested, contact DAVE LEE,
North Carolina State Museum of Natural
Sciences, P.0. Box 27647, Raleigh, NC
27611 for a map and list of block avail-
able in your area. The map shown below
represents only the randomly picked blocks,
but other portions of the state need
coverage too.

contact JOHN CELY, Nongame & Heritage
Trust Section, South Carolina Wildlife
and Marine Resources Department, P.0.
Box 167, Columbia, SC 29202, telephone
(803) 734-3916.

states with bird
atlas projects

SOUTH CAROLINA BREEDING BIRD ATLAS

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FALL MEETING REPORT CONTINUED...

Rock Hill, SC. Keith's lecture was on some of the work that is being done in coastal
South Carolina on the behavior and ecology of White Ibises. DENNIS FORSYTHE tallied
the bird list for the field trips with a respectable total in excess of 100 species
registered in spite of poor migration weather. On Sunday morning SID GAUTHREAUX led
another hawk watch on Sullivan's Island near Fort Moultrie while others birded on their
own.

WHITE IBIS SIGHTINGS NEEDED

Juvenile and adult white ibises have been marked with orange patagial tags with black
alpha numerics in coastal South Carolina. Tags have been placed on either wing. Reports
of marked birds, even if the alpha numeric cannot be read, will help us study movements
and distribution of this polulation. In addition to geographic location and date(s),
please include in your reports the age class of the bird, the habitat in which sighted,
and how many ibises it was seen with. Please send information to Dr. Keith L. Bildstein,
Department of Biology, Winthrop College, Rock Hill, SC 29733.

NEW PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE

Information on the following publications of
interest to CBC members has been received:

WILDLIFE MAP OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS
NATIONAL PARK, $4.95 postpaid, American
Nature Maps, PO Box 548, Glen Echo, MD
20812.

DIRECTORY TO NORTH CAROLINA'S NATURAL AREAS,

$5 postpaid, N.C. Natural Heritage Foundation,

PO Box 11105, Raleigh, NC 27604.

THE PIEDMONT NATURALIST by Bill Hilton, Jr.,

$9.95 postpaid, Hilton Pond Press, 1432
DeVinney Road, York, SC 29745

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BEST WESTERN ARMADA RESERVATION FORM
Carolina Bird Club Winter Meeting, January 29-31, 1988

NAME ADDRESS

CITY STATE ZIP

Please reserve room(s) at $35.00 per night plus tax. My check for the first night's

lodging is enclosed. I will arrive and depart .

Mail with deposit to BEST WESTERN ARMADA, PO Box 307, Nags Head, NC27959 Tel. 919-441-6315
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REGISTRATION FORM

CBC Winter Meeting, January 29-31, 1988

NAME ( S )

ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP

Enclosed is my check in the amount of $ for member registrations at $4 each and

nonmember registrations at $5 each.

Mail to CAROLINA BIRD CLUB, INC., PO Box 27647, Raleigh, NC 27611

Welcome New Members

RUTH BROWN
Columbia, SC

HENRY & ELEANOR COLTON
New Bern, NO

SAM COOPER
Wilmington, NC

MRS. CAROLYN H. FULLER
Lancaster, SC

DR. JOSEPH GOLDSTON
Florence, SC

LORRAYNE A. GRAFF
Greenville, NC

MRS. GLADYS B. HAMILTON
North Augusta, SC

CLIFTON & ANN HARKEY
Columbia, SC

ALBERT JANEK, JR.
Lugoff, SC

RICK JOHNSON
Lenoir, NC

MRS. F. LOCKE MAYS
Columbia, SC

MRS. MARTIN MEETZE
Lexington, SC

NOMINATING COMMITTEE

DON & JENNY PATTERSON
Burnsville, NC

PEGGY C. ROBINSON
Clover, SC

MATTHEW P. ROWE
Boone, NC

HARRIET SATO
New York, NY

STERLING & LINDA SOUTHERN
Cary , NC

NR/MTS B. G. WOCDHOM, JR.
Tryon, NC

CBC President, Sid Gauthreaux has announced
the appointment of the following nominating
committee: MRS. WILLIAM H. HOUGH (WNC), Chair-

person, 22 Brooks Crossing, Pisgah Forest, NC
27587-9801; DR. HARRY LeGRAND, JR. (ENC); and
GEORGE McCOY (SC). Please send your sugges-
tions for nominees to Mrs. Hough.

Officers to be elected at the spring meet-
ing are: President (incumbent eligible);

Vice-President (SC) (incumbent not eligible)
Secretary (incumbent not eligible); Treasurei
(incumbent not eligible); Members-at-Large
SC (incumbent eligible), ENC (incumbent not
eligible), WNC (incumbent eligible).

**NEW RARE-BIRD-

Heathy Walker, Chairperson of the CBC
Rare-Bird-Alert Committee, has rescued the
CBC Rare-Bird-Alert answering machine and
housed it in its new permanet quarters at
the Winghaven Foundation of Charlotte. The

PUBLICITY

Birding in the Tryon, NC area has been
geting excellent publicity in the Tryon
Daily Bulletin with regular columns by
Simon Thompson. MARTHA FREDERICK shared
a number of these articles as well as
other information on activities of the
TRYON BIRD CLUB.

ALERT NUMBER**

The new number is 704-332-BIRD (704-332-2473)
David Wright continues to man the machine,
and he is looking forward to receiving your
reports of interesting sightings.

CBC NEWSLETTER is published quarterly by Carolina
Bird Club, Inc., the ornithological society of the Carolinas,
with headquarters at Raleigh, N. C. CBC is a nonprofit
corporation, founded in 1937, with membership open
to anyone interested in birds, natural history and
conservation.

Members are encouraged to submit items of interest to
CBC Newsletter, Clyde Smith, Editor. 2615 Wells Ave
Raleigh, NC 27608.

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