SOUTHEASTERN COAST FIELD TRIPMOREHEAD CITY / BEAUFORT AREADEPARTURE FROM BEHIND WILSON HALL, 8:00 AM, SATURDAY (APRIL 16)
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE*** NO GUARANTEES -- IN THE FIELD EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED! ***
Our targets will be spring migrants, southeastern coastal specialities, and species restricted to salt and brackish marshes, estuarine mud flats, and long-leaf pine savannas. Spring migrants might include sandpipers (and relatives), terns, and warblers. Southeastern coastal specialties include Painted Bunting (will we be too early?), Chuck-Will's-Widow (too early?), and Wilson's Plover. Species restricted to estuarine flats include plovers, sandpipers, Gull-billed Tern (and many other terns) Species restricted to salt marshes include Clapper Rail, perhaps other rails, Long-billed Marsh Wren, and Seaside Sparrow, and both species of sharp-tailed sparrows. Species restricted to long-leaf include Red-cockaded Woodpecker and Bachman's Sparrow. Federally listed endangered species include Piping Plover and Red-cockaded Woodpecker. And who knows what else!
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