The Business Birder® Birds of the Coastal Carolinas

The Business Birder®

Birds of the Coastal Carolinas


Yep, we’re about as coastal as it gets!

GEESE, SWANS, & DUCKS

Lesser Scaup

Red-breasted Merganser

Redhead

TURKEY & QUAIL

LOONS, GREBES, & GANNET

PELICANS, CORMORANTS & ANHINGA

Anhinga

Brown Pelican

Double-crested Cormorant

WADERS

American Bittern

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Cattle Egret

Glossy Ibis

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Great Egret (In Flight)

Great Egret (Foraging)

Green Heron

Reddish Egret (Rare Late Summer/Early Fall)

Snowy Egret

Tricolored Heron

White Ibis

Wood Stork

Wood Stork Nestling

VULTURES

Black Vulture

Black & Turkey Vulture Comparison

Turkey Vulture

RAPTORS

American Kestrel

Bald Eagle

Osprey

Red-shouldered Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Swallow-tailed Kite

RAILS, MOORHEN, & CRANES

Clapper Rail

Sandhill Crane

SHOREBIRDS

American Oystercatcher

Black-bellied Plover

Greater Yellowlegs

Hudsonian Godwit (Rare Fall Migrant)

Marbled Godwit

Marbled & Hudsonian Godwit Comparison

Pectoral Sandpiper

Purple Sandpiper (Juvenile)

Red Knot

Spotted Sandpiper

Whimbrel

GULLS, TERNS, SKIMMER, & SKUAS

Black Skimmer

Caspian Tern

Gull-billed Tern

Herring Gull

Laughing Gull

Laughing Gull Plumages

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Ring-billed Gull

Royal Tern

PIGEONS & DOVES

Rock Pigeon

CUCKOOS

Black-billed Cuckoo (Rare Migration)

OWLS

Great Horned Owl

Great Horned Owl (Nestling March 2007)

NIGHTHAWKS & NIGHTJARS

SWIFTS

HUMMINGBIRDS

Broad-billed Hummingbird (Extreme Vagrant Fall/Winter)

Broad-billed Hummingbird Capture (Extreme Vagrant Fall/Winter)

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Ruby-throated Hummingbird Nestlings

Rufous Hummingbird (Rare Overwinter)

WOODPECKERS

Pileated Woodpecker

FLYCATCHERS

Ash-throated Flycatcher (Extreme Vagrant Late Fall)

Western Kingbird (Extreme Vagrant Late Fall)

Western Kingbird in Flight (Extreme Vagrant Late Fall)

SHRIKES

VIREOS

JAYS, CROWS, & RAVENS

Blue Jay

LARKS

SWALLOWS

TITMICE, CHICKADEES, & NUTHATCHES

WRENS

House Wren

KINGLETS & GNATCATCHERS

THRUSHES

Hermit Thrush

MIMIDS

Northern Mockingbird

STARLINGS

PIPITS & WAXWINGS

WARBLERS

Blackpoll Warbler

Ovenbird

Swainson's Warbler

TANAGERS

TOWHEES, SPARROWS, & JUNCOS

Chipping Sparrow

Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow

Nelson's & Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow Comparison

Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow Enjoys Cricket

Seaside Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Vesper Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)

CARDINALS & BUNTINGS

Indigo Bunting

Northern Cardinal

BLACKBIRDS & ORIOLES

Boat-tailed Grackle

Bobolink

Orchard Oriole

Red-winged Blackbird

FINCHES & HOUSE SPARROW

Pine Siskin (Rare Late Fall/Winter)

House Sparrow



Canon EOS 20D and 40D cameras with a 500 mm f4 IS USM lens were used for many telephoto images. A 1.4X extender was added for many close-ups of small birds.
Many images were also taken with Canon 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS USM and Canon 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro lenses.
For landscapes, birders, and some birds, I used a Sony Cyber-shot DSC 828 (8 mpx) digital camera with a 28-200 mm Zeiss lens.



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