Birds of Sunset Beach, NC
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Surely the Town of Sunset Beach can consider itself "The Bird Capital of the World." In both the barrier island and portions of the mainland, Sunset Beach has birds, birds and still more birds. Folks come from throughout the country to see graceful wading birds in marshes, tide pools, mud flats, trees and roost sites. Many people colloquially call large birds such as egrets and herons "Shorebirds." Shorebirds actually are smaller birds such as sandpipers that dart at the edge of waves pecking for food. The birds can be divided into the following seven groups. Here is a partial list. |
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Wading
Birds
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Ducks,
Swans and Geese
Gulls,
Terns and Skimmers
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Land
Birds/Passerines Acadian Flycatcher Great Crested Flycatcher American Crow Fish Crow American Goldfinch House Finch Purple Finch Barn Swallow Northern rough-winged Swallow Tree Swallows Brown Creeper Brown Thrasher Hermit Thrush Robin Rufous-sided Towhee Blue Jay Carolina Chickadee Titmouse Brown-headed Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Dark-eyed Juncos Downy Woodpeckers Hairy Woodpecker Northern (yellow-shafted) Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Red-headed Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Blue Grosbeak Cedar Waxwing Eastern Bluebirds Indigo Bunting Painted Bunting Northern Oriole (Baltimore) Orchard Oriole Summer Tanager Chimney Swift Purple Martin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Northern Cardinal Chuck-will’s-Widow Common Nighthawk Blue-headed Vireo (or solitary) Eastern Kingbird Eastern Phoebe Eastern Wood-Pewee European Starling Golden-crowned Kinglet Kingfisher Loggerhead Shrike Mourning Dove Rock Pigeon Red-winged Blackbird Ruby-throated Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Yellow-billed Cuckoos Carolina Wren American Redstart Black and White Warbler Common Yellow-throat Warbler Northern Parula Palm Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Prothonotary Warbler Yellow warbler Yellow-rumped warbler Yellow-throated warbler Red-eyed Vireo White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Chipping Sparrow Fox Sparrow Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Seaside Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Pine Siskin |