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Wading Birds Sunset Beach, NC & Ocean Isle Beach, NC Copyright 2007 Jo O'Keefe All Rights Reserved Extensive information about birding in the Carolinas is available at http://www.carolinabirdclub.org/index.html. Note: photos on this page are categorized. New photos are added throughout the page when taken. |
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Wood
Storks resting at East Twin Lake, Sunset Beach, NC, 09/16/07
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Wood
Stork, West Lake, Sunset Beach, NC, 09/30/06
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Wood
Storks landing at West Lake, 08/05/06
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Wood
Storks at the West Lake, 08/05/06
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Wood
Storks Preening & Resting at the West Lake, 07/30/06 & 08/05/06
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Wood
Storks near ICW across from East Lake, 8/25/06
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Wood
Stork flying to Roost Site at dusk, 8/25/06
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Wood Storks
beside Sunset Beach Causeway
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Ibises
flying into the Roost Site, 8/19/06
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Ibises
Fighting at Roost Site, 08/25/06
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Ibises
at the Roost
Site, 08/07/06
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Ibis -- Juvenile,
Lake Medcalf, Sunset Beach, NC
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Juvenile
Ibises, Lake Medcalf, Sunset Beach, NC
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Great
Egrets at the Roost Site. First they were fighting with much wing flapping,
but then just looked at one another. It was dusk. 8/19/06
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Great
Egrets at the Roost Site.
09/14/06
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Great
Egret flying to Roost Site at dusk,8/25/06
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Snowy Egret
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Cattle Egrets?
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Reddish
Egret, Sunset Beach, NC, 09/09/06
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Roseate
Spoonbill at dusk at the Roost Site
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Reddish
Egrets behind Bird Island, 10/01/05
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Great Blue
Herons
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Great Blue
Heron, Sunset Beach, NC, 10/25/07
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Yellow-crowned
Night Heron
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Juvenile
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
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Little
Blue Heron, Sanibel, FL
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Green
Heron, Carolina Shores, NC
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Tricolored
Herons
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A Sea Trail Roost Site at SunsetBeach, 8/19/06 Birds include at least the following: great egrets, snowy egrets, cattle egrets, reddish egrets, great blue herons, tri-colored herons, green herons, black-crowned night herons, yellow-crowned night herons, little blue herons both juvenile and mature, ibises -- juvenile and mature, anhingas, roseate spoonbill, osprey and wood storks. Occasionally common moorhens and purple gallinules swim in the creek in front of the trees. |
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I am deeply indebted to Taylor Piephoff and Mark Vukovich for their assistance in identifying species.