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Ask SIB: Where Can we Find LOTS of Shorebirds in March?
Answer: During March and April, both Seabrook Island and Kiawah Island offer great opportunities to see shorebirds. Both islands are private, and people cannot just visit any time they want. Someone from either of those islands needs to create a pass for the visitor. Beachwalker Park is a Charleston County Park with a parking fee,
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SIB “Bird of the week “ – Northern Harrier
Formerly known as the Marsh Hawk, the Northern Harriers are slender, medium-sized raptors with long, fairly broad wings and a long, rounded tail. They have a flat, owl-like face and a small, sharply hooked bill. Harriers often fly with their wings held in a dihedral, or V-shape above the horizontal. They are a little bit
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SIB Travels: Cruising for Life Birds
It was time to set sail again, and for us, January and February are perfect months to take a cruise. In winter the destinations aren’t as crowded, we get to escape the cold weather in favor of warm, tropical breezes, and the overall pace on the ship is laid back and relaxed. Very few families with
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Birds love our water
Many of us live on a barrier island because we like being near water. Some of us even live by the beach or a lagoon. Birds also like the water. We can help birds by adding a birdbath to our yard. Some top reasons to add a birdbath to your yard are: A primary benefit of birdbaths to us
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SIB Travels: More Cruising for Life Birds – Panama, Cartegena, and Bonaire
With Jamaica and Costa Rica now behind us, Panama was our next port-of-call, and the one I was most anticipating. We went to the Panama Canal a few years ago, which is pretty incredible and worth a visit, but knew we wanted to focus on birding and nature this time around. With no organized birding tours
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Colonial Nesters on and near Seabrook Island
The article below has been updated since its original post in 2017. Current SIB members may experience different colony nests than reported here. Recently we visited the rookery seen on Ocean Winds golf course or at a recent Backyard Birding. That caused us to ask which birds nest in “rookeries” here on Seabrook Island. Quite
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Can birds signal your romantic future?
Happy Valentines Day to (bird) lovers everywhere! Doves, cardinals and lovebirds (a type of parrot) come to mind when people think of birds and love together. But ornithomancy is a practice dating to ancient times when Greeks and Romans used it to interpret their bird sightings and get a glimpse into the future. According to ornithomancy, single
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Why I am a SI Shorebird Steward (and why I think you would enjoy it, too)
Like most of us, I spent much of my 40 year professional career inside, behind a computer screen. Retiring to Seabrook Island in 2020 was an epiphany for me and my husband, Doug. There is a whole world out here! There are no lions and tigers and bears, but plenty of alligators, dolphins, and, of
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SIB “Bird of the Week” – Western Cattle Egret
How did I miss the memo!?! The Cattle Egret that I’ve enjoyed observing, often in fields feeding near livestock and rarely ever near water like most other egrets and herons, got a name change! It wasn’t until I read about Judy Morr’s travels to Florida a few weeks ago that I even realized a change had happened!
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What’s the Deal with the Capitalizion of Bird Names?
Have you ever noticed when you read the articles from Seabrook Island Birders (SIB), the common names of birds are capitalized? The same is true with nearly every bird book, bird periodical or birding website. However, if you read articles in non-birding publications including print media, these same common names are not capitalized, unless a