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Watch “Bird of Prey” on YouTube
This past week, SIB featured “Bird of Prey,” the multi award-winning feature-length (1 hr 30 minutes) documentary from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, as our May Movie Matinee. If you haven’t seen it, we encourage you to take time to watch this incredible story on YouTube (link below). You won’t be disappointed! The film includes…
What an Owl Knows: New Insights into the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds
Jennifer Ackerman is an award-winning science writer and speaker and the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, The Bird Way, and the forthcoming What an Owl Knows, to be available in mid June, 2023. Smithsonian Associates is offering an evening lecture via Zoom with Jennifer Ackerman on Monday, June 26, 2023…
Bird of the Week: Common Nighthawk
We recently shared information about the Chuck-will’s-widow, a bird common to Seabrook Island, more often heard than seen. A similar bird common to Seabrook Island, but generally not heard or even seen by many, is the Common Nighthawk. Both birds are in the nightjar family and breed in this area. They are often called “goatsuckers”…
SIB celebrated Global Big Day
May 13 was a perfect day to go birding and be a part of Cornell’s Global Big Day. Cornell has indicated that over 150,000 checklists were submitted worldwide in eBird for that day identifying over 7,600 species. 76,482 of those checklists were in the Lower 48 of the US showing 664 species. Seabrook Island Birders…
Healing Power of Nature
Dick Wildermann, one of the original members of the Seabrook Island Birders (SIB), recently wrote a short story about a little bird and a boy in a park, and the healing power of nature. It’s called Little Bird Park and you can read it here. About the Author: After serving as a U.S. Naval Aviator…
Sea Islands Shorebird Festival Recap
The Sea Islands Shorebird Festival was held May 11 & 12 on Kiawah and Seabrook Islands to celebrate the large number of shorebirds, including the threatened Red Knot, that use our beaches. A group of organizations interested in shorebird conservation worked to organize the festival. Representatives from Seabrook Island Birders Shorebird Steward Program, the Kiawah…
Boat-tailed Grackle released
Baby birds sometimes need human help to become independent birds in the wild. Chris Derajtys of Carolina Wildlife Center of Columbia recently contacted SIB on Instagram regarding her desires to release a rehabilitated Boat-tailed Grackle on Seabrook Island while she was visiting for Memorial Day Weekend. Joleen Ardaiolo and Judy Morr were able to witness…
Birding by Ear
I attended my very first Seabrook Island Birders activity back in January, 2022. It was a golf course event so my non-birding husband tagged along to drive the cart while I looked. While I had always loved birds and kept feeders, I’d never joined a group birding event before. And wow, was I impressed! I…
To Rescue or Not To Rescue Baby Birds
We think this blog from 2019 is worth repeating as each spring, SIB receives questions regarding what to do when a baby bird is found. Have you ever wondered whether to intervene with nature? Since we, as human beings, have moved into “nature’s” neighborhood it might be appropriate to occasionally give “nature” a helping hand. …
SIB Travels: Panama
It was over a year ago that Melanie Jerome started asking people if they wanted to join her for a birding vacation to Panama. She had heard great things about Canopy Tower. Bob and Eileen Mercer and myself (Judy Morr) thought it sounded like a good idea. We decided to go in March which is…