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Have you seen this Great Egret?
While photographing wading birds in our beautiful marshes, I noticed a Great Egret with a transmitter about the size of a small TV remote on its back and a metal band with numbers on its left leg. Have you seen this bird? I posted a couple pictures of the bird on NextDoor and received a
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SIB Member Profile: Nancy Brown & Flo Foley
It was because of the birds that Flo Foley and Nancy Brown moved to Seabrook Island four years ago after retiring from successful careers at Verizon. Flo has always loved nature and fondly remembers watching the pheasants in her backyard growing up in Jamaica Plain, MA. Her grandmother, who lived next door, had a pet
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Ask SIB: What to do if You Find a Bird with a Band?
On September 3, 2017, SIB received an email from Richard Sidebottom. “We live in Charleston and are out here often. My in-laws (the kids grandparents) are Jerry and Jenny Reves, who have had a house here since 1995. Jerry is the former Dean at MUSC and writes the wellness column in The Seabrooker. We arrived
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Gathering at a Salt Marsh
Attached is a shot I took on Monday of Roseate Spoonbills, White Ibis, and what appears to be a Snowy Egret, gathered together around a salt marsh pond near the Stono River just north of Johns Island. Submitted by Shaun Sullivan
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Introducing: Ask SIB
SIB would like to introduce a new feature called “Ask SIB.” Please email us your bird related questions along with any photos. One of our experts, including our resident ornithologist Carl Helms, will research the question and provide an answer. We will also publish on our blog to educate all our members! Below is our
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Shorebirds of Kiawah Island: The Symposium
Thursday, October 12, 20174:00pm at The Sandcastle Members of SIB are invited to register for the Take flight with us at the Kiawah Conservancy’s annual symposium. Learn about some of Kiawah’s most cherished visitors from a variety of expert speakers and see our newest film… Taking Wing! Speakers include: Thank you to the symposium and documentary
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2017 Bluebird Trail Monitoring Results
Following is the 2017 Data from the Bluebird Trail Monitoring efforts. Bluebirds: Carolina Chickadees: This year, predators (snakes and raccoons) destroyed 34 nests (nest building, eggs, young or parents) which although we had good numbers of nest attempts compared to prior years, would account for most of the drop in the number of eggs, hatched and fledged from
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The Travels of Red Knot “9CV”
What we now know about Red knot 9CV: Felicia Sanders from South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SC-DNR) recently received updated information about Red Knot 9CV. This bird was recaptured Seabrook Island on April 29, 2017. Felicia is the Shorebird Lead for SC-DNR. On June 28, 2017, she presented to Seabrook Island Birders (SIB) a
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Kiawah Conservancy presents “Taking Wings”
Shorebirds are a beautiful part of our little part of paradise. Neighboring Kiawah Island recently focused an afternoon sharing more information about these diminishing creatures. Six members of Seabrook Island Birders attended the Shorebird Symposium as presented by neighboring Kiawah Conservancy. The afternoon began with author Mary Alice Monroe giving a reading from her latest
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Are you as Smart as a Corvid???
Join Seabrook Island Birders for our 2nd Anniversary celebration at “Bird Brain Game Night”! If you haven’t done so, please RSVP now! And just to prove size of brain has nothing to do with your smarts, check out these two fascinating articles about the brain power of birds! Study Gives New Meaning to the Term