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Test Your Knowledge of Passerines – The Answers
We began our “Bird of the Week” series in March and we hope you have been able to learn a few things about our feathered friends. This week we hope you enjoyed a little quiz to test your knowledge. Below is a list of passerines which we have already profiled – oops – along with one…
Seabrook Island Birders Thanks Its Members
We gobbled till we wobbled at the first annual Seabrook Island Birders (SIB) Let’s Talk Turkey & Eat Some Too event on Wednesday November 16, 2016. What a fabulous evening we all had! Over 65 people enjoyed turkey, gravy, ham and wine supplied by the SIB team and also loved the many appetizers, sides and…
2016 Bluebird Monitoring Results
Attached are the final results of the 2016 Eastern Bluebird Monitoring Session. You will note I have added lines for overall comparison with 2015 and 2014. Fledged Eastern Bluebirds were up 100 over the 2015 monitoring session and Carolina Chickadees up 2 while boxes with no activity were down to 3, one of which was temporarily…
Getting Ready to Take Flight
The Seabrook Island Birders (SIB) Organizational Committee has made considerable progress during the past two months, including the following: *The group’s official name will be the ” Seabrook Island Birders (SIB). *Membership will be available to all Seabrook Island property owners and their renters. *The purpose of SIB is to provide Seabrook Island residents, renters, and guests, who have a…
Seabrook Island Birders (SIB) – Getting Ready to Take Flight
(as published in The Seabrooker, January 2016) Do you have a passion for birds and/or an interest in learning more about the incredible variety of birds that inhabit Seabrook Island throughout the year? If so, there is a new organization being created just for you. It’s the Seabrook Island Birders (SIB). You don’t need to be…
SIB First Quarterly Meeting Minutes
Minutes of the First Quarterly Meeting of the Seabrook Island BirdersJanuary 20, 2016 at the Lake House This was the first meeting of those who had expressed an interest in birding on Seabrook Island. Originally 78 persons had signed up and nine (Charley Moore, Nancy Brown, Flo Foley, Marcia Hider, George Haskins, Donna Lawrence, Lyn…
Create a Logo for SIB
Hello Seabrook Island Birders (SIB) We hope you enjoyed our first meeting on January 20th, are finding the SIB website (Seabrookislandbirders.org) and blog informative and are following SIB news and activities on the SIB Facebook page. As you are all aware, a logo is extremely important to any organization or business and we would like to ask our members…
Recent Sightings of Interest
During the month of June, in addition to the previously reported Roseate Spoonbills, there have been some interesting bird sightings on Seabrook we want to share with you. Andy Allen reported seeing a Swallow-tailed Kite in early June over the Cassique Golf Course on Seabrook/Kiawah Islands. Nancy Brown and Flo Foley have seen the Mississippi Kites…
Ask SIB – Why do so many birds have white bellies?
If you pay close attention, you will see this general color pattern in not just birds, but in a wide array of species, in everything from insects, fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals. There must be an evolutionary advantage! Back in 1896, Abbott H. Thayer wrote a paper describing the dark top, light underneath as a…