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Last Update:
08/19/2008

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
    ~ Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays

CALENDAR

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Sat, Sept 6 Field Trip Bethabara Park, Winston-Salem
RSVP* to Mary Woodrow, 316-1339, mandrwoodrow@aol.com
Thu, Sep 11 Meeting “Living on the Edge: Nesting Birds of Coastal North Carolina.”
Speaker: Sidney Maddock
Sat, Sept 20 Event Big Sweep Stream Cleanup at Audubon Natural Area
RSVP* to Jack Jezorek, 272-6664, suejackj@bellsouth.net
Sat, Sept 20 Field Trip Pilot Mountain with Piedmont Bird Club (PBC) to view hawk migration
RSVP* to Gregg Morris, 883-3270, gregg.morris@highpointnc.gov
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

All Thursday evening programs are from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. in the Community Room at the Kathleen Clay Edwards Family Branch Library at Price Park off Hobbs Road. Map to KCE Library
* RSVP - Contact the field trip leader, in the two weeks prior to the event, if you would like to participate.

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ARTICLES

Piedmont Conservation Council Needs Your Opinion

Chimney Swift Towers

Haw River State Park

Rain Kiss, a poem
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LIVING ON THE EDGE: BIRDS ON THE OUTER BANKS


September 11, 2007, KCE Library, 7:00 p.m.

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2.25 million visitors flock to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore every year.  Unfortunately, fewer and fewer of these visitors are birds, particularly the birds accustomed to nesting on the dunes and the beach strand.  In our love of the beach, we are pushing nesting birds to the edge.  Just twenty years ago hundreds of pairs of Black Skimmers, Gull-billed Terns, Common Terns, and Piping Plovers nested here.  Today, none of these species has more than 13 nesting pairs; but, if we preserve and protect the habitat, they will return.       

Sidney Maddock, who manages the Audubon Sanctuary Islands near Ocracoke, and who  closely monitors bird conservation on our beaches, will present "Living on the Edge: Birds on the Outer Banks" at the September 11th meeting of the T. Gilbert Pearson Audubon Society.  Come join us at the Kathleen Clay Edwards Library at 7pm to learn more about these beautiful birds, the work Audubon has done to help protect them and the current political fight over access to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. 

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