Chapel Hill Bird Club


	Chapel Hill Bird Club
	Founded in the 1930's, the CHBC now has about 150 members. It is currently the only bird club in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina, though New Hope Audubon and Wake Audubon also have bird-related programs and activities.
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At our November 2003 meeting we voted unanimously to pay for the restoration of an original Audubon print at the North Carolina Museum of Art. By a vote of 14 to 9, Brown-headed Nuthatch won over Red-headed Woodpecker.
We also voted unanimously to make a donation to support Susan Campbell's hummingbird banding work.

2009 Chapel Hill Spring Bird Count - Saturday, May 2

Count forms: Excel | pdf - you can either e-mail or mail in the forms when done.
Assignments | Count circle map | Procedures | Tips | Other local counts and contacts
To sign up, please e-mail Will Cook, cwcook@duke.edu.
No countdown meeting is scheduled, but let me know if you would like one.

Meetings

We have monthly meetings from September through May. We meet at 7:30 pm on the fourth Monday of the month at Binkley Baptist Church, in the Lounge. Binkley is at 1712 Willow Drive in Chapel Hill, at the intersection with 15-501 near University Mall (map with meeting room pinned). Visitors welcome! Come at 7:15 for light refreshments. No meeting in December.

April 27 - Curtis Smalling, "Birding with a Purpose: Audubon's Important Bird Areas Program and You"
Curtis is the North Carolina Audubon Society’s Mountain Region Biologist. He leads the mountain component of the NC Important Bird Area (IBA) program and the Adopt-an-IBA program. In this capacity, Curtis conducts extensive breeding bird surveys on sites that have been nominated for IBA status but lack sufficient data.
For the last 3 seasons Curtis has been surveying Golden-winged Warblers in the mountains for Audubon, as part of Cornell’s Golden-winged Warbler Atlas Project. Because of Curtis’s comprehensive and thorough work, he has found significant populations, and has thus allowed these areas to be added to North Carolina’s list of IBAs.
Join us for an interesting evening about the IBA program, a global effort to identify and conserve areas that are vital to birds and biodiversity, and learn more about birding and terrific birding areas in the mountains of NC.
May 18 - Tom and Barbara Driscoll, "Birding Madagascar"

Field Trips

We have weekly Saturday morning field trips from September through April. For details, see the field trip schedule. We meet at 7:30 am at the Glen Lennox Shopping Center parking lot, on the north side of NC 54, just east of the intersection with 15-501 in Chapel Hill [map]. Trips normally end before noon. Visitors welcome!

Newsletter

Bird Counts

We conduct Christmas, spring, and fall bird counts.

Schedule and contacts - the local counts are always looking for fresh recruits!
Chapel Hill count circle map | count procedures
Summaries:
Chapel Hill Christmas Bird Counts for 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Chapel Hill Spring Bird Count 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Chatham County Fall Bird Count 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Full results in PDF format:
Christmas Bird Count: 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Spring Bird Count: 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Chatham County Fall Bird Count: 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008

Checklist

The CHBC Checklist lists all the birds ever recorded in Chatham, Durham, and Orange Counties, NC, from 1975-1/2008, with frequency designations for every week of the year. The 2005, 2002, and 1999 CHBC Checklists are still available for comparison. There's also a graphical version in zipped Microsoft Word format.

Mini-BBS

We co-sponsor the Orange County (NC) Mini-Breeding Bird Survey. Visit Haven Wiley's Mini-BBS page for full details.

Membership

Annual dues are $15 per individual or family, or $10 if you're a student. To join the club, simply fill out this membership form and mail it in.

History

A History of the Chapel Hill Bird Club by Maury Graves - article published in the Fall 1991 CHBC Bulletin.

Club Stuff

Officers, Constitution, and By-Laws of the Chapel Hill Bird Club.