Chapel Hill Bird Club

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.

2008 Chatham Co. Fall Migration Count - Sat., Sept. 20

Forms: MS Word | pdf - you can either e-mail or mail in the forms when done.
Assignments | Procedures | Tips | Other local counts and contacts
To sign up, please e-mail Will Cook, cwcook@duke.edu.

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. Visitors welcome! Come at 7:15 for light refreshments. No meeting in December. Click here for a map.

• September 22 - Birding Ecuador. Will Cook, Derb Carter, and Kent Fiala will tell tales and show photos and videos of their three week tour of northern Ecuador in November-December 2007. Travelling from Wild Sumaco to Tandayapa and Rio Canande, we'll hit the prime foothills hotspots east and west of Quito. We'll see a sampling of the well over 500 bird species total on the trip (61 hummingbirds!) from the improbably-named Band-tailed Barbthroat and the petite Booted Racket-tail to the magnificent Sword-billed Hummingbird. Plus 'Maria' the Giant Antpitta in action! And of course, some of the fascinating butterflies, mammals, flowers, and other wondrous things found along the way.

  Refreshments are at 7:15 pm; the meeting starts at 7:30 pm at Binkley Baptist Church on Willow Drive (1712 Willow Drive) at 15/501 in Chapel Hill, near University Mall.

• October 27 - Birding Newfoundland by Tom Krakauer
• November 24 - tba
• December - no meeting

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. Trips normally end before noon. Visitors welcome! Click here for a map.

Newsletter
Our monthly newsletter is the Bulletin. If you would like a free hard copy of the latest newsletter, send Karen Piplani your name and address. The following issues are online in PDF format. You need Adobe Acrobat Reader (free) to read PDF files.
1999: January | February | March | April | May | September | October | November
2000: January | February | March | April | May | September | October | November | December
2001: January | February | March | April | May | August | September | October | November | December
2002: January | February | March | April | May | September | October | November/December
2003: January | February | March | April | May | September | October | November/December
2004: January | February | March | April | May | September | October | November/December
2005: January | February | March | April | May | June | September | October | November/December
2006: January | February | March | April | May | September | October | November/December
2007: January | February | March | April | May | September | October | November/December
2008: January | February | March | April | May

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
  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
• Full results in PDF format:
  Christmas Bird Count: 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006
  Spring Bird Count: 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007
  Chatham County Fall Bird Count: 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007

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.

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

Field trip exploring the Morgan Creek mudflats at Jordan Lake, 8/3/2002.

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Created 9/2/1998, last revised 8/25/2008 cwcook@duke.edu