North Carolina Trip List

Life bird

  1. Canada Goose (many locations)
  2. Mute Swan (1 at Pea Island)
  3. Wood Duck (Croatan and ARNWR Superspot)
  4. Gadwall (Pea Island)
  5. Mallard (docks)
  6. Northern Bobwhite (heard in several places, two flushed in Croatan near Bachman’s Sparrow spot)
  7. Common Loon (several offshore both days)
  8. Northern Fulmar (I missed it)
  9. Black-capped Petrel (1 brief flyby first day, 4 or so the second with much better views)
  10. Cory’s Shearwater (several both days)
  11. Greater Shearwater (many both days)
  12. Sooty Shearwater (I only saw the first day)
  13. Audubon’s Shearwater (about 10 both days, we all missed a Manx)
  14. Wilson’s Storm-Petrel (many both days, leader only Band-rumped both days as well, plus Ken had something different the second day)
  15. Northern Gannet (many both days)
  16. Brown Pelican (all over the coast)
  17. Double-crested Cormorant (along the coast)
  18. Great Blue Heron (handful ARNWR)
  19. Great Egret (many Bodie Light and Pea Island)
  20. Snowy Egret (many Bodie Light and Pea Island)
  21. Little Blue Heron (Pea Island)
  22. Tricolored Heron (Bodie Light and Pea Island)
  23. Cattle Egret (Croatan)
  24. Green Heron (many in flight around ARNWR)
  25. White Ibis (all over Manteo and the coast)
  26. Glossy Ibis (Bodie Light and Pea Island)
  27. Black Vulture (1 on the highway, me only)
  28. Turkey Vulture (all over)
  29. Osprey (all over, many nests in the harbor)
  30. Bald Eagle (1 adult perched near ARNWR)
  31. Red-tailed Hawk (a handful on the highways)
  32. Clapper Rail (calling at the boat ramp between Bodie Light and Pea Island)
  33. King Rail (ARNWR on the road to the Superspot)
  34. American Coot (Pea Island)
  35. Black-bellied Plover (somewhere on the coast, apparently I forgot to write them down)
  36. Semipalmated Plover (Bodie Light)
  37. Killdeer (all over)
  38. American Oystercatcher (flying in the harbor, seen from the boat)
  39. Greater Yellowlegs (Bodie Light)
  40. Willet (Bodie Light)
  41. Spotted Sandpiper (Pea Island, this may have been only me)
  42. Whimbrel (Bodie Light)
  43. Ruddy Turnstone (Pea Island and from the boat)
  44. Sanderling (boat ramp)
  45. Semipalmated Sandpiper (Pea Island and Bodie Light, probably a Western mixed in a Bodie Light)
  46. Dunlin (Bodie Light)
  47. Curlew Sandpiper (Bodie Light, rather unexpected, see Day 3)
  48. Short-billed Dowitcher (Bodie Light)
  49. Red-necked Phalarope (2 offshore first day)
  50. South Polar Skua (1 offshore first day)
  51. Pomarine Jaeger (several both days)
  52. Long-tailed Jaeger (couple both days)
  53. Laughing Gull (all over)
  54. Herring Gull (all over Manteo)
  55. Great Black-backed Gull (all over Manteo)
  56. Gull-billed Tern (Pea Island, I think one flew by at Bodie Light as well)
  57. Caspian Tern (from the boat, I missed)
  58. Royal Tern (Bodie Light, boat ramp, from the boat)
  59. Sandwich Tern (from the boat both days, although I only got on one the second)
  60. Common Tern (offshore both days, probably some on shore as well)
  61. Arctic Tern (offshore both days)
  62. Forster’s Tern (Pea Island)
  63. Least Tern (boat ramp, Pea Island, harbor)
  64. Bridled Tern (1 offshore second day, very distant)
  65. Black Skimmer (Bodie Light and harbor)
  66. Rock Pigeon
  67. Mourning Dove
  68. Yellow-billed Cuckoo (calling all over, excellent views in the Croatan)
  69. Barred Owl (1 ARNWR Superspot the last day)
  70. Common Nighthawk (one perched and flying at Croatan the first night, several flying at VOA the second day)
  71. Chuck-will’s Widow (calling in several places)
  72. Chimney Swift (one offshore was rather interesting)
  73. Ruby-throated Hummingbird (ARNWR)
  74. Red-headed Woodpecker (several in Croatan)
  75. Red-bellied Woodpecker (all over)
  76. Downy Woodpecker
  77. Hairy Woodpecker
  78. Red-cockaded Woodpecker (2 going to roost at Croatan the first day, probably the same 2 the second day)
  79. Northern Flicker
  80. Pileated Woodpecker (all over, I have 15 marked down and probably undercounted)
  81. Eastern Wood-Pewee (all over)
  82. Acadian Flycatcher (ARNWR Superspot)
  83. Eastern Phoebe (Roanoke/Cashie River Center)
  84. Great Crested Flycatcher (all over)
  85. Eastern Kingbird
  86. White-eyed Vireo (heard only at Croatan near Bachman’s)
  87. Blue Jay
  88. American Crow
  89. Fish Crow (calling at Bodie Light)
  90. Purple Martin (several places)
  91. Tree Swallow (I missed somehow!)
  92. Barn Swallow
  93. Carolina Chickadee
  94. Brown-headed Nuthatch (they seemed to be in every stand of pines)
  95. Carolina Wren (heard-only! all over, yet we never saw one)
  96. Marsh Wren (Bodie Light, Pea Island)
  97. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Roanoke/Cashie and a nest in Croatan)
  98. Eastern Bluebird (VOA)
  99. American Robin
  100. Gray Catbird
  101. Northern Mockingbird
  102. Brown Thrasher (Croatan and Norfolk airport)
  103. European Starling
  104. Northern Parula (Superspot)
  105. Black-throated Green Warbler (ARNWR Superspot at Milltail Rd)
  106. Yellow-throated Warbler (1 only me ARNWR Buffalo City Rd, 1 leaving Superspot seen by all)
  107. Pine Warbler (all over)
  108. Prarie Warbler (all over)
  109. Black-and-white Warbler (missed)
  110. Prothonotary Warbler (all over ARNWR, quickest transition from life bird to trash bird in a long time)
  111. Worm-eating Warbler (heard only Buffalo City)
  112. Swainson’s Warbler (singing at Superspot the last day, we tried several other places with no sign)
  113. Ovenbird (heard only Buffalo City)
  114. Kentucky Warbler (heard only Buffalo City)
  115. Common Yellowthroat (all over)
  116. Hooded Warbler (Croatan and Superspot)
  117. Yellow-breasted Chat (heard only Croatan)
  118. Summer Tanager (VOA)
  119. Eastern Towhee
  120. Bachman’s Sparrow (Croatan, singing along road in first night, much further second day)
  121. Chipping Sparrow
  122. Grasshopper Sparrow (heard only VOA, probably Henslow’s as well)
  123. Seaside Sparrow (Pea Island)
  124. Song Sparrow
  125. Northern Cardinal
  126. Blue Grosbeak (VOA)
  127. Indigo Bunting (all over)
  128. Red-winged Blackbird
  129. Eastern Meadowlark (VOA, Bodie Light, Pea Island, ARNWR)
  130. Common Grackle
  131. Boat-tailed Grackle (all over Manteo)
  132. Brown-headed Cowbird
  133. Orchard Oriole (Roanoke/Cashie)
  134. American Goldfinch
  135. House Sparrow

I also had 17 species of Odes (new ones included Rambur’s Forktail, Mantled Baskettail, Great Blue and Bar-winged Skimmers, and Carolina Saddlebags) and 10 butterflies (Palamedes Swallowtail was new).

Other stuff included American Alligator, Loggerhead Sea Turtle, Spotted Dolphins, Common Dolphins, Offshore Bottle-nosed Dolphins, Flying Fish, Cobia Fish, Dolphin Fish (Mahi-Mahi), and Hammerhead Shark (I missed the shark).