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NCWRC Cold Mountain Game Land Bird Survey
Objective: Inventory and monitoring of bird community on mid to high elevation game land (Cold Mountain Game Land, Haywood County, NC).
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Bird
Birds (class Aves) are winged, bipedal, endothermic (warm-blooded), vertebrate animals that lay eggs. There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the...
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- Virginia Bird Conservation Initiative ,
- Southeast Quail Study Group ,
- Atlantic Coast Joint Venture ,
- Oaks and Prairies Joint Venture
Conservation projects:
- Cherokee National Forest Fall Migrant Bird Banding ,
- Behavorial Study of the Breeding Season of the Alder Flycather, Empidonax alnorum, on Roan Mountain ,
- Natural History of the Northern Saw-Whet Owl, Aegolius acadicus, in the Southern Appalachian Mountains ,
- Avian Populations of the High Altitude Red Spruce Forest and Associated Northern Hardwoods on Unaka Mountain, Unicoi County, Tennessee
Ruffed Grouse
The Ruffed Grouse, Bonasa umbellus, is a medium-sized grouse occurring in forests from the Appalachian Mountains across Canada to Alaska. It is non-migratory.
The Ruffed Grouse is frequently referred to as the "partridge". This is technically wrong ...
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Dark-eyed Junco
The Dark-eyed Junco, Junco hyemalis, is the best-known species of the juncos, a genus of small grayish American sparrows. This bird is common across much of temperate North America and in summer ranges far into the Arctic. It is a very variable...
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
The Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Pheucticus ludovicianus, is a large seed-eating songbird in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae). It breeds in cool-temperate North America, migrating to tropical America in winter.
Adult birds are is 7-7.5 in (18-19 cm)...
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Common Raven
The Common Raven (Corvus corax), also known as the Northern Raven, is a large, all-black passerine bird in the crow family. Found across the northern hemisphere, it is the most widely distributed of all corvids. There are eight known subspecies with...
Veery
The Veery, Catharus fuscescens, is a small thrush species. It is occasionally called Willow Thrush or Wilson's Thrush. This species is 16-18 cm in length, and has the white-dark-white underwing pattern characteristic of Catharus thrushes. It is a...
Conservation projects:
- Population genetics of selected Appalachian species ,
- Hermit Thrush, Catharus guttatus, and Veery, C. fuscescens, habitat associations in a dynamic Southern Appalachian Spruce-fir Forest ,
- NCWRC Cold Mountain Game Land Bird Survey ,
- Purchase Knob MAPS Station
Golden-crowned Kinglet
The Golden-crowned Kinglet, Regulus satrapa, is a very small songbird.
Adults are olive-gray on the upperparts with white underparts, with thin bills and short tails. They have white wing bars, a black stripe through the eyes and a yellow crown...
Red-breasted Nuthatch
The Red-breasted Nuthatch, Sitta canadensis, is a small songbird.
Adults have blue-grey upperparts with reddish underparts; they have a white face with a black stripe through the eyes, a white throat, a straight grey bill and a black crown. This...
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Brown Creeper
The Brown Creeper (Certhia americana), also known as the American Tree Creeper, is a small songbird, the only North American member of the treecreeper family Certhiidae.
Adults are brown on the upperparts with light spotting, resembling a piece of...
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Blackburnian Warbler
The Blackburnian Warbler, Dendroica fusca , is a small New World warbler. They breed in eastern North America, from southern Canada, westwards to the southern Canadian Prairies, the Great Lakes region and New England, to North Carolina.
Blackburnian...
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Chestnut-sided Warbler
The Chestnut-sided Warbler (Dendroica pensylvanica) is a New World warbler. They breed in eastern North America and in southern Canada westwards to the Canadian Prairies. They also breed in the Great Lakes region and in the eastern USA.
These birds...
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Black-throated Green Warbler
The Black-throated Green Warbler, Dendroica virens, is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.
It is 12 cm long and weighs 9 g, and has an olive-green crown, a yellow face with olive markings, a thin pointed bill, white wing bars, an olive...
Black-throated Blue Warbler
The Black-throated Blue Warbler, Dendroica caerulescens, is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.
Adult males have white underparts with black throat, face and flanks; the upperparts are deep blue; immature males are similar with...
