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Chapel Hill Bird Club | |
The Chapel Hill Bird Club is for everyone who loves wild birds. Whether you watch birds in your yard or travel to ends of the earth for rarities, our club offers something for you: access to like-minded people including experts who can answer your questions, interesting programs, weekly field trips, Christmas and spring bird counts, and a Facebook group. We are a friendly group and welcome all. Our members mostly come from the Research Triangle area of North Carolina: Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh, Cary, Pittsboro, and surrounding towns. | |
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. |
2024 Chapel Hill Spring Bird Count - Saturday, May 4
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.
Meetings
We have monthly meetings from September through May (except December), generally on the fourth Monday of the month at 7:30pm. We are exploring holding hybrid meetings this season—in-person meetings with a Zoom option. As the night of the meeting approaches, please look for an announcement with the Zoom meeting link on the Chapel Hill Bird Club email list and Facebook page, Carolinabirds, New Hope Audubon Meetup, and the New Hope Audubon website calendar.
How to access this meeting via zoom
Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal will walk through highlights of their new book, A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds. This is the story of what's being done to save birds in the midst of dramatic downturns in North American populations. Their presentation draws on their 25,000 miles of travel across the hemisphere researching the book, interviews with 300 people in every station in the world of birds, and scores of photos of the birds featured in these pages.
Anders and Beverly are veteran journalists who've worked for decades as reporters and editors. Beverly was a feature writer, then food editor, and finally syndicated columnist and cookbook author. Anders was an investigative reporter at The Miami Herald, then went on to lead newsrooms in Raleigh, Minneapolis, Miami and Washington. He's long been active in journalism circles, serving on the board of the Pulitzer Prizes, Society of Newspaper Editors and Journalism Funding Partners. As their work slowed down, they started following birds and photographing and writing about them for magazines and newspapers around the country. They also publish a photo-rich website, FlyingLessons.US: What We're Learning from the Birds.
Taiwan (Republic of China) is a prosperous, friendly island nation located about 100 miles from its larger neighbor on the mainland. Political issues aside, it's an easy country to visit, and the thirty-one endemic bird species were a big attraction for our long-time members David and Judy Smith, who spent almost two weeks there in 2023. Join them for a tour of Taiwan's birds and sights on May 20, our last meeting of the year.
David and Judy both worked at GlaxoSmithKline, and after retiring in 2010, they have continued to explore the birds of the world with travels abroad. Their popular presentations for our club have included birding in Costa Rica, Bhutan, Namibia, India, and New Zealand and Tasmania. They have been active members of the Chapel Hill Bird Club for a number of years with David serving as president for seven years and Judy serving as vice-president.
Past Meeting Archive
Click here for our archive of past Zoom meetings.
Field Trips
Our Saturday morning field trips are currently suspended. For details, see the field trip schedule. Trips normally end before noon. Visitors welcome!
Newsletter
Our monthly newsletter is the Bulletin. The following issues are online in PDF format:
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 | September | October | November/December
2009: January | February | March | April | May | September | October | November/December
2010: January | February | March | April | May | September | October | November/December
2011: January | February | March | April | May | September | October | November/December
2012: January | February | March | April | May | September | October | November
2013: January | February | March | April | May | September | October | November
2014: January | February | March | April | May | September | October | November
2015: January | February | March | April | May | September | October | November
2016: January | February | March | April | May | September | October | November
2017: January | February | March | April | May | September | October | November
2018: January | February | March | April | May | Fall
2019: Winter | Spring | Fall
2020-2021: Fall/Winter 2020-21
2022: Fall
2023: Fall
Facebook Group
If you'd like to interact with other local bird folks online, check out the Chapel Hill Bird Club's Facebook group.
Bird Counts
We conduct Christmas, spring, and fall bird counts.
Checklist
The CHBC Checklist lists all the birds ever recorded in Chatham, Durham, and Orange Counties, NC, from 1975-11/2011, with frequency designations for every week of the year. The 2008, 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 Mini-Breeding Bird Survey in Orange, Chatham, and Durham counties. This project was started in 1999 by Haven Wiley and is now led by Allen Hurlbert, both ornithologists at the University of North Carolina. Visit the Mini-BBS site for full details.
Membership
Annual dues are $15 per individual or family, or $10 if you're a student. To join the club, fill out this membership form and mail it in with a check. For payment by credit card via Paypal, use the button below to pay then email your membership details to Patsy Bailey at chbirdclub@gmail.com
Donations are also welcome!
Questions? Email us!
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.
Other Groups
You may wish to join the Carolina Bird Club, which covers both Carolinas, as well as New Hope Audubon or Wake Audubon, which also have bird-related programs and activities.
Field trip exploring the Morgan Creek mudflats at Jordan Lake, 8/3/2002. |
Carolina Nature | Carolinabirds info | Triangle Birder's Guide
Last update: / created 9/2/1998 cwcook@duke.edu