We have Black Skimmer chicks that can be seen from outside the posting!
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| Look carefully in the top picture and find the Black Skimmer chick camouflaged inside the posting. |
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| photos by Jeff Hall |
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| photos by Jeff Hall |
While our NC Audubon biologist Lindsay Addison was on the beach last week she noticed that four Black Skimmers cooling by the water had metal leg bands. She was able to use her scope to read the silver engraved numbers, recorded the numbers and looked up the specific band numbers on the national bird band database. GOOD NEWS: The Skimmers were banded as chicks at our south end nesting colony on Wrightsville Beach in 2013, 2014 and 2015!!! They are our birds and have returned to our beach to nest!!!
We currently have approximately 160 nesting pairs = at least 320 Black Skimmers at the South End.
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| photos by Jeff Hall |
This is pretty nice. Watching birds in the beach is cool and relaxing.
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