North Carolina Pelagics & Pineywoods
From: $300 CAD
A short but bird-filled run to the Southeast US, this tour is centered around two days of pelagic birding in search of seabirds like Black-capped Petrel, Great, Cory’s and Audubon’s Shearwaters, Wilson’s and Band-rumped Storm-Petrels, Long-tailed and Pomarine Jaegers, South Polar Skua, and Bridled and Arctic Terns and good chances for other rarities. Marine mammals like Short-finned Pilot Whales, Atlantic Spotted Dolphins and Bottlenose Dolphins are also regularly observed on these pelagic trips.
We then head to the Pineywoods of the coastal plain for a couple of days of birding targeting the highly endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker, as well as more common species like Brown-headed Nuthatch, Prairie and Yellow-throated Warblers and Bachman’s Sparrows. Other southeast specialties to track down include Swainson’s, Worm-eating, Kentucky and Prothonotary Warblers, Acadian Flycatchers, Blue Grosbeak and Painted Bunting. We will also take some time to bird the coast looking at shorebirds, terns and waders like Wilson’s Plover, American Oystercatcher and Least Terns.
