And how do you participate? Birds and are the most accessible form of wildlife for people to witness and observe and crucial to the health of North Carolina’s wild, natural places. Yet, we’ve lost one in four birds since 1970 nationwide, an estimated total of 2.9 billion. Even common species like Dark-eyed Junco (down by 168 million) and White-throated […]

Sample bag in one hand, protocol clip board in the other, I circle the building. It’s day five, and I’m happy to have no noteworthy findings like I did on day one.   Six feet from the building, I duck under branches and peek under bushes. On top of vegetation, through it. I look carefully so […]