Real estate is always about much more than the building and the land. Northeastern North Carolina is home to a very diverse wildlife population. The wildlife enhances life here in a way that cannot be easily described or valued in monetary terms. Come and see Osprey feeding their young, Blue Heron fishing in shallow waterways, Egret riding cows, Kildeer feigning injury to distract you from their nest...and listen to the songs of birds, cicadas, crickets. Come for the quiet, stay for the wild life. Call Mary Dockery, Realtor®, (252) 312-7766.
This is a loosely organized list of birds I have sited near where I live and work in Perquimans County, North Carolina. Scientific family and genus names are from the Audubon primarily. Help was also found at the Birdweb and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (linked where noted).
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- Genus not known
- Horned Lark (or Sky Lark)
- Pidgeon Genus
- Mourning Dove
- Wren Genus
- Carolina Wren
- Jay Genus
- Blue Jay
- American Cuckoo Genus
- Yellow Billed Cuckoo
- Duck Genus
- American Coot
- Bufflehead
- Mallard
- Ruddy
- Scamp
- Goose Genus
- Canadian
- Snow
- Swan Genus
- Tundra
- Genus not known
- American Kestral
- Peregrine Falcon
- Short-tailed Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Sea-Eagle Genus
- Bald Eagle
- Osprey Genus
- Fish Hawk or Osprey
- Buzzard Genus
- Red-Tailed Hawk (Buzzard)
- Cardinal Grosbeak Genus
- Cardinal (or Redbird)
- Bunting Genus
- Chipping Sparrow (or Chipping Bunting)
- Savannah Sparrow
- Finch Genus
- Song Sparrow (or Brown Song Finch)
- Flycatcher Genus
- Eastern Kingbird
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Skimmer Genus
- Black Skimmer
- Heron Genus
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- Little Blue Heron
- Red-Shouldered Hawk
- Sharp-Shinned Hawk
- Harrier Genus
- Northern Harrier
- Hummingbird Genus
- Ruby-throated
- Kingfisher Genus
- Belted Kingfisher
- Genus not known
- Royal Tern
- Cowbird Genus
- Brown Headed Cow Bird
- Swains. Marsh-blackbird Genus
- Red-winged Troopial or Marsh Blackbird
- Crow Blackbird Genus
- Boat-tailed grackle (or Great Crow Blackbird)
- Merganser Genus
- Hooded
- Red-breasted
- Nuthatch Genus
- White-Breasted Nuthatch
- Brown-Headed Nuthatch
- Cormorant Genus
- Double Crested Cormorant
- Pelican Genus
- Brown Pelican
- Oyster-Catcher Genus
- American Oyster-Catcher
- Sandpiper Genus
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Woodcock or Bogsucker Genus
- American Woodcock
- Tatler Genus
- Willet (or Semipalmated Snipe)
- Meadow Starling Genus
- Meadow Lark, Meadow Starling
- European Starling
- Genus Turkey-Vulture
- Turkey Buzzard
- Swains Genus
- Eastern Bluebird
- Passeriformes
Order (as classified by Birdweb)
- Palm Warbler
- Woodpecker Genus
- Downy
- Pileated
- Red-bellied
- Red-headed
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Flicker Genus (?)
- Northern (or Yellow-shafted) Flicker
