Community Science

— This banded Piping Plover is part of the endangered Great Lakes population, which consists of around 70 breeding pairs and their offspring. During 2014, it wintered at Rich Inlet.

— Meet a Least Tern banded as an adult on Cape Lookout National Seashore in the summer of 2010. It later reappeared on the south end of Wrightsville Beach.

— A banded Sandwich Tern was spotted at the south end of Wrightsville Beach. Learn how banding birds like this supports bird conservation science .

— We’re asking you to help search for pink-flagged Piping Plovers.

— Learn how local birders revived the annual tradition of the Christmas Bird Count in Yancey County.