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Overview

North Carolina, also known as “The Old North State” and “The Tarheel State” is a long state. It’s been said it stretches approximately 500 miles between its eastern and western boundaries and close to 150 miles from its northern to southern borders. It's divided into three primary areas. From the coast, you have the Eastern North Carolina portion, the Piedmont Region in the middle, and Western North Carolina with it's mountains at the western end.

If you begin your journey from the far eastern portion, you will start at the ancient, sandy, dune laden barrier islands of the Outer Banks where one of the earliest attempts at settlement by English speaking people occurred, cross navigable sounds and tributaries and through lowlands with stands of pines, across forests of hardwoods in the Piedmont, and on into the mountains of the western part of the state.

Along this journey, you will find places frequently visited by migratory flocks of birds, through areas of wetlands and forests with yet other species of birds and wildlife. Continue on through the piedmont with its river basins, and into some of the oldest, and tallest, mountains to be found in the eastern part of the United States. Across this entire expanse, expect to find many different types and species of birds and wildlife. Some here from the beginning and some once thought to be gone that are being reintroduced such as Elk and Wolves.

North Carolina offers many unique, and varied, opportunities to enjoy nature and add to your birding life list. It is truly a land of variety.

Birds

Notable Species

To do

External Links

Local Patch Report: North Carolina Birding