Birding South Carolina - CAEI01365

Birding South Carolina A Guide to 40 Premier Birding Sites by Jeff Mollenhauer From the Back Cover: From the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge to the Mountain Bridge Wilderness, South Carolina is a birder’s paradise. Its sandy beaches, old rice fields, cypress swamps, blackwater rivers, longleaf pine savannas, and sliver of the Blue Ridge Mountains provide habitat for more than 400 bird species—and Christmas Bird Count circles along the coast often yield some of the highest species totals in America. Birding South Carolina provides detailed descriptions of forty premier birding locations across the state. In addition to numerous migrating and breeding songbirds, shorebirds, and seabirds, a number of highly sought-after species—such as the Wood Stork, Swallow-tailed Kite, Purple Gallinule, Red-cockaded Woodpecker, and Swainson’s Warbler—are easy to find with this guide. Accurate bird-finding information for the entire state—from the Atlantic coast a