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GEORGIA ’S
Colonial Coast Birding Trail
CHATHAM COUNTY 10
• Fort Pulaski National Monument 8 9
• Tybee Island North Beach
• Skidaway Island State Park PHOTO: CREATIVE COMMONS – JACK WOLF PHOTO: CREATIVE COMMONS – STEVE EMMONS PHOTO: CREATIVE COMMONS – RYAN HODNETT
• Savannah-Ogeechee Canal
BRYAN COUNTY
TOP 10 GEORGIA BIRDS • Fort Morris State Historic Site American Crow Sandhill Crane The light gray and brown mourning dove is
• Fort McAllister State Historic Park
LIBERTY COUNTY
• Melon Bluff Nature Preserve
MCINTOSH COUNTY
Mourning Dove
• Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge
(Zenaida macroura)
(Corvus brachyrhynchos)
(Antigone canadensis)
• Ansley Hodges M.A.R.S.H. Project
Southeast Georgia and northern Florida are
Thought to be among our most intelligent
GLYNN COUNTY
one of the most abundant and widespread
the wintering grounds of these migratory
birds, the American crow has adapted to
• Hofwyl-Broadfield State Historic Site
birds in North America. It is also the
birds that breed in the Great Lakes region
civilization. Their distinctive caw is a familiar
• Gould’s Inlet & East Beach (SSI)
and Canada. You’ll likely hear their bugle-
leading gamebird. The species is generally
sound. The American crow is all black, with
• Jekyll Island – North End
• Jekyll Island – Causeway
per brood. Both parents incubate and care
of them flying overhead. The adults stand
the common raven, measuring between 16
• Jekyll Island – South End
for the young. Mourning doves eat almost
nearly four feet tall and have a wingspan
and 20 inches, almost half of which is tail.
CAMDEN COUNTY iridescent feathers. They are smaller than like calls before you see a V-shaped flock monogamous, with two squabs (young)
that is six feet or more.
exclusively seeds.
• Crooked River State Park
• Cumberland Island National Seashore
CHARLTON COUNTY
• Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
List Source: gbbc.birdsource.org
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