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10 Most Popular Birds of South Carolina Revealed

August 5, 2020 By Bilal Imtiaz Leave a Comment

South Carolina is a state within the Southeastern USA and therefore the most eastern a part of Deep South. it’s bordered by North Carolina to the north, the Atlantic to the southeast, and southwest Georgia along with the Savannah. The top birds of South Carolina on this page is the frequency of birds throughout the year.

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  • 1 10 Famous Birds of South Carolina
    • 1.1 1.Wood Stork (Bird of South Carolina)
    • 1.2 2.Swallow-Tailed Kite
    • 1.3 3.Wilson’s Plover
    • 1.4 4.American Oystercatcher
    • 1.5 5.Red-Cockaded Woodpecker
    • 1.6 6.Acadian Flycatcher (Bird of South Carolina)
    • 1.7 7.Brown-Headed Nuthatch
    • 1.8 8.Swainson’s Warbler (Bird of South Carolina)
    • 1.9 9.Bachman’s Sparrow
    • 1.10 10.Painted Bunting

Many birds migrate or otherwise vary widely between seasons.

10 Famous Birds of South Carolina

Birds of South Carolina are famous among the birds due to their beauty. Here we will talk about the 10 most famous birds of South Carolina with their unique pictures and interesting information.

1.Wood Stork (Bird of South Carolina)

Large woodpeckers are 40 inches long. Adults are easily identified by their white bodies, bald blackheads, and prominent downward curves. Growing birds show sharp contrast with their long, wide wings and black flight feathers on their black tails. Wood stars are special feeders, which require a depth of 10 to 20 inches of water for fodder. The birds caught the fish with a small feeding strategy called “tacto location”.

wood stork Bird
wood stork Birds of South Carolina

This species feeds on the water by sweeping its open burrow. At the touch of a fish, the bill bounces off at an amazing speed. In recent years, the racially populated population of this endangered species has gradually moved north. Today nests are found in various coastal locations in the state, with the largest number being found in the ACE Basin region. Wooden storks form rockeries and usually build their nests in the tops of tall pine trees above shallow water.

2.Swallow-Tailed Kite

A beautiful Raptor measuring 23 inches in length. It is strikingly distinguished by its distinctive patterned black and white colors, including long spiny tails and long slender wings. It is an unusual, indigenous breed of South Carolina, found primarily in solid river swamps. In this habitat, breeding couples often choose the tops of tall pine trees for nesting.

Swallow-tailed kite
Swallow-tailed kite Birds of South Carolina

Winged insects, including many dragonflies, make their favorite food because there are various lizards and small snakes that are snatched away on the wings. The San Delta Wildlife Management Area near Georgetown and the Francis Marion National Forest in Charleston County are good places to find this beautiful species. Birds are found in summer, individuals usually arrive in March and leave early in the fall.

3.Wilson’s Plover

Coastal strip with a length of 7 inches. The male is dark sandy brown at the top, white at the bottom and marked with a black breast band. The female is light in color and has a brown band on her breast. Both have a long black bill, which is heavier than the other bills. The call is a musical whistle note. This species is a summer resident of barren islands and sandy shores of the inlet, returning in early March each year.

Wilson’s-plover
Wilson’s plover Birds of South Carolina

The nest is a little pressure on an exposed shell beach flat. This type of population has been declining in recent decades, partly due to nest disruption and habitat damage.

4.American Oystercatcher

Its length is 18 inches. It easily recognizes its head and neck, dark gray waist and wings, white underparts and long heavy seat bill, which is bright red orange. In flight, the birds show prominent white wing stripes and tail patches. This species is a year-round resident of the coast, a short distance from the shale banks that provide nesting, sloping and grazing areas. Cape Roman National Wildlife Refuge is home to the most important oystercatcher on the Atlantic coast.

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Hundreds of birds also live here in winter and in their nests, although there are far fewer than that based on historical records. Septuagint feeds mainly on mollusks, especially oysters. A greasy bird, with its separate bulls, attacks the open bids quickly, cutting the hijacker’s muscles, giving it easy access to food.

5.Red-Cockaded Woodpecker

This endangered 8 ½-inch-long woodpecker is best recognized by its black-and-white patterned back, black cap, and white cheek patch. The male’s small red tuft is rarely seen. Red-Cockaded Woodpecker is found throughout the year as an open-ended pine tree in the south, especially supporting long pine standing stores with sparse undertreats. Birds are found in small family groups called clans.

Red-cockaded-woodpecker
Red-cockaded woodpecker Birds of South Carolina

They are often loud-voiced, sternly skirted notes. Unlike other woods, this species digs holes in live pines, especially trees that suffer from red heart disease. These nesting trees are particularly distinctive, recognizable by the white coating of pine resin around the cavity and by the birds emerging from the wells. This sticky snake is thought to discourage snakes and other predators. Wildlife managers often use the proposed fire as a tool to maintain the species’ proper habitat.

6.Acadian Flycatcher (Bird of South Carolina)

A little Acadian Flycatcher 5 inches long. It merges with olive green above and pale olive gray on the chest and pale yellow underneath. Characteristic signs include a pale eyelid and two buffy white wing bars, otherwise it is quite unusual. The male gives a simple two-syllable song pwit-seaa through an open basin at the bottom.

Acadian flycatcher
Acadian flycatcher Birds of South Carolina

 

This species is a common inhabitant of river forests, moist forests and swamp areas throughout the state. Requires a highly developed backing for nesting in all areas of the series; usually rhododendron in mountains or iron wood (Carpinus) in piedmont. Birds appear here from April to October.

7.Brown-Headed Nuthatch

This little bird is 4 inches long. Above is the blue-gray and lower parts buffy whitewash. Its distinctive sign is its edged brown cap with a darker line than its eye. Its squeaky call resembles the sound of a child’s rubber toy. A common, characteristic inhabitant of large pine trees in the south.

Brown-headed nuthatch
Brown-headed nuthatch Birds of South Carolina

Birds typically travel in small groups, wandering upside down between the branches of a pine, looking for needle joints and cones for small arthropods. It is also a visitor to bird feeders in the backyard.

8.Swainson’s Warbler (Bird of South Carolina)

A 5-inch long, warped, pubic hairy wood warbler. A very plain looking bird; dull olive-brown and light gray at the bottom, the only distinctive area is the off-white brow strip and the rusty brown cover. A migrant species occurs in two different regions of the state, the mountain stream forests and the lower part of the coastal plain marshes and flood plains live in rhododendron bushes along the canebreaks.

Swainson’s-warbler Birds of South Carolina
Swainson’s warbler Birds of South Carolina

These are easier to hear than seen in impassable bushes. The man’s song is a series of loud slurry whistles, similar to the Louisiana water belt. The warbler of Swainson spends a lot of time on the soil for insects, eliminating leaves and debris with its long bill.

9.Bachman’s Sparrow

This rather large 6-inch sparrow is the calm of open pine trees with scattered shrubs. It is a grayish, rather ordinary bird; dark chestnut brown, dull gray in the chest and stripes above with whitish on the abdomen. Its distinctive features include a dark eye strip and a rather long round tail.

Bachman’s Sparrow
Bachman’s Sparrow Birds of South Carolina

Bachman’s sparrow is of particular importance in South Carolina, because of naturalist Dr. John Bachman. John James Audubon discovered this sparrow and named his honor sparrow as Bachman’s sparrow. The nest of this sparrow is an unusual, well-hidden structure, mainly built with grass stems.

10.Painted Bunting

These brightly colored species are 5 inches long. The male painted bunting is open, with a purplish head and neck, green back and bright red under the pieces and the stern. The female is quite different, in general, it is yellowish. This bunting is a fairly common summer resident along the coast and sometimes in messy interiors.

Painted Bunting
Painted Bunting Birds of South Carolina

It is most commonly seen on the barrier islands where birds live on the bushes and wetlands and on the edges surrounding the dune areas. Male birds typically arrive in mid-April, a week or two before the females and quickly form a territory. Coming from an exposed basin, the song is a musical series of fast song notes.

See Also: 8 Amazing Birds with Longest Lifespan

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I am a Mechanical design engineer by profession and Blogger by passion. I love to write and doing research on God`s beautiful creation i.e. Birds. The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
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