Triangle Birder's Guide

The best birding spots in the Chapel Hill-Durham-Raleigh area of North Carolina.

Here's a general map of the area, showing the 15-mile-diameter Christmas Bird Count circles for
Chapel Hill, Durham, Jordan Lake, and Raleigh (as well as Burlington, which is outside our scope).
Click on the map or select a location from the table below.

Newcomer's Guide to Triangle Birding by Ginger Travis

Where do you want to go?

Orange County

Falls Lake and Durham County

Jordan Lake and Chatham County

Raleigh lakes and Wake County

What would you like to see?

Ducks

Shorebirds

Warblers

Sparrows

Southern Specialties

Need a bird checklist?

The Triangle Area Bird Checklist is a weekly frequency list for all species reported in
Chatham, Durham, and Orange counties, NC, plus areas of Falls Lake in Granville and Wake Counties, from 1975-1/2008.
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Want to know when you'll see the most species?

Take a look at this cool graph, developed from the checklist.

Links

North Carolina birding sites on the Carolina Bird Club site.

Carolina Nature | Carolinabirds Info | Chapel Hill Bird Club

Created 9/8/1998, revised 1/19/2008 cwcook@duke.edu