Table 5j Summary of Brunswick County, North Carolina heronries 



COLONY NUM- 

 BER AND NAME 



QUAD- 

 RANGLE 



COORDI- 

 NATES 



NESTINGp 

 SPECIES 



NUMBER 

 OF NESTS 



3^°0if' N 

 78°2if W 



ARHE 



3 - 



35°56'N 

 78°12»W 



ARHE 



5 



34°03'N 

 77''58'W 



ARHE 

 ANAN 



21 



2 



5^°o8'N 

 77°59'W 



ARHE 

 ANAN 



kk 

 1 



55°57'N 



ARHE 



16 



(1) Juniper Creek Exum 



(2) Lockwood's 

 Folly 



(3) Orton Pond 



Lockwood's Folly 



Carolina Beach 



(4) Sandhills Creek Cairolina Beach 



(5) Shallotte 



(6) Twin Lakes 



Shallotte 



Calabash 



(7) Battery Island Southport 

 (North) 



(8) Battery Island Southport 

 (South) 



73 2^' w 



33°56'N 

 78°31*w 



ARHE 



33°5^»N 



BUAL 



693 



78°01'W 



EGTH 



'f50 





HYTR 



368 





CAAL 



1^^ 





PLFA 



86 





NYNY 



75 





FLCA 



13 





EUAL 



2 



55°5^'N 



EUAL 



19^6 



78°01'W 



HYTR 



240 





EGTH 



87 





PLFA 



72 





FLCA 



72 





NYNY 



28 





BUAL 



7 





BUST 



5 





CAAL 



3 



Sources of the data contained in Table 5 are (1) Parnell, J. F,« 

 and R. F. Soots, Jr. 1979. Atlas of colonial waterbirds of North 

 Carolina estuaries. UNC Sea Grant Publication UNC-SG-78-10, Raleigh, 

 N. C, sites 7 8c 8; and (2) Soots, R. F., Jr. and J. F. Parnell. 1979. 

 Inland heronries of North Carolina. The Chat 43: 10-16, plus additional 

 study data, sites 1-6, 



2 



"Nesting Species" are represented in Table 3 by an acronym created 



from the first two letters of the species generic name coupled with the 

 first two letters of its specific epithet. The acronyms and species are 

 as follows: (see Table 2 for acronyms for sites 7 & 8) 



(1) ANAN Anhinga ajihinga Water-turkey ,. 



(2) ARHE Ardea herodias Great Blue Heron. 



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