[TN-Bird] Re: Robin Carter & South Carolina in winter

I had not heard the news of Robin's passing; thanks for the update.   
In the couple of years I lived in Georgetown (just down the road from  
Huntington Beach) in the early 1990s I enjoyed calling Robin up to  
tell him that he needed to make the drive down to the coast yet again  
for some goodie that had just turned up!  He would always get on the  
road the second he could get away from work.  The upper South  
Carolina coast is one of the most exciting places for birding I have  
ever lived; where else can you routinely get Swallow-tailed Kite and  
Great Cormorant on the same day list, or Red-cockaded Woodpecker and  
Common Eider?

Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN


> On Jan 27, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Kevin wrote:
>
>     The birding community lost a high ranking total ticker in late  
> 2008, Robin Carter, and I decided I would take one of my short  
> winter trips this year to coastal South Carolina and report on it  
> as a kind of dedication.  Robin had a Ph.D. in anthropology from  
> Duke, taught at LSU and Sweet Briar College, spent most of his  
> career as a computer analyst and was an active birder in South  
> Carolina.  His 1993, Finding Birds in South Carolina, some think  
> the foundation of modern birding in South Carolina, is still more  
> than useful.  The last ABA total ticks record (2007) for Robin was  
> 10,138, a rank of 10.  In recent years he was one of the most  
> active total tickers in the country.


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