About the Author

ELOISE F. POTTER is former director of communications at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. JAMES F. PARNELL is professor emeritus of biology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He is coauthor of Mammals of the Carolinas, Virginia, and Maryland and Freshwater Fishes of the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, both from the University of North Carolina Press. ROBERT P. TEULINGS, retired environmental engineer at the North Carolina Department of Environmental and Natural Resources, is past president of the Carolina Bird Club. RICKY DAVIS is editor for the Southern Atlantic region for North American Birds, a quarterly journal of ornithological record published by the American Birding Association.