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The Audubon annual Christmas Bird Count is a great excuse to brave the cold and listen to the winter woods. Between social media groups and bird identification apps, birding has never been more accessible. But as our city continues to both sprawl and fill in the remaining natural places, avian soundscapes give way to cars and the sounds of human flight.

This weekend marks the beginning of Audubon's 125th annual Christmas Bird Count. Experienced and aspiring birdwatchers alike will gather through early January to spot the smallest sparrow to the wildest of wild turkeys.

Every fall, thousands of raptors cruise above Western North Carolina on the thermals rising up from the Blue Ridge and the Brushy Mountains on their annual migration south. And every fall, a flock of dedicated volunteers camps out in a small field to count every hawk passing over a busy neighborhood in Lenoir — about 70 miles north of Charlotte as the crow, or, rather, the hawk, flies.

More than 300 migrating chimney swift birds hit the windows of the NASCAR Hall of Fame around 11 p.m. Tuesday night. Many of them have died, and it's…

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Officials with the scooter and bike rental company Lime say they thought they had the support of city leaders when they introduced their electric scooters…