Table of Contents
BY LAND
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Kiawah Island’s
Voices of the Night
By Whit Gibbons
10
Discovering Kiawah
Naturally
By Richard Fishburn
12
Conversations with Bobcat
Researcher, Shane Roberts
By Cindy Perry
BY SEA
24
30
Every Other Breath
By Tony Bartelme
Right Whales: A Species
at the Crossroads
By Christine Sudell
32
Capturing
Strand-feeding Dolphins:
A Photographer’s Tale
By Scott Snider
14
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16
How to Garden
on Kiawah Island
By Joan Collar
The Bobcats of Kiawah
By Jim Jordan,
Town of Kiawah Island
Wildlife Biologist
18
20
Conservancy Events:
August–November 2016
How to Make a Legacy:
Following Cindy Neal
Story and photographs
by Shauneen Hutchinson
Background photo by Larry Price
23
The Diamondback
Terrapin: Icon of
Kiawah’s Saltmarsh
By Michael E. Dorcas, Ph.D.
40
Research on Kiawah
Alligators: An Update
Story and photographs
by Jack Kotz
46
Edisto River: Black Water
Crown Jewel
By Susan KammeraadCampbell
BY AIR
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50
Painted Bunting Research:
A Look Back
Story and photographs
by Sarah Latshaw
52
Bird Monitoring Update
By Aaron Given,Town of
Kiawah Island Assistant
Wildlife Biologist
56
The Birds! The Birds!
Story and photographs
by Tina Schell
60
Where Have All the
Fireflies Gone?
By Christopher Widuch
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Our First-ever Photograhic
Scavenger Hunt
The Legacy Continues:
Memories from Kiawah’s
Third Generation
By Frances Boyd
The beautiful photo on the cover was
captured by Sue Corcoran as Aaron
Given released a painted bunting
during one of his visits to a Kiawah
Island feeder in connection with
studying this iconic resident.