10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2015

Corey is still enjoying a long Memorial Day weekend with his family in Delaware but wanted to share that his Best Bird of the Weekend thus far was a Chuck-Will’s-Widow calling in the predawn darkness at Cape Henlopen State Park. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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(Inexplicably, eBird does not consider Puerto Rico part of the United States, but if it were properly included , it would do well, with 107 species.).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2018

Bombay Hook NWR (Delaware). Anahuac NWR (Texas). Aransas NWR (Texas). Bear River MBR (Utah). Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR (Washington). Bosque del Apache NWR (New Mexico). Chinteague NWR (Virginia). Desert NWR (Nevada). Forsythe NWR (New Jersey). Harris Neck NWR (Georgia). Horicon NWR (Wisconsin).

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MAY 16, 2017

They breed only in salt marshes along the Atlantic coast from Delaware to Maine, and their habitat keeps getting destroyed, developed, and fragmented. Their population is currently only 53,000 individuals and declining at a staggering 9 percent a year, a rate that will make them extinct within 50 years.

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JANUARY 30, 2015

After Nadeem attends the NWRA conference in Princeton, NJ, he will go to Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research in Delaware; The Wildlife Center of Virginia ; New Jersey’s Mercer County Wildlife Center ; and The Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts. What’s left? The indiegogo campaign needs donations. .

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

A web-based initiative www.bandedbirds.org has been developed by partners in New Jersey and Delaware (USA) to incorporate shorebird sightings (or resightings) made by the public into a centralized database. To start, they entered nearly 72,000 shorebird banding records and 84,000 resighting records from established research programs.

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MAY 20, 2023

Here they are, listed in no particular order: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge (New Mexico) Magee Marsh Wildlife Area/Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge (Ohio) Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge (Texas) Everglades National Park (Florida) Point Reyes National Seashore (California) Cape May National Wildlife Refuge (New Jersey) Santa Ana National (..)

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

If you live north of the San Francisco Bay area in California like I do, or north of Delaware on the east coast, you would most likely be looking at a Greater Yellowlegs. I must say, however, that geography can play a role also. Take a look at these range maps for the two species.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

The Red Knot’s lengthy paragraph is totally focused on the reasons for its population decline and why it’s important to conserve migration stopover sites like Delaware Bay. The Snowy Owl account focuses on irruptions.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Also providing advice were Dr. Jamie Lindstrom of the VCA Northview Animal Hospital in Pittsburgh, and Dr. Erica Miller, formerly of Tri-State Bird Rescue in Delaware. Wildlife centers depend heavily on the advice of veterinarians who work with wildlife, and who often exchange treatments and experiences with each other.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2014

We crossed the Delaware Water Gap, the Endless Mountains, the Southern Tier of New York, and then, as I pushed my Ford Focus to its limits, we crossed the law and the law won. I picked Donna up at 4 AM on Sunday, Steve at 4:20 AM, and we were heading across the Whitestone Bridge out of Queens by 4:30 AM.

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Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2008

Efforts for such a ballot initiative in Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire and Vermont have failed but efforts are currently underway to establish similar legislation in Colorado and Washington. Throughout UEP’s annual meeting speakers cautioned that Prop 2’s passage would be a major blow to the industry.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 1, 2010

Be aware of areas where Lyme disease (a common tick-borne illness) is prevalent: the eastern coastal states and the north central states, especially parts of Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Wisconsin and northern California. Ticks must be removed properly. to try to remove the tick.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Colorado or Delaware? For me, for birding: Delaware. I’d like to see it involve at least a component of online voting, so I’ll be sure to let you know when and where that happens. That way, you can stuff the Green Heron ’s ballot box! That said, Liz and I are really grooving on Colorado these days.

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APRIL 12, 2011

Though it sits on the Delaware River and residents have great views of Philadelphia when one is in Camden one is usually paying more attention to one’s immediate surroundings to enjoy the view.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

First he drove to Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware to twitch a possible Little Egret that had showed up. At that point, the tide was changing to high tide in Delaware so he wisely decided to chase the Little Egret , again. The predictable Kelp Gull never showed up in the four hours he spent at Sandgates.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

He moved from Delaware to Colorado and then like a week later this bird shows up in Denver. This Ross’s Gull that showed up last winter is but one of many examples of some of the crazy birds that show up here. I joked with my good friend, Jeff Gordon (ABA President ), of his luck. Most birders go a lifetime without seeing this species.

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JUNE 17, 2015

Due to Prime Hook’s strategic location on the Delaware Bay, the refuge has national conservation significance as a designated RAMSAR Wetland of International Significance Site (1999), American Bird Conservancy-Important Bird Area (2000), and a Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network site (1986).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

My current criteria for a dedicated birding trip are having a good probability of seeing several new birds or seeing a birding spectacle ( e.g. , Red Knots and other shorebirds feasting on horseshoe crab eggs in Delaware Bay). I particularly enjoy birding national wildlife refuges, so I try to include at least one on each trip.

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JULY 3, 2020

on The Albany Academy by architect Marcus T.

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JUNE 20, 2011

On a fateful day less than two years ago, Andy, me, and my wife Anita were birding southern Delaware. Everybody with a drug addiction had an enabler, and my rather recent love of bird photography is no different. Andy Curtis is a buddy of mine, and he was into photography before me. Andy was clicking off a few snaps with his Nikon D80.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

He not only grew up in the Philly area, he’s an active member of the Delaware Valley Ornithology Club, and has a birding career–former tour leader, current Events Coordinator for the ABA–focused on educating birders of all different levels. And, George Armistead is the perfect author for this title.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

and bad ways (overharvesting of horseshoe crabs resulting in the drastic decline of Red Knots in Delaware Bay). Development, conservation, and climate change have affected bird distribution in good ways (a record 282 Bald Eagles found on the January 2009 official count!)

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JULY 12, 2022

For example, in May, I was on the Maryland shore for a wedding and submitted several checklists for Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. I have found Trip Reports a useful way to organize checklists from birding trips.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

Bombay Hook NWR (Delaware); 166,000; $5.3 Bear River MBR (Utah): 158,000 visits generating $4.1 million in economic activity and 8 jobs. Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR (Washington): 289,000; $15.1 million; 111 jobs. Blackwater NWR (Maryland): 223,000; $7.8 million; 63 jobs. million; 48 jobs. Forsythe NWR (New Jersey): 306,000; $6.0

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2018

On eBird profile pages, size matters: tiny Delaware is barely noticeable whereas Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri are conspicuous. Other states, such as North Dakota and Arkansas, were also gray, but those seemed less troublesome, since I have never visited either state.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Many of the states with more than 100 species are home to contributors and/or have destination birding locations and/or are popular places generally. Some are all three ( e.g. , New York, California, and Florida).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2016

I called Dr. Erica Miller from Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research in Delaware for some advice. This began the rehabilitation of the first recorded sighting of a White-tailed Tropicbird in the state of Connecticut! After the bird had been stabilized, I needed to decide what my next step was.

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Connecticut Florida Wildlife Rehabilitation Delaware 164

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MARCH 18, 2022

The design is a reproduction of an eighteenth-century gin bottle found near Gibbstown, New Jersey, just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia. St Peter’s Brewery is also noted for the unusual flask-shaped glass bottle in which it packages all its bottled beers (though the brewery also releases casks).

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FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Downsville (Delaware Co.). Roxanne’s house: Palmetto Bay, FL. 21 Jan 2019. Brown Quail – Synoicus ypsilophorus. Western Australia. 05 Jan 2019. Ring-necked Pheasant – Phasianus colchicus. 06 Jan 2019. Wild Turkey – Meleagris gallopavo. Aiden Hill Road. 03 Jan 2019. Little Grebe – Tachybaptus ruficollis.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2012

There are some exceptional images here, such as the full-page Green-winged Teal drake, the complexity of its coloring reflected in the pond water, and the shorebirds of the Delaware Bay, flying in Escher-like patterns of brown, black, and white.

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MARCH 2, 2019

Downsville (Delaware Co.). Hume’s Pheasant – Syrmaticus humiae. Doi Pha Hom Pok NP–Doi Lang (western slope), AKA Doi San Ju. 20 Feb 2019. Ring-necked Pheasant – Phasianus colchicus. 06 Jan 2019. Wild Turkey – Meleagris gallopavo. Aiden Hill Road. 03 Jan 2019. Greater Flamingo – Phoenicopterus roseus.

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APRIL 6, 2019

Downsville (Delaware Co.). Hume’s Pheasant – Syrmaticus humiae. Doi Pha Hom Pok NP–Doi Lang (western slope), AKA Doi San Ju. 20 Feb 2019. Ring-necked Pheasant – Phasianus colchicus. 06 Jan 2019. Wild Turkey – Meleagris gallopavo. Aiden Hill Road. 03 Jan 2019. Greater Flamingo – Phoenicopterus roseus.

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MAY 4, 2019

Downsville (Delaware Co.). Rye Ridge Shopping Center, Rye Brook US-NY (41.0031,-73.6849). 05 Jan 2019. New Zealand Pigeon – Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae. Upper Hutt. 06 Jan 2019. Ring-necked Pheasant – Phasianus colchicus. 06 Jan 2019. Harlequin Duck – Histrionicus histrionicus. Point Lookout–Town Park. 06 Jan 2019.

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JUNE 1, 2019

Downsville (Delaware Co.). Point Lookout–Town Park. 06 Jan 2019. Horned Grebe – Podiceps auritus. Point Lookout–Town Park. 06 Jan 2019. Ring-necked Pheasant – Phasianus colchicus. 06 Jan 2019. New Zealand Pigeon – Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae. Upper Hutt. 06 Jan 2019. 05 Jan 2019.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

This is a nighthawk in Delaware but, you know what? In a fairly birdless year that involved no travel outside of northeastern North America, Mike’s Best Bird of the Year had to be the Common Nighthawk observed randomly soaring over the Bronx. Those goatsuckers are far too rare over cities these days. Close enough… What about me?

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AUGUST 14, 2018

Bombay Hook NWR (Delaware): 95.2%. In other words, virtually all of Santa Ana NWR was purchased with MBCF money. Top 25 NWRs for birding and percent of acres purchased with MBCF funds: Anahuac NWR (Texas): 80.0%. Aransas NWR (Texas): 42.7%. Bear River MBR (Utah): 36.9%. Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR (Washington): 56.3%.

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