10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2012

Last week a mystery bird from New Jersey rightly caused a fair bit of confusion among birders of the Garden State and beyond. New Jersey mystery sparrow. The bird was a sparrow, that much was clear, but it didn’t seem to fit any of the easily boxes the other North American sparrows can be fairly easily sorted into.

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New Jersey North Carolina Sparrows Connecticut 230

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2014

Though Corey spent most of the day on Sunday birding Sandy Hook in New Jersey, seeing 73 species of birds, including four new species for him for the year, his Best Bird of the Weekend was the Forest Park waterhole in Queens, where he spotted his first Louisiana Waterthrush of the year. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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New Jersey 2014 Louisiana Bears 177

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

I really do like the short birding outings I experience at Van Saun Park in Paramus, New Jersey, once or twice a week before I head in to the office. I’ve gotten to know where to expect to find the common birds and sometimes I spot something new for me in the park, like a Vesper Sparrow or an Eastern Bluebird.

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New Jersey Sparrows Experience Experiments 161

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2011

As someone who does not know turtles very well I have treated my turtle encounters as learning experiences, taking watching them, taking pictures, and identifying the ones I am not entirely sure of when I get back to my computer and an internet hookup. Happy turtling!

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Turtles Terrapins New Jersey Reptiles 187

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2012

Their fondness for open woods means that they often adapt well to breeding in parks and it was Van Saun Park in New Jersey’s Bergen County that I found the individual shown in this blog post. Warbling Vireos are found breeding in open deciduous woods, often riparian, across Mexico, the United States, and southern Canada.

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New Jersey United States Philadelphia Canada 194

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

There was the White Ibis in New Jersey , the Caspian Tern , the Buff-bellied Sandpiper , another White Ibis , this one in New York’s Orange County, a Bald Eagle , and a host of other birds. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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Bald Eagle New Jersey 2011 New York 167

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

Of course, I jest a bit in the above paragraph because as a sometime New Jersey birder I have birded the Delaware Bay and seen sights such as the memorable image below, in which thousands of Red Knots, Dunlins, and Short-billed Dowitchers fly up as if connected telepathically.

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Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 182

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Have you learned anything new lately? The best birds of my weekend were Double-crested Cormorants winging over New Jersey’s Meadowlands as I left Sunday’s Giants game. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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New Jersey Connecticut 2012 Game 101

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Like the best Big Year books, Adventures of a Louisiana Birder has a deeply personal layer to the bird quest, in this case experiences of danger and recovery, frailty and loss, mourning and hope. Louisiana is a magical place to bird. I think this is unique in the Big Year Narrative genre and I appreciate it.

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Ever since part of assignment at work has involved me spending time in Bayonne, New Jersey, I have found time before or after meetings to get out for short birding outings in a couple of the parks with better habitat in Bayonne. After that experience it would be difficult to find much better and, sure enough, I didn’t.

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New Jersey Sparrows Birds Experience 171

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

The economic impact of refuge visitation is broad: Recreational visitors pay for recreation through entrance fees, lodging near the refuge, and purchases from local businesses for items to pursue their recreational experience. Forsythe NWR (New Jersey): 306,000; $6.0 Blackwater NWR (Maryland): 223,000; $7.8 million; 63 jobs.

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Wildlife Maryland San Francisco Minnesota 254

Critter News

JULY 5, 2010

One hundred and twenty beagles who faced lifetimes being used in medical research experiments have been freed — just in time for the Fourth of July weekend. a site for dog lovers.

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Rescue Medical Research New Jersey Animal Sanctuary 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

The chapter “Vagrants” promotes the joys and difficulties of finding that mega-rarity on your own, giving Lovitch’s own experiences using habitat, geography, and weather to make rarity predictions that unfortunately don’t come true. First of all, I work in New Jersey and I’m familiar with all the places he describes. (If

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New Jersey Science United States Birds 242

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2015

That was the first thing we–our New Jersey Audubon group of 11 birders, led by Scott Barnes–noted as we exited the airport. Excellent 10,000 Birds posts have been written about Pico Bonito and Honduras by Corey and Carlos , so I’m going to focus on some of my most memorable experiences. There was no snow.

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Honduras Birds Costa Rica Groups 254

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. Dale Rosselet is an educator, and tour leader, associated since 1983 with New Jersey Audubon, where she is currently Vice-president for Education. I am not a stranger to the BBI system.

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Birds New Jersey Science Groups 171

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

After all, the three guides that have been published so far include New Jersey’s, written by Rick Wright ; Colorado’s, written by Ted Floyd ; and Florida’s, written by Bill Pranty.

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New York New Jersey Colorado Pennsylvania 205

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Here are some of the best experiences of my excellent trip. I eventually did get my Life Elegant Trogon during the next part of my Arizona sojourn, which was the New Jersey Audubon trip, led by Scott Barnes and Linda Mack. It is my experience that good things happen after trips and festivals end. Audubon trip ended.

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Arizona Lovebirds Phoenix New Jersey 103

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

I was on New Jersey Audubon’s Grand North Dakota birding tour this past July, driving along dirt roads through the prairies of western North Dakota. I wanted to see prairie birds and I wanted to experience a new state. I love sparrows, so seeing a feather-worn Vesper Sparrow this past July filled my heart with joy.

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North Dakota Birds Sparrows Blackbirds 144

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2012

.” Red-breasted Nuthatch at Jones Beach State Park, New York In December of last year Clare Kines wrote a post here on 10,000 Birds about the cause of the massive Snowy Owl irruption many birders were lucky enough to experience. Thank a pine cone. Or a spruce cone. Or a larch cone.

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United States Owls Atlanta New York 270

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

Currently, that includes leading “Birds and Art” tours for VENT, editing the book review section of ABA’s Birding magazine, presenting at festivals and bird clubs, plus writing maybe the most erudite birding blog around, Birding New Jersey (it’s more than New Jersey).

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North America Sparrows America United States 154

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2017

We might not get the variety of a New Jersey autumn but we do get major numbers of species that winter in South America. Check the nearest fruiting fig and you would be hard pressed not to find a few Red-eyed Vireos , Summer Tanagers , Baltimore Orioles , Swainson’s Thrushes , and a Scarlet Tanager or two.

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Costa Rica Birds Parrots Farming 166

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2017

I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. There is no experience comparable to birding a dump, and, I have to say, I have never experienced a dump like this one.

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2016 India Ducks Birds 112

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

I was glad I had my spotting scope with me and that I had practice spotting ‘Buffies’ from hours of searching sod fields in Long Island and New Jersey. This was the High Island Experience, I was told. –and, after much looking, Buff-breasted Sandpipers. Well, he did pause for his photo-op, unlike his cousins.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 220

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2012

Even still, there are believed to be only 100 pairs of Pel’s Fishing Owls in the entire delta, an area roughly comparable in size to the US state of New Jersey. Our Pel’s experience deep within the heart of the Okavango was unforgettable. What a beauty! The ginger phantom is a phantom no more. What a place.

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Owls Fish Botswana Barn Owls 252

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 12, 2012

Rock & Rawhide is a newly formed 501(c)3 organization whose primary mission is to increase the level of adoptions for dogs and cats in kill shelters by decreasing the stress these animals experience through distraction therapy. They do this by providing toys and other items. Hillman, President and Co-Founder of Rock &Rawhide.

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Shelters Animal Adoptable Cats 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2018

New York City apartments don’t allow feeders to be hung from fire escapes (though I know certain birders that skirt that rule), and it wasn’t until I had already been birding for four-and-a-half years that I obtained a small yard in central New Jersey in which I could place a feeder or two or three.

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Birds New York City Squirrels New York 179

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 26, 2014

NEW JERSEY – Animal shelters are full, they have no space, they often have no money, and they have a small amount of dedicated volunteers. Fostering is a wonderful experience. A pet needs time to decompress, to learn trust, to “get over” the shelter experience.

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Shelters Adoptable Rescue Pets 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The experience, the place, and the bird combine to make this my BBOTY. Patrick had many birds to choose from for his Best Bird of the Year but he chose a new species for him in Costa Rica, a real regional rarity: My BBOTY for 2014 goes to Hudsonian Godwit. Carlos’s BBOTY – the Nicobar Pigeon.

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 194

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Refuge has also become a place where people can experience and learn about wildlife and the places they call home, whether through self-guided discovery or by participating in one of our many educational programs. New Jersey/New York. The refuge is already open to migratory bird hunting and sport fishing.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 144

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Many years of experience have been lost. Even crazier, the Lower Hudson Christmas Bird Count, which includes parts of Bergen and Hudson Counties in New Jersey and most of Manhattan, also overlaps our count, but so far as I know no birders have ever ventured into Queens from Manhattan to lay claim to any turf.

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Birds New York City New York New Jersey 163

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The new edition adds 11 species, birds such as Zone-tailed Hawk, Short-tailed Hawk, and California Condor that are only seen in specific areas of North America. As birders in New Jersey recently found out when a Crested Caracara showed up in a farm field in the middle of suburbia, hawks just might show up anywhere!

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North America Bald Eagle Birds Eagles 231

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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2011 New York Deer Birds 155

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. The small group was a good counterpart to the large, convivial ABA Safari group of 98 birders.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 254

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Photograph of a Wild Turkey at Flatrock Brook Nature Center, in Englewood, New Jersey, by Corey. The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. I don’t believe, but this is subject to correction, that the wild and domestic Turkey were ever called by different binomials. Kiva 78(1):37–60. Reitz, Elizabeth. Thornton, E.,

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 207

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Written in the tradition of the classic Hawks in Flight , but very much a product of the experiences of its birder authors, this is a groundbreaking book that offers a new way of identifying migratory birds at sea to all of us who observe the waters of eastern North America with expectation and excitement.

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Ducks Groups Species North America 238

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2015

For the birder, this means that no matter how many Clapper Rails you have seen in the salt marshes of New Jersey, North Carolina, or Texas, that Clapper Rail that lurks in the Black Mangroves at Chomes, Costa Rica is going to be a different species. Check out recordings of Clapper Rail from North America and Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica Species South America America 219