10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

By the time you read this post I will still be in New York but I’ll be looking forward to leaving for the 2011 Midwest Birding Symposium in Lakeside, Ohio. Now, New Jersey jokes aside, I am not usually one to hold grudges against arbitrary political entities grafted onto geographical features.

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Ohio Cleveland United States Stud 184

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MAY 4, 2021

Louisiana is a magical place to bird. ’ What was left to write about? Chapter Two is a potpourri of stories about nemesis birds, birding by ear, birding for science, under the rubric of birding ‘for the love of it.’ ’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

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MAY 5, 2015

Dale Rosselet is an educator, and tour leader, associated since 1983 with New Jersey Audubon, where she is currently Vice-president for Education. Both are birders first and foremost, both are known in the New Jersey birding community as mentors, and it shows.

Birds 171

Birds New Jersey Science Groups 171

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JULY 21, 2014

We got them,” I say happily to the three members of my 2011 Christmas Bird Count team, strung out along the path traversing Powell’s Cove Park. I have not heard any reports of Monk Parakeets at bird feeders in New York City, or in New Jersey, where they have a colony in Edgewater, Bergen County.) The Monk Parakeets.

Chicago 204

Chicago New York City New York Illinois 204

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MAY 19, 2011

All of them were on the route of the Triathlon Hawks, our Swarovski Optik-sponsored team competing in the Carbon Footprint category of the 2011 World Series of Birding. Back in the parking lot we met up with a pair of videographers doing a video to promote tourism in New Jersey.

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New Jersey Bald Eagle Birds United States 161

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JANUARY 6, 2015

Like the two previous books in the series, the American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New Jersey by Rick Wright and the American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Colorado by Ted Floyd (photographs for all three primarily by master photographer Brian E. Thank you, little sister.

Colorado 241

Colorado Florida Birds New Jersey 241

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JULY 1, 2014

Here are three excellent but very different children’s books I enjoyed this year (two were published in 2013, one in 2011). Paige Cunningham and Janet Payne both live in the Cape May, New Jersey area and previously collaborated on a book about Cape May A to Z. Dawn Publications, March 2011. by Carol L.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 237

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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. Struik, 2011). I’m sure there are states that I missed, but you get the idea.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 254

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I think every naturalist in the United States knows the outlines of this urban tale: The pristine marshes of New Jersey are poisoned by pollution, toxic waste, pig farms, and probably every single way in which human beings can destroy the environment. This is the fable of the New Jersey Meadowlands and it is all true.

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New Jersey Legislation Mammals Pigs 152

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

But, before Jerry Liguori’s wonderful photographic guides of Hawks at a Distance (2011) and Hawks from Every Angle (2005) and before Clark and Wheeler’s classic Field Guide to Hawks of North America (2nd ed., There are probably more identification guides about raptors than there are for any other bird group.

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North America Bald Eagle Birds Eagles 228

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

I was happy to see that the Mississippi Kite map documents the kite’s incursion into the Northeast, including two notable nesting sites in New Jersey and New Hampshire. First up are the two Jerry Liguori books, Hawks From Every Angle (PUP, 2005) and Hawks At A Distance (PUP, 2011) and Hawks in Flight, 2nd ed.

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North America Birds Mississippi Bald Eagle 195

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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. A Garganey showed up in Ohio in 2011 and I had a chance to chase it and I didn’t. ” But, of course, I am.

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2016 India Ducks Birds 111

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Forty-seven sites are described here, ranging from interior sites like Whitefish Point, Michigan and Conejohela Flats, Pennsylvania to coastal sites like the Cape May Avalon seawatch in New Jersey and Brier Island, Nova Scotia. Some of these are well-established migration counting points; others have been included for their potential.

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Ducks Groups Species North America 236

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

On my visit, which was on Sunday morning, 23 October 2011, the most common birds were yellow-rumps, robins, and flickers. birders on the dike at Higbee Beach before sunrise Call notes, flight style, shape of tail, length of wing, and overall jizz are all buzzing through the heads of the birders on the dike as the birds blow by.

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Bald Eagle Woodpeckers Blackbirds 2011 196

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

I am a city girl and until I became a birder my contact with hunting was limited to occasionally seeing dead deer on the tops of cars in upstate New York. So–not a fan of hunting. And, neither are most of our 10,000 Birds writers. Authors: Richard Crossley is known as co-author of The Shorebird Guide (with Michael O’Brien and Kevin T.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 121