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JANUARY 13, 2012

It’s tough being a New Jersey birder. Jersey has always gotten a bad rap in general (the smells of the turnpike, the Jersey shore, the governor), and in the world of birding, the state often seems to be symbolized by two words: Cape May. Press, 2003). published by Princeton University Press.

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MARCH 6, 2011

This cruel, cruel fate we endure in western New York torments man and beast alike. • Explore These Related Posts Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of March 2011) Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2011? Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of March 2011) Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of March 2011?

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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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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Sarah Atlas is a search-and-rescue dog handler, one of many civilian volunteers who serve with New Jersey Task Force 1. They were to be deployed to Ground Zero with 200 other members of New Jersey Task Force 1, including structural engineers and medical workers, as well as other search-and-rescue people.

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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. Geography, for example.

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Birds New Jersey Science Groups 171

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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 112

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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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