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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of February 2021)

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Corey enjoyed a long weekend in Narrowsburg, New York, along the Delaware River at the New York-Pennsylvania border. He was pleased that the birdseed he brought with him attracted a variety of common woodland birds, but the highlight of the weekend was the sheer volume of Bald Eagles.

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Willow Ptarmigan in Jefferson County, New York!

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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. Well, hey, you know I saw a Bald Eagle fly over just this morning.” ” He seemed disappointed by our lack of interest.

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The Traveling Birder

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For example, not much can beat the experience of seeing a Bald Eagle scare up thousands of Snow Geese at Sacramento NWR. And that’s a recommendation from someone who has been to just one birding festival and tends to bird alone.). After years of birding, I now have a good sense of what I enjoy as a birder.

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The Birds of New Jersey: Status and Distribution – A Review by a Sometime Jersey Birder

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

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Collaborative List – January 2019

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Downsville (Delaware Co.). Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus. White-tailed Eagle – Haliaeetus albicilla. 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.

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Collaborative List – February 2019

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Downsville (Delaware Co.). Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus. White-tailed Eagle – Haliaeetus albicilla. 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.

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Collaborative List – March 2019

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Downsville (Delaware Co.). Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus. White-tailed Eagle – Haliaeetus albicilla. 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.

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