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The Traveling Birder

10,000 Birds

I mention these trips because, along with other trips and experiences closer to home, they inform my research into my future birding travel. For example, not much can beat the experience of seeing a Bald Eagle scare up thousands of Snow Geese at Sacramento NWR. Your prior trips will inform your birding travel planning too.

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

10,000 Birds

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). Should you buy this book?