Deer v. Cars
Animal Ethics
FEBRUARY 15, 2008
New Jersey is thinning its deer herd. How many of you oppose this? What would you do instead?
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Wild Turkeys Causing Car Accidents
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2011
In New Jersey, police shot a Wild Turkey that was causing a few fender benders. These are just quick turkey car accident links I’ve found on my usual birding news feeds, but I’m sure many more are out there. A woman in Ohio had a turkey crash through her windshield. Turkey hunters…not so much.
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Animal Ethics
MAY 11, 2008
It tends to be the Jersey natives who drive too fast and refuse to build fences in their backyards who view wildlife as the enemy. You also note that “counting deer is an imprecise science” and that an aerial survey is expensive, “but some believe it yields the most accurate count.” The fault does not lie with the deer.
Best Bird of the Weekend (First of March 2011)
10,000 Birds
MARCH 6, 2011
Go win a copy and you might get it before I get off my keister and write my review… Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Seriously, that really happens in this excellent video of a Great Horned Owl scavenging a deer carcass by Kirk Mona. Wicked, right?
The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Photograph of a Wild Turkey at Flatrock Brook Nature Center, in Englewood, New Jersey, by Corey. First, the Mayflower included not just hapless Puritans who knew nothing of the New World, but it also included people who had been there before acting as pilots and guides for the Puritans.
A New Year Begins! But First–A Celebration of My 2018 Top Ten Birds
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2019
Evening Grosbeaks are large, stunning birds, especially the males, with their distinct plumage and massive bills; I haven’t been fortunate enough to see any of the Evening Grosbeaks that have made their way south to NYC and New Jersey (yet), so I’m very happy I was able to spend time with these beauties this summer. Another sparrow!
The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
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.
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