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New Jersey Bear Hunt to Continue as Planned

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The facts are clear, we have an overpopulation of black bears in New Jersey, and we must address that issue," said Martin in a press statement. "A Tags: cull new jersey bears hunting. On Monday, Nov.

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A Brant With Bling

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When I got home later that day I downloaded my photos and reported the band number to the feds , and then put the photos on the New York Birders Facebook page to ask if anyone knew what the weird little widget attached to the goose was. It was banded in Monmouth County, New Jersey, on 8 March of this year.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of October 2012)

10,000 Birds

This weekend was actually quite educational for me… I learned yet again what a fickle mistress traffic can be in a big city. Have you learned anything new lately? The best birds of my weekend were Double-crested Cormorants winging over New Jersey’s Meadowlands as I left Sunday’s Giants game.

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Ground Zero Hero

4 The Love Of Animals

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. Lautenberg.

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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

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.

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How to Be a Better Birder: A Review by an Aspiring Birder

10,000 Birds

But, before we get to the patch, Lovitch takes us to his home state of New Jersey for a “Case Study” in applying his principles and better birding skills on the road. First of all, I work in New Jersey and I’m familiar with all the places he describes. (If I loved this chapter.

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The Joy of Bird Feeding: A Book Review by a Birder who Loves Her Feeder Birds

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New York City apartments don’t allow feeders to be hung from fire escapes (though I know certain birders that skirt that rule), and it wasn’t until I had already been birding for four-and-a-half years that I obtained a small yard in central New Jersey in which I could place a feeder or two or three.

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