10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Red Knots have already lost more than 80 percent of their coastal habitat in Florida, New Jersey, and New York. The ability of knots to successfully raise their chicks is very sensitive to snow conditions, the availability of insects as food, and the presence of predators, all of which are affected by climate change.

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Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

This explains why, if you are looking at the list of plates in the Eastern guide, the “South Florida” subspecies of Red-shouldered Hawk and the “Florida” subspecies of Red-tailed Hawk are near the end of the guide and not with the other plates in the Species Accounts, and why Aplomado Falcon is the very last species in the Western guide.

North America 185

North America Birds Mississippi Bald Eagle 185

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2015

Like the two previous books in the series, the American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New Jersey by Rick Wright and the American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Colorado by Ted Floyd (photographs for all three primarily by master photographer Brian E.

Colorado 228

Colorado Florida Birds New Jersey 228

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2017

We might not get the variety of a New Jersey autumn but we do get major numbers of species that winter in South America. Owls : From my cabin, during less than an hour, I heard Crested, Spectacled, Mottled, and Central American Pygmy owls as well as Great Potoo and Collared Forest-Falcon.

Costa Rica 150

Costa Rica Birds Parrots Farming 150

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

Paige Cunningham and Janet Payne both live in the Cape May, New Jersey area and previously collaborated on a book about Cape May A to Z. They start out in New York City, climbing a skyscraper to see a Peregrine Falcon, the world’s fastest-moving bird, diving at almost 200 miles an hour after a pigeon.

Puerto Rico 227

Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 227

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

As birders in New Jersey recently found out when a Crested Caracara showed up in a farm field in the middle of suburbia, hawks just might show up anywhere! And, what books are you using to help identify our buteos, accipiters, falcons, and eagles? Yes, I saw the bird and it was incredible.) It’s Hawk Watching Season!

North America 215

North America Bald Eagle Birds Eagles 215

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

It was my second field guide, and I quickly gave it that worn look I imagined all “real” birder’s field guides had by dropping it into the creek at Allaire State Park in New Jersey (by accident!). And, that falcons are about as far away from hawks as a bird family could get. This means that loons are no longer first!

North America 152

North America 2003 Birds America 152

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

This spectacular montane vulture reminds me more of a giant falcon as it cleaves the air on long wings. I had a couple of pretty good twitches this year too, birds like Willow Ptarmigan and Cassin’s Kingbird in New York and European Golden-Plover in New Jersey. My choice is the Lammergeier or Bearded Vulture.

2014 183

2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 183

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

There’s Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania, of course, and that little known Cape May place in New Jersey, not to mention others like Fort Smallwood in Maryland and even Fort Tilden in Queens, New York, which gets some press on the occasions that Corey swings by.

South Carolina 161

South Carolina Maryland North Carolina New Jersey 161

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2017

I grab my binoculars, camera, and field guide and drive 2-and-a-half hours to southern New Jersey. October 23 2017: I read the text message confirming that there is indeed a Common Greenshank at Edwin B. Forsythe NWR. I miss the shorebird and get it a few days later, but that’s not the point of this story.

North America 178

North America America 2017 Birds 178

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2012

Atlantic City is now known for Peregrine Falcons. But what it even better – for me, at least – was the Peregrine Falcons. A coworker met up with me and we will killing time before the first event we had to be at when he said, “Hey, is that a falcon?” Wait, what? ” And yes, yes it was.

Falcons 165

Falcons New York Game Killing 165