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How to Help Cerulean Warblers, Other Migrant Species, and Resident Birds in Costa Rica

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Such migration hotspots include the famed Magee Marsh area in Ohio, Point Pelee in southern Ontario, Cape May, New Jersey, and what might be the best area, sites on the Texas coast. To find even one Cerulean Warbler, most birders need to spend a few days birding major migration hotspots or visit a known breeding site in June.

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Ground Zero Hero

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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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Life Along The Delaware Bay: A Book Review

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Of course, I jest a bit in the above paragraph because as a sometime New Jersey birder I have birded the Delaware Bay and seen sights such as the memorable image below, in which thousands of Red Knots, Dunlins, and Short-billed Dowitchers fly up as if connected telepathically.

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The “Rufa” Red Knot is now protected under the Endangered Species Act

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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. Red Knots have already lost more than 80 percent of their coastal habitat in Florida, New Jersey, and New York.

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I and the Bird: What is an Ibis?

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And, as one particular notorious incident suggests, we are not the only organisms with an eye towards these waders. While in the New World our ibises appear mostly feathered throughout, there are several ibis species in the Old World with bizarre bald heads that make them seem almost vulturine in appearance.

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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

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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! A listing of raptor conservation organizations seems the logical item to follow an appeal for support of these organizations.

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India’s Raptor Rescuers

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Wildlife Rescue is a registered non-profit organization and all donations are tax-deductible, but birds of prey are not popular in India. But the recession, as well as the time they’ve taken from their business to help the birds, has made paying the bills more and more difficult.