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MAY 6, 2014

And, if the first book in the series, the American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New Jersey by Rick Wright (author) and Brian E. As a birder who frequently birds New Jersey (and sometimes works and lives there), I am so happy that New Jersey is ABA state number one! Well, in the series.)

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JUNE 9, 2015

Over the last five or six years, Common Ravens have been sighted with increasing frequency in New York City, part of a resurgence throughout the Northeast after more than a century of regional extirpation. They’ve also recently nested in the Bronx and nearby in New Jersey. In 2010, Common Ravens nested in Queens.

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MARCH 25, 2016

That did not stop a New Jersey animal shelter from publishing this rabble-rousing flyer on Facebook, all written in alarming red capital letters: PARK RANGERS AND VET OFFICES ARE PUTTING OUT WARNINGS. One might say the heart of the person who wrote the flyer was in the right place.

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OCTOBER 7, 2011

On 6 October I came across an American Redstart in Edgewater, New Jersey, that seemed perfectly normal at first, when I was only viewing the bird’s left side. When I saw the bird’s right profile I realized something was wrong but it took me a couple of minutes to get a clear view and then I felt nothing but pity.

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New Jersey Sparrows Rights Birds 163

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

They make their way south in big numbers, especially on days when the winds are right, which generally from the north, though they do tend to pile up very nicely at many hawkwatch sites in the northeastern United States when the winds are out of the northwest.

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JULY 27, 2012

On the other, she sounded like she might have a respiratory infection, I didn’t have the right drug on hand, and I was scared to death that I might go down in history as the killer of the birdie Methuselah. I wanted to put her in the Mayo Clinic. The plot thickened. The old hawk was an instant celebrity.

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Rabbits New Jersey Neglecting North America 243

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

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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APRIL 5, 2012

That’s NEXRAD radar map in the left binocular lens and a surface weather map on the right. 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. I am told the birder is NOT Derek Lovitch, who is pictured below.)

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Several members of the Audubon Society said the plan fails to answer questions about how cats will be managed and what rights neighbors will have if the cats become a nuisance. But it’s something in the right direction.”. First Amendment rights are in question here,” Moriarty said. First amendment rights? No,” he said.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 213

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The bird was a little harder to find than I expected; I needed to triangulate the sounds of the call and finally, after standing and looking and walking around the tree where the bird had to be calling from, I took a deep breath, looked again, and there it was right in front of me, actually at eye level. At least for birders.

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Arizona Lovebirds Phoenix New Jersey 103

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The trap had been set in the woods right next to my house. The states which have essentially banned leghold traps are Florida, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, California, and Washington. The name and town of the owner were engraved on a metal tag. I’d released birds there. I knew the wildlife.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Rhode Island New Jersey Wildlife 235

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MAY 5, 2015

The Karlson-Rosselet BBI approach is theoretically based on hemispheric brain differences, the idea that the left side of our brain processes stimuli analytically in a linear manner and the right side of our brain processes what we see and hear creatively and holistically. There Is No Left Brain/Right Brain Divide by Stephen M.

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Birds New Jersey Science Groups 171

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

I have a pretty high standard to live up to though, so I’m feeling a bit of pressure to get things right or, at least not disastrously wrong. It’s not easy, I’m learning a ton, and it’s kind of fun.

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APRIL 9, 2012

All of the images in this post were taken over the last week with my digiscoping rig in New York and New Jersey. We are at the height of Pine Warbler migration in the northeast right now and I have taken full advantage of it. The bright yellow birds are males and the dull shots are of a cooperative female.

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MAY 3, 2022

It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. I imagined walking right up to them. High Island in April requires Weather, so I was told. American Avocets.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 217

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But, then, no one expected a Common Greenshanks in New Jersey. You drive towards Jones Beach then hang a left down Ocean Parkway, ignoring the birder sitting next to you pointing out a possible Merlin and newly arrived Brant because you need to drive at just the right speed. No one expected a Corn Crake. Parking is a challenge.

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New York North America France Feral Cats 161

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APRIL 11, 2019

A biologist friend of mine recently moved from New Jersey (where she visited the estuaries to study hundreds of thousands waders at close range) to Belgrade where I showed her some inland birding sites with two shorebirds here and one or two more over there. Where to find shorebirds around Belgrade, Serbia?

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Serbia New Jersey Europe Hunters 158

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APRIL 9, 2018

To get there we would need to get out of New York, through New Jersey into Delaware, and then on through Maryland and Virginia until finally reaching our destination. We broke the drive down into two segments: from New York to Delaware on 31 March and from Delaware to North Carolina on 1 April.

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APRIL 20, 2011

News stories of turkeys causing car accidents abound around the US right now. 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.

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Turkey Hunters New Jersey Boston 235

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MAY 9, 2016

We headed north to the George Washington Bridge, west across New Jersey, west and then north through Pennsylvania, and back into New York at Binghamton where we turned west once again. The long drive back to New York was filled by more lousy, incidental eBird checklists, more fast food, and more road kill.

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New York Bald Eagle McDonalds Fast Food 101

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Listed as a Species of Special Concern in New York and as threatened or endangered in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, Poocetes gramineus is in trouble in the northeastern United States and, considering the decline shown in Ontario’s second breeding bird atlas, in eastern Canada as well.*

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Sparrows North Dakota United States Downers 165

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

There were a host of great shorebirds in New York’s Orange County on Thursday early in the day but reports of roads being flooded out and the rather long distance, almost two hours travel from Queens, made that idea a reject. What was this particular ibis doing in northern New Jersey?

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

I was on New Jersey Audubon’s Grand North Dakota birding tour this past July, driving along dirt roads through the prairies of western North Dakota. Right past the Pipit, on a rise, was a Grasshopper Sparrow singing on a Purple Coneflower, a flower we surprisingly saw everywhere. (I Scott Barnes, N.J. back to the birds.

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North Dakota Birds Sparrows Blackbirds 142

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DECEMBER 31, 2013

Seriously, go to Trinidad and Tobago right now and see the ibis. Hopefully I will see at least that many species in 2014! The City of Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve was the highlight, with so many birds in so short a time that my head is still spinning. a Verdin at the City of Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve. You will not be disappointed.

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2013 New York City New York Trinidad 176

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MARCH 29, 2015

That was the first thing we–our New Jersey Audubon group of 11 birders, led by Scott Barnes–noted as we exited the airport. I would have known this right away if I was up to date on my Alexander Skutch. There was no snow. And lots of greenery. And, no snow. And Great-tailed Grackles. And, No Snow.

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Honduras Birds Costa Rica Groups 253

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NOVEMBER 4, 2014

There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. And so, I went on the American Birding Association Safari to South Africa.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 254

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DECEMBER 23, 2014

Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. Below are our Best Birds of the Year. What was yours? Let us know in the comments…see you there!

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 192

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JULY 1, 2014

In the lower right-hand corner we see the partial figure of a bespectacled hiker. This plate is right at the center of the book. 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. In 1967 only 24 parrots were living in El Yunque.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 237

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JUNE 17, 2015

That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. New Jersey/New York. Established in 1964, the William L.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 144

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MARCH 6, 2011

We were at Big John’s pond and a red tailed hawk came out of nowhere and we thought he was going to fly right into the blind. Wicked, right? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. No time to take a picture. Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 New York Deer Birds 155

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NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Even crazier, the Lower Hudson Christmas Bird Count, which includes parts of Bergen and Hudson Counties in New Jersey and most of Manhattan, also overlaps our count, but so far as I know no birders have ever ventured into Queens from Manhattan to lay claim to any turf. And if they did we would surely send them packing!).

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Birds New York City New York New Jersey 163

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MAY 17, 2011

I’ve been on the wrong side of the bush from one or more during fall migration at Higbee’s Beach in Cape May, New Jersey. A dirt road lead off to the right, past a sign for a gun club. I gazed at the bird, its eyes looking right through me. I set up the scope and took some hopeless digiscoped shots.

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Connecticut North Dakota Ohio Owls 174

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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!). A guide that feels so right in my hands? It’s a question many of us are grappling with.

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North America 2003 Birds America 166

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Photograph of a Wild Turkey at Flatrock Brook Nature Center, in Englewood, New Jersey, by Corey. This is the time of year that we rightfully contemplate the noble Turkey. This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 206

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MARCH 21, 2015

For the birder, this means that no matter how many Clapper Rails you have seen in the salt marshes of New Jersey, North Carolina, or Texas, that Clapper Rail that lurks in the Black Mangroves at Chomes, Costa Rica is going to be a different species. Check out recordings of Clapper Rail from North America and Costa Rica.

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Costa Rica Species South America America 217

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FEBRUARY 6, 2021

The medieval flint churches of Norfolk stand right in the center of the most exciting birding in England, and our Black Sea cruises from port to historic port feature Dalmatian Pelicans and Audouin Gulls. One of the great benefits of being a tour leader is getting to make birding friends from all over the world.

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DECEMBER 5, 2014

John grew up near the Great Swamp Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey, is a gifted photographer , and has an easterner’s view of snowfall. He was right; a cheerful, enthusiastic group of parka-clad people eventually arrived to watch slides, listen to tales of bird rescue and rehab, and buy some of my books. Tuesday was crunch day.

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