10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2023

Pelee National Park – Ohio Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge – Texas These locations offer a variety of habitats including marshes, wetlands, forests, coastal areas, and deserts, attracting numerous bird species throughout the year. Please note that the availability of specific bird species may vary depending on the season.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2014

Yesterday, Saturday, 19 July, an apparent European Golden-Plover was found in a sod field in western New Jersey in Pittsdown, which is in Hunterdon County. Apparently, the third record of this bird in the eastern United States and the first in New Jersey was enough to get the twitchers twitching!

New Jersey 157

New Jersey United States Germany Abandon 157

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2013

Atlantic Coast subspecies crepitans in New Jersey by Corey Finger. So, Maley suggests recognizing four species, instead of the two currently recognized. I should also note that the abstract for the Condor paper proposes five , not four, species. Clapper Rail of the grayish U.S.

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Species North America Cuba Louisiana 218

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2021

As of mid-November 2021, the Collaborative had submitted more than 4,200 checklists (up from 1,700 in 2018) and has observed 691 species in the United States (up from 618). Thus, there are now seven states with 200+ observed species. The state with the largest increase was Arizona , with 139 species added.

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United States West Virginia Puerto Rico Minnesota 197

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Fish and Wildlife Service has listed the “Rufa” population of Red Knot ( Calidris canutus rufa ) as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The other sub-species, Calidris canutus roselaari , migrates along the Pacific Coast and breeds in Alaska and the Wrangel Island in Russia. Birds in Delaware Bay.

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Endangered Species Protection Delaware Species 160

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2019

One place that is not particularly known for sightings of the Cape May Warbler is Cape May, New Jersey, where Alexander Wilson first described the bird. But why allow the location where the bird was first described be forever memorialized in the name of such a charismatic species? I dare you. Tiger warbler. Tiger Warbler.

New Jersey 156

New Jersey Tigers United States Industry 156

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2014

Steve Young of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, is the coordinator of the Long Island Invasive Species Management Area. He kindly agreed to share his knowledge of this new threat to the beaches of New York and the animals and plants that rely on them.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2015

These and several other species might end up being armchair ticks if and when we take a closer look at their evolutionary history. Taxa that could end up being split into one species occurring north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and one south of the isthmus. (2). Two subspecies of the same species that differ within Costa Rica. (4).

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Costa Rica Species South America America 211

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2013

On a Big Year, every species counts equally, even the lowly House Sparrow. As of my writing this he is off to a roaring start with 169 species recorded already. Rangel Diaz is doing a big year in Miami-Dade County, Florida, hoping to reach 300 species, and keeping a blog about it. What records will fall in 2013?

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2013 New Jersey Los Angeles North Carolina 197

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The recent hubbub in the northeastern United States in terms of rare birds has been all about the Whiskered Tern at Cape May, the third record of this species for North America. … Trips Cape May doggerel New Jersey poetry terns Twitching vagrant Whiskered Tern' All three of those records are from Cape May.

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New Jersey United States North America America 201

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2012

Last week a mystery bird from New Jersey rightly caused a fair bit of confusion among birders of the Garden State and beyond. There’s a little hint of white in the malar and throat too, which would seem to be a problem for the species Black- chinned Sparrow. New Jersey mystery sparrow.

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New Jersey North Carolina Sparrows Connecticut 222

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2013

Mark Kirk and Alisha Belo are doing a southern Africa big year, trying to see 800 species. As of the end of March they had already reached a whopping 652 species ! Ali Iyoob is sitting pretty at 230 species in his North Carolina big year during which he is trying to break the state record of 351. Birding 2013 big year'

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2013 New Jersey North Carolina Canada 185

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2014

A good state bird guide needs to offer details about a bird’s look, sound, behavior and habitat in language that is specific enough to differentiate the bird from similar-looking species, but nonscientific enough not to intimidate novice birders. Species are organized in American Ornithologists’ Union taxonomic order.

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New Jersey Birds 2014 Species 242

10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2012

The bird in these photos was foraging in the pond at the south end of Van Saun Park in northern New Jersey, a place I often stop to bird briefly on my way to work. If you liked this post and want to see more great images of birds make sure to check out 10,000 Clicks , our big (and growing) page of galleries here at 10,000 Birds.

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New Jersey North America Chile South America 174

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2014

While I didn’t notice any Neotropical migrants this weekend, I was pleased to spot a Tufted Titmouse , a species I tend to miss during winter.

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New Jersey 2014 Louisiana Bears 174

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2018

Others were established to protect specific bird species or subspecies. Bosque del Apache NWR (New Mexico). Forsythe NWR (New Jersey). according to eBird , including: Aransas (368 species); Bosque del Apache (360); Parker River (359); Laguna Atascosa (356); Santa Ana (342); Anahuac (329); Pea Island (326); and Edwin B.

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Wildlife Las Vegas Texas Minnesota 214

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2018

Northern Cardinal , Blue Jay , Northern Mockingbird – not drawn to scale but completely ok for New Jersey. For instance, take this image, found decorating a room at the summer camp in Friday the 13th: The Game. Apparently the ornithology of Camp Crystal Lake is pretty wacky. Weirder things have happened.

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New Jersey Litter Game Hunters 101

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

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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Delaware New Jersey Research Eggs 179

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

After a Tufted Duck was reported yesterday on Long Island I did some figuring and realized that I could go find the bird this morning before work and still, provided traffic wasn’t totally horrific, get to work in New Jersey on time. So I headed out to Huntington Harbor, ran into Anthony Collerton, and eventually found the bird.

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New York Ducks New Jersey California 141

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Sure, they are called Black-throated Green Warblers but in the fall they often don’t have much of a black throat as this individual photographed at the Oradell Reservoir in Oradell, New Jersey, shows. Prairie Warbler is a stupid name for this species which has nothing to do with prairies. This was a nice scope view!

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New York City New Jersey New York Philadelphia 206

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2012

Their fondness for open woods means that they often adapt well to breeding in parks and it was Van Saun Park in New Jersey’s Bergen County that I found the individual shown in this blog post. Good news for birders but bad news for caterpillars! Some think that the three western subspecies - V. swainsonii , V.

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New Jersey United States Philadelphia Canada 189

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

I really do like the short birding outings I experience at Van Saun Park in Paramus, New Jersey, once or twice a week before I head in to the office. I’ve gotten to know where to expect to find the common birds and sometimes I spot something new for me in the park, like a Vesper Sparrow or an Eastern Bluebird.

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New Jersey Sparrows Experience Experiments 156

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2012

On Wednesday morning I had a meeting in Bayonne, New Jersey for my job and as is my wont I left my house in Queens early to beat the traffic and therefore found myself with a little over an hour to kill before my meeting.

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New Jersey Sparrows Investigation Killing 174

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Ever since part of assignment at work has involved me spending time in Bayonne, New Jersey, I have found time before or after meetings to get out for short birding outings in a couple of the parks with better habitat in Bayonne. My favorite birding thus far is the combination of Stephen R. Craig County Park and Richard A.

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New Jersey Sparrows Birds Experience 168

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Everyone always talks about how secretive rails are and how difficult it is to get a good look and I agree, most species are pretty darn unwilling to show themselves. Anyway, the point here is, well, that Clapper Rails are not a jinx bird for me. In fact, they are the opposite of a jinx bird. But not Clapper Rails , at least not for me.

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New Jersey Wildlife Birds Species 157

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2019

I like observing them, reading about them, grappling with species and subspecies identification, and even—on a good day—talking about sparrow taxonomy. Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America covers 61 species of the New World sparrow family Passerellidae that breed in Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico.

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North America Sparrows America United States 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

There is another area of the Queens County CBC where a team will also likely see Monk Parakeets , Myipsitta monachus , but I am seriously determined to count that bird for my area, Coastal Flushing, a section of northeast Queens, New York, that includes Whitestone, home of one of the loudest invasive bird species in the U.S.

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Chicago New York City New York Illinois 200

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2012

In Angus’s own words: the New York State Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) has carefully reviewed the six reports we received documenting the Staten Island Hooded Crow from June 2011 (NYSARC-20-A/F), as well as other materials and unanimously voted to ACCEPT the identification but after much reflection, considered the ORIGINS UNCERTAIN.

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New York New Jersey 2011 Cats 101

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.

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Colorado Florida Birds New Jersey 235

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

That is, of course, dependent on me finishing a manuscript in a timely way by the end of February which I am well on my way to doing, having completed over one hundred species accounts thus far. In the meantime, I have whittled down the number of birds I want to include to 298 species, which is still a bit more than I am supposed to include.

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New York New Jersey Colorado Pennsylvania 198

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2013

Phaetusa simplex is the only species in its genus and it seems very unlikely that it will be confused with another tern species. One has been seen in New Jersey in 1988 , in Illinois in 1949, and in Ohio in 1954 (Links are PDFs.) – interestingly, all in May.). And that is when I saw my first Large-billed Tern !

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Trinidad New Jersey Nevada Illinois 173

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

Birding by Impression is a conscious, deliberate method of identifying and recognizing birds based on the study and evaluation of “distinctive structural features and behavioral movements” and comparison with nearby and similar species. It is not a handbook, though it approaches species from a collective viewpoint. “BBI

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Birds New Jersey Science Groups 170

10,000 Birds

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. So far, 33 species have been eBirded in Serbia. Black-winged Stilt.

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Serbia New Jersey Europe Hunters 153

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A half-century ago, this species might have been restricted to Iowa or New Jersey, but now it can be found throughout New England and even south-eastern Canada. This native of Oklahoma, Texas, and Mexico is now recognized as a separate species, but the two species will hybridize when they meet.

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Arizona Oklahoma Texas Mexico 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2012

In New York, as is the case across most of the area where the “eastern” wood-warblers migrate, there are four species that are almost always the first to appear. All of the images in this post were taken over the last week with my digiscoping rig in New York and New Jersey.

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New Jersey New York United States Louisiana 181

10,000 Birds

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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North Carolina New York Delaware Puerto Rico 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Originally from New Jersey, she has lived in South Carolina for over a decade, and was a great help identifying the shorebirds we found. No, we didn’t find any new turtle tracks, but we did record 18 bird species. As we continued, we passed shorebirds and more shorebirds, and I struggled to keep an accurate count.

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South Carolina Turtles Costa Rica Belize 100