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New Jersey’s Pine Barrens Are Not At All Barren

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The pine barrens of New Jersey look rather plain and boring if you only see them while driving past on the Garden State Parkway or New Jersey Turnpike. By the time urban and suburban sprawl started to reach New Jersey’s pine barrens they were largely protected and today over 1.1

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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 rise of the urban falcon

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Similarities between the Golden Nugget Casino penthouse in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Chichester Cathedral, West Sussex, are not obvious, but there is one. The falcons’ low-point was 1963, when only three breeding pairs were known in southern England, and only 13% of Welsh eyries were occupied.

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

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With birds bedecked in their breeding best and filling the air with song, this is migration at its loveliest. Threatened by loss of habitat both on breeding as well as wintering grounds, a few species have even become endangered or at least on a perilous track towards that worrisome designation.

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The Shorebirds of North America: A Natural History and Photographic Celebration–A Book Review

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A section in the Appendix, “Rare Shorebird Vagrants,” lists 16 additional species that do not show up annually in North America but who have more than ten records; the list notes where the species breed and where their vagrant paths have taken them within North American borders.

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What to Do at High Island When the Winds are South

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Fortunately, as I found out over the next four days, High Island, the Bolivar Peninsula, the whole east Texan Gulf coast area is a place of diverse habitats, some protected, some accidental, all offering fantastic avian opportunities. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century. Clapper Rail.

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Feral Cats in American Cities

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Nonprofit pet protection groups would manage the program and be responsible for ensuring that cat caretakers take the required steps. New Jersey is Undecided. New Jersey has an interesting approach, at the sate level. What about second amendment rights?!!?? Mole hills!