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Life Along the Delaware Bay: Cape May, Gateway to a Million Shorebirds , by Lawrence Niles, Joanna Burger, and Amanda Dey, is a book with a mission. Be careful or you may end up caring deeply about the Delaware Bay and being convinced that this is a significant area we should all work to repair and preserve.
Over Memorial Day weekend (23-25 May) my family and I spent the weekend along the Delaware shore enjoying the beaches, natural areas, and tourist traps that make visiting the shore such a delight. And then there were the birds that made me remember for sure that I was in Delaware and not in New York.
Corey enjoyed a long weekend in Narrowsburg, New York, along the Delaware River at the New York-Pennsylvania border. The silver lining to these frigid winters is that birds are very active around my house, so I can enjoy cool cold-weather birds like Red-breasted Nuthatch from a warm perch.
Corey, on the other hand, is leaving all his professional cares behind as he takes to the Delaware coast. Of course, some of us work on weekends, which means I can’t go as far afield as I’d like. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below.
Corey is still enjoying a long Memorial Day weekend with his family in Delaware but wanted to share that his Best Bird of the Weekend thus far was a Chuck-Will’s-Widow calling in the predawn darkness at Cape Henlopen State Park. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?
After Nadeem attends the NWRA conference in Princeton, NJ, he will go to Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research in Delaware; The Wildlife Center of Virginia ; New Jersey’s Mercer County Wildlife Center ; and The Cape Wildlife Center in Massachusetts. What’s left? The indiegogo campaign needs donations. .
Also providing advice were Dr. Jamie Lindstrom of the VCA Northview Animal Hospital in Pittsburgh, and Dr. Erica Miller, formerly of Tri-State Bird Rescue in Delaware. Wildlife centers depend heavily on the advice of veterinarians who work with wildlife, and who often exchange treatments and experiences with each other.
They breed only in salt marshes along the Atlantic coast from Delaware to Maine, and their habitat keeps getting destroyed, developed, and fragmented. Their population is currently only 53,000 individuals and declining at a staggering 9 percent a year, a rate that will make them extinct within 50 years.
Colorado or Delaware? For me, for birding: Delaware. I’d like to see it involve at least a component of online voting, so I’ll be sure to let you know when and where that happens. That way, you can stuff the Green Heron ’s ballot box! That said, Liz and I are really grooving on Colorado these days.
Special attention is given to the migration achievements of Bar-tailed and Hudsonian Godwits and Red Knot B95 (known as Moonbird, possibly appearing in one of Karlson’s photographs), and, most importantly, to the plight of the Delaware Bay Red Knots and other shorebirds dependent on Horseshoe Crabs during migration.
We crossed the Delaware Water Gap, the Endless Mountains, the Southern Tier of New York, and then, as I pushed my Ford Focus to its limits, we crossed the law and the law won. I picked Donna up at 4 AM on Sunday, Steve at 4:20 AM, and we were heading across the Whitestone Bridge out of Queens by 4:30 AM.
If you live north of the San Francisco Bay area in California like I do, or north of Delaware on the east coast, you would most likely be looking at a Greater Yellowlegs. I must say, however, that geography can play a role also. Take a look at these range maps for the two species.
For example, in May, I was on the Maryland shore for a wedding and submitted several checklists for Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. I have found Trip Reports a useful way to organize checklists from birding trips.
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.
Though it sits on the Delaware River and residents have great views of Philadelphia when one is in Camden one is usually paying more attention to one’s immediate surroundings to enjoy the view.
He moved from Delaware to Colorado and then like a week later this bird shows up in Denver. This Ross’s Gull that showed up last winter is but one of many examples of some of the crazy birds that show up here. I joked with my good friend, Jeff Gordon (ABA President ), of his luck. Most birders go a lifetime without seeing this species.
Efforts for such a ballot initiative in Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire and Vermont have failed but efforts are currently underway to establish similar legislation in Colorado and Washington. Throughout UEP’s annual meeting speakers cautioned that Prop 2’s passage would be a major blow to the industry.
On a fateful day less than two years ago, Andy, me, and my wife Anita were birding southern Delaware. Everybody with a drug addiction had an enabler, and my rather recent love of bird photography is no different. Andy Curtis is a buddy of mine, and he was into photography before me. Andy was clicking off a few snaps with his Nikon D80.
I called Dr. Erica Miller from Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research in Delaware for some advice. This began the rehabilitation of the first recorded sighting of a White-tailed Tropicbird in the state of Connecticut! After the bird had been stabilized, I needed to decide what my next step was.
and bad ways (overharvesting of horseshoe crabs resulting in the drastic decline of Red Knots in Delaware Bay). Development, conservation, and climate change have affected bird distribution in good ways (a record 282 Bald Eagles found on the January 2009 official count!)
Be aware of areas where Lyme disease (a common tick-borne illness) is prevalent: the eastern coastal states and the north central states, especially parts of Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Wisconsin and northern California. Ticks must be removed properly. to try to remove the tick.
On eBird profile pages, size matters: tiny Delaware is barely noticeable whereas Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri are conspicuous. Other states, such as North Dakota and Arkansas, were also gray, but those seemed less troublesome, since I have never visited either state.
Many of the states with more than 100 species are home to contributors and/or have destination birding locations and/or are popular places generally. Some are all three ( e.g. , New York, California, and Florida).
He not only grew up in the Philly area, he’s an active member of the Delaware Valley Ornithology Club, and has a birding career–former tour leader, current Events Coordinator for the ABA–focused on educating birders of all different levels. And, George Armistead is the perfect author for this title.
First he drove to Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Delaware to twitch a possible Little Egret that had showed up. At that point, the tide was changing to high tide in Delaware so he wisely decided to chase the Little Egret , again. The predictable Kelp Gull never showed up in the four hours he spent at Sandgates.
A web-based initiative www.bandedbirds.org has been developed by partners in New Jersey and Delaware (USA) to incorporate shorebird sightings (or resightings) made by the public into a centralized database. To start, they entered nearly 72,000 shorebird banding records and 84,000 resighting records from established research programs.
In the spring, key staging and stopover areas include Patagonia, Argentina; eastern and northern Brazil; the southeast United States; the Virginia barrier islands; and Delaware Bay. Birds in Delaware Bay. Perhaps the most important threat to the Red Knot is climate change. Photo: Gregory Breese-USFWS.
Here they are, listed in no particular order: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge (New Mexico) Magee Marsh Wildlife Area/Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge (Ohio) Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge (Texas) Everglades National Park (Florida) Point Reyes National Seashore (California) Cape May National Wildlife Refuge (New Jersey) Santa Ana National (..)
Due to Prime Hook’s strategic location on the Delaware Bay, the refuge has national conservation significance as a designated RAMSAR Wetland of International Significance Site (1999), American Bird Conservancy-Important Bird Area (2000), and a Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network site (1986).
The Red Knot’s lengthy paragraph is totally focused on the reasons for its population decline and why it’s important to conserve migration stopover sites like Delaware Bay. The Snowy Owl account focuses on irruptions.
My current criteria for a dedicated birding trip are having a good probability of seeing several new birds or seeing a birding spectacle ( e.g. , Red Knots and other shorebirds feasting on horseshoe crab eggs in Delaware Bay). I particularly enjoy birding national wildlife refuges, so I try to include at least one on each trip.
The design is a reproduction of an eighteenth-century gin bottle found near Gibbstown, New Jersey, just across the Delaware River from Philadelphia. St Peter’s Brewery is also noted for the unusual flask-shaped glass bottle in which it packages all its bottled beers (though the brewery also releases casks).
This is a nighthawk in Delaware but, you know what? In a fairly birdless year that involved no travel outside of northeastern North America, Mike’s Best Bird of the Year had to be the Common Nighthawk observed randomly soaring over the Bronx. Those goatsuckers are far too rare over cities these days. Close enough… What about me?
Downsville (Delaware Co.). Roxanne’s house: Palmetto Bay, FL. 21 Jan 2019. Brown Quail – Synoicus ypsilophorus. Western Australia. 05 Jan 2019. Ring-necked Pheasant – Phasianus colchicus. 06 Jan 2019. Wild Turkey – Meleagris gallopavo. Aiden Hill Road. 03 Jan 2019. Little Grebe – Tachybaptus ruficollis.
There are some exceptional images here, such as the full-page Green-winged Teal drake, the complexity of its coloring reflected in the pond water, and the shorebirds of the Delaware Bay, flying in Escher-like patterns of brown, black, and white.
Bombay Hook NWR (Delaware): 95.2%. In other words, virtually all of Santa Ana NWR was purchased with MBCF money. Top 25 NWRs for birding and percent of acres purchased with MBCF funds: Anahuac NWR (Texas): 80.0%. Aransas NWR (Texas): 42.7%. Bear River MBR (Utah): 36.9%. Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR (Washington): 56.3%.
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