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The American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF), in partnership with the Harold Wetterberg Foundation, is once again awarding scholarships to current or former residents of NewJersey who are pursuing a career in veterinary medicine.
And, if the first book in the series, the American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of NewJersey by Rick Wright (author) and Brian E. As a birder who frequently birds NewJersey (and sometimes works and lives there), I am so happy that NewJersey is ABA state number one! Well, in the series.)
Sometimes my job, which is for a NewJersey-wide labor union, requires me to meet in Bayonne, across the Hudson River, which at that point is indistinguishable from New York Harbor, from Staten Island. As you can imagine traffic can be a nightmare. This often means that I end up with an hour or so to kill in Bayonne.
It’s tough being a NewJersey birder. Jersey has always gotten a bad rap in general (the smells of the turnpike, the Jersey shore, the governor), and in the world of birding, the state often seems to be symbolized by two words: Cape May. Press, 2003). published by Princeton University Press.
We were four intrepid birders heading out of New York City to the wilds of NewJersey for birds, birds and more birds. ” Sandy Hook, our destination, is park of Gateway National Recreation Area like many of my favorite New York City birding locations. .” … Trips NewJersey Sandy Hook'
Back on 14 January Larry and Shari Zirlin were fortunate enough to come across an amazing three Northern Lapwings in a field in New Egypt, NewJersey, while out looking for a pair of reported Sandhill Cranes. It also seemed kind of silly to go that far out of my way for a species that I just saw in November in Montauk.
Mentioning NewJersey often raises a snicker or a run down of all the drama and negative stereotypes that swirl around the Garden State, most of which are typified by the MTV hit show, “Jersey Shore.” The legislature named the goldfinch the state bird in 1935 , sharing the designation with Washington and Iowa.
The video above, taken yesterday at NewJersey’s Stone Harbor Point by Tom Johnson , is pretty awesome. Birds Bird Behavior falcons NewJersey owls Peregrine Falcon Snowy Owl' Well, I suppose they could have been Gyrfalcons … Oh, and if that first video wasn’t enough here is a second video from today!
NewJersey’s first bear hunt in five years is just a week away and set to go on as planned despite a last-ditch effort by several animal rights organizations to have the hunt postponed. The facts are clear, we have an overpopulation of black bears in NewJersey, and we must address that issue," said Martin in a press statement. "A
Last week a mystery bird from NewJersey rightly caused a fair bit of confusion among birders of the Garden State and beyond. NewJersey mystery sparrow. The bird was a sparrow, that much was clear, but it didn’t seem to fit any of the easily boxes the other North American sparrows can be fairly easily sorted into.
The pine barrens of NewJersey look rather plain and boring if you only see them while driving past on the Garden State Parkway or NewJersey Turnpike. By the time urban and suburban sprawl started to reach NewJersey’s pine barrens they were largely protected and today over 1.1
I think every naturalist in the United States knows the outlines of this urban tale: The pristine marshes of NewJersey are poisoned by pollution, toxic waste, pig farms, and probably every single way in which human beings can destroy the environment. This is the fable of the NewJersey Meadowlands and it is all true.
The following has been released by the Port Authority of New York and NewJersey: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. CONTACT: Port Authority of New York and NewJersey. It looks like we are well on our way to victory on this issue! December 9, 2013. 212-435-7777. STATEMENT FROM THE PORT AUTHORITY ON SNOWY OWLS.
All of these birds were photographed in the last couple of months in New York and NewJersey as they made their way south on their amazing migration. Every fall and spring for the last several years I have been putting together a collection of wood-warblers spotted on migration. Why stop now?
Greg Cantrell is doing a NewJersey Big Year, hoping for 300 species, and raising funds for the NewJersey Audubon Citizen Science program. No blog, but you can check out this post on the NewJersey eBird portal. You can see what she is up to at Laura’s Conservation Big Year 2013.
where she grew up, and central NewJersey, where she is on the faculty of a very large public university, and a volunteer with the Sandy Hook Bird Observatory of NewJersey Audubon. Donna divides her birding time between Queens, N.Y.,
According to the Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of NewJersey (link is a PDF) there are thirteen species of turtle that can be found in the state, so I have already spotted just under a third of the turtle species that there are to see in the Garden State.
… Trips Cape May doggerel NewJersey poetry terns Twitching vagrant Whiskered Tern' Two hundred plus pictures, most of them. Fly away rarity, fly, To wherever it is that you’re going. While you’re gone this guy. About seeing you will be crowing.
Flatrock Brook is in the the city of Englewood, NewJersey, just across the George Washington Bridge from New York City. They were gone from New York State from the 1840s until around 1948 and in NewJersey from the mid-1800s until they were reintroduced in 1977.)
Yesterday, Saturday, 19 July, an apparent European Golden-Plover was found in a sod field in western NewJersey in Pittsdown, which is in Hunterdon County. Apparently, the third record of this bird in the eastern United States and the first in NewJersey was enough to get the twitchers twitching!
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, NewJersey, shows. This was a nice scope view! Two year birds – Pectoral Sandpiper and Buff-breasted Sandpiper – at once!
Their fondness for open woods means that they often adapt well to breeding in parks and it was Van Saun Park in NewJersey’s Bergen County that I found the individual shown in this blog post. Warbling Vireos are found breeding in open deciduous woods, often riparian, across Mexico, the United States, and southern Canada.
It was taken in Paramus, NewJersey, at Van Saun Park earlier today. Well, what is odd about this picture? Spotted Sandpiper Actitus macularia Figured it out? Scroll on down to learn the answer. … … … … … … … … … Keep On Scrolling!
On October 29 th 2012, “superstorm” Sandy devastated the east coast of the USA, affecting states from Florida to Maine, with severe damage in NewJersey and New York. We know that Corey and his family came through the ordeal safely, but what of the warblers?
Of course, I jest a bit in the above paragraph because as a sometime NewJersey 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.
The bird in these photos was foraging in the pond at the south end of Van Saun Park in northern NewJersey, a place I often stop to bird briefly on my way to work.
Read on if you want to indulge me in reliving my version of it… In 2014 I birded in three countries (United States, Canada, Costa Rica), four states (New York, NewJersey, Pennsylvania, Florida), and forty-two counties. (I’m Chasing a pair of far-flung vagrants in NewJersey.
I have, however, seen flocks of twenty-plus birds a couple of times at Van Saun Park in Paramus, NewJersey, when I stop for some birding on my way to work.
My first migrating Eastern Phoebe of the year was at the Oradell Reservoir in NewJersey on 15 March, slightly earlier than my average of 19 March. My first migrating phoebe in New York wasn’t until 29 March at Forest Park in my home borough of Queens. When did you get your first phoebe of the year?
Greg Cantrell is doing a NewJersey Big Year, hoping for 300 species, and raising funds for the NewJersey Audubon Citizen Science program. He’s reached 189, pretty impressive for mid-April, and you can keep up with him at My NewJersey Big Year.
Instead I called my friend Cathy at the famous Raptor Trust in NewJersey, where they have a fully equipped hospital and full-time veterinary technicians on staff. Bring her down,” said Cathy. The plot thickened.
And there were several birds, often feeding close to shore, much different from my first encounter with the species along another fabled wildlife drive, the one at Brigantine in NewJersey. They do tend to wander after breeding which explains my first encounter with that NewJersey bird. Nothing, that’s what.
On Wednesday morning I had a meeting in Bayonne, NewJersey 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.
I was at the Oradell Reservoir in Bergen County, NewJersey (the northeasternmost county in NewJersey for those keeping track at home) and the woods were busy with Palm Warblers , Yellow-rumped Warblers , and Pine Warblers. A recent encounter with a female Pine Warbler was one such opportunity.
Here in New York State Snowy Owls have been reported in more than ten counties, with most of those counties having birds being seen in multiple locations.
Because of my job I have, of late, been spending lots of time in southern NewJersey. Of course I have not been spending time in the southernmost part of NewJersey because, as a birder, I could never be lucky enough to have to work in Cape May. Keep singing, Song Sparrow , and people of Camden, keep struggling.
I have seen Wild Turkeys displaying on the side of busy roads several times and one of the birds in this post was actually photographed in the middle of a road in suburban NewJersey. Maybe those caruncles are an aphrodisiac? Wish them well so that you may continue to have turkeys in your neighborhood!
Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis at Edgemere Landfill, Queens, New York Osprey Pandion haliaetus at Jones Beach State Park, Nassau County, New York Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus at Bayonne Golf Course, Bayonne, NewJersey Merlin Falco columbarius at Jones Beach State Park, Nassau County, New York Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus Peregrine Falcon (..)
NewJersey’s first European Golden-Plover , which was found in Pittstown on Saturday, stuck around for Corey to chase on Sunday. How do you like my odds of finding a different blue bird next weekend? Maybe I’ll have to leave the country! Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a wonderful bird to twitch.
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. A new invasive plant is threatening the beaches of Long Island, Asiatic Sand Sedge or Carex kobomugi. This is a young plant producing a new white rhizome from its base.
But, before we get to the patch, Lovitch takes us to his home state of NewJersey for a “Case Study” in applying his principles and better birding skills on the road. First of all, I work in NewJersey and I’m familiar with all the places he describes. (If I loved this chapter.
I really do like the short birding outings I experience at Van Saun Park in Paramus, NewJersey, 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.
Even though American rehabbers are notoriously broke and always searching for their own funding, one bought Nadeem an NWRA membership and paid for his conference fee; another coached him through the application process and helped him win a scholarship to pay his airfare from India to NewJersey. What’s left?
Despite my manic work schedule of late my positioning in southern NewJersey does lend itself to an occasional, if brief, birding outing when the stars align properly and I am near a birdy spot when I suddenly find myself with a free hour or so. A couple of times I have had this happen near the Edwin B.
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