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What is the State Bird of New Jersey?

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Mentioning New Jersey 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.”

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Big Years in 2013

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Greg Cantrell is doing a New Jersey Big Year, hoping for 300 species, and raising funds for the New Jersey Audubon Citizen Science program. No blog, but you can check out this post on the New Jersey eBird portal. You can see what she is up to at Laura’s Conservation Big Year 2013.

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2013 Big Year Update

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Greg Cantrell is doing a New Jersey Big Year, hoping for 300 species, and raising funds for the New Jersey Audubon Citizen Science program. He’s reached 189, pretty impressive for mid-April, and you can keep up with him at My New Jersey Big Year.

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The Queen

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Instead I called my friend Cathy at the famous Raptor Trust in New Jersey, where they have a fully equipped hospital and full-time veterinary technicians on staff. The grand old bird became a surrogate mother, and raised them herself. Bring her down,” said Cathy. The plot thickened.

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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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India’s Raptor Rescuers

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In March, Mohammed will take over while Nadeem attends our National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association conference, a 5-day extravaganza of lectures, labs, roundtables and tours, this year held in New Jersey.

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Why Are Red-breasted Nuthatches Irrupting?

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If they each raised nine owlets, the owlets alone would have eaten over 25,000 lemmings from that valley. Red-breasted Nuthatch at Van Saun Park, New Jersey I don’t want to understate my lack of scientific credentials, which is total. So this was a good summer for lemmings, a very good year. Thank a pine cone.