10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

The concerned person who took the photograph approached a Lukeoil Station in Northvale, New Jersey to inquire about the bird’s well-being, and the owner said dismissively that he could do whatever he liked and had four more birds at home. One’s ability to own an exotic species varies from state to state.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Tethering Giraffes Alabama 262

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.

United States 162

United States Michigan Texas Virginia 162

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 Cuba North America Louisiana 216

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

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

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.

West Virginia 195

West Virginia United States Puerto Rico Minnesota 195

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 209

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.

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Tigers New Jersey United States Canada 154

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.

New Jersey 170

New Jersey New York New York City Japan 170

10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2012

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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New Jersey New York City Leopards New York 177

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2015

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, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida), and forty-two counties. (I’m That increased my total list from my balcony to 92 species!

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2014 Costa Rica New Jersey New York 240

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I think every naturalist in the United States knows the outlines of this urban tale: The pristine marshes of New Jersey 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 New Jersey Meadowlands and it is all true.

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New Jersey Legislation Mammals Pigs 146

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 200

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 Los Angeles New Jersey North Carolina 195

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

Taking inspiration from Matthiessen’s 1967 book (long out of print), which combined his natural history essays with species accounts by Ralph S. Species Profile, Black-necked Stilt, p. 57; © 2024 by Pete Dunne and Kevin T.

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North America America 2006 Delaware 259

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 220

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2011

On a single trip I have seen four species of turtle, which must be my all time high in one day. Unfortunately, I have not managed a decent photograph of a Snapping Turtle in New Jersey yet, so you will have to be happy with shots of only three of the species I have spotted. Happy turtling!

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Turtles Terrapins New Jersey Reptiles 182

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 184

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

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 173

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

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 Eggs Research 178

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 205

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.

New Jersey 188

New Jersey Philadelphia United States Canada 188

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

You see, like many other neighborhoods in and around New York City, Howard Beach has a significant population of Monk Parakeets , a South American parrot species that has adapted well to life in New York City, Chicago, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, and Texas after having escaping or being released from captivity.

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Parrots New York City New York New Jersey 224

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2012

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 New Jersey. They do tend to wander after breeding which explains my first encounter with that New Jersey bird.

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Wildlife New Jersey South America United States 178

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.

New York 140

New York Ducks New Jersey California 140

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 155

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 173

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.

New Jersey 167

New Jersey Sparrows Birds Species 167

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

As of mid-October 2018, the Collaborative had submitted more than 1,700 checklists and observed 618 species in the United States. The heat map is revealing: Unsurprisingly for a site founded and run by two New Yorkers (one of whom literally wrote the book on birding New York), the Empire State boasts the highest number of species (316).

Rhode Island 114

Rhode Island United States West Virginia Puerto Rico 114

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.

New Jersey 157

New Jersey Wildlife Birds Species 157

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 Illinois New York 198

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2012

Unlike other species that strut their stuff turkeys seem not to have set leks where they display. 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 New Jersey. Maybe those caruncles are an aphrodisiac?

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Turkey New Jersey Game Fish 174

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 New Jersey North America 234

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

Critically, NWRs preserve habitat and wildlife, often for endangered species. Forsythe NWR (New Jersey): 306,000; $6.0 Of course, the study does not purport to rank refuges based on visitation-based economic output, as that is just one metric. Blackwater NWR (Maryland): 223,000; $7.8 million; 63 jobs. million; 48 jobs.

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Wildlife Maryland San Francisco Minnesota 244

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.

New York 197

New York New Jersey Colorado Pennsylvania 197