10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

I knew the wildlife. Had I known the law better I would have said, “Excuse me, but this trap is not worth over $250 nor have I damaged it with explosives, so in the State of New York you cannot legally charge me with Malicious Mischief.” I have a book about injured wildlife coming out soon, and I couldn’t buy better publicity.”.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

“It is next to impossible to persuade people in India to donate money for injured raptors,” says Nadeem Shehzad, co-founder of Wildlife Rescue , a registered non-profit in the Chawri Bazar area of Old Delhi. Watch this remarkable video about Wildlife Rescue, and read their blog. It is our duty to save them.”.

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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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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. They use the photographs as part of the textual flow.

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MARCH 25, 2016

That did not stop a New Jersey animal shelter from publishing this rabble-rousing flyer on Facebook, all written in alarming red capital letters: PARK RANGERS AND VET OFFICES ARE PUTTING OUT WARNINGS. Wildlife lovers and rehabilitators, as always, tried to intervene. “I I had no idea!” “How That’s why we need more trapping.” “I’m

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2011

Despite my manic work schedule of late my positioning in southern New Jersey 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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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

North of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens is a middle class neighborhood, predominantly Italian-American, known as Howard Beach. Named for William J.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2014

I recently traveled to Oklahoma to help spread the word of wildlife, finding all kinds of adventure along the way. Since wildlife rehabilitators are in short supply wherever you go, we tend to forge internet friendships; then the fact that our closest compatriots may live thousands of miles away isn’t such a problem. No matter.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The problem of free-roaming cats — and their predation on birds and other wildlife — is hotly contested in communities across the country, and it triggered a lively exchange in the hearing room. New Jersey is Undecided. New Jersey has an interesting approach, at the sate level. Mole hills!

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JULY 27, 2012

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. Bring her down,” said Cathy. The plot thickened.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, otherwise known as Brigantine, on Sunday on my way home after the World Series of Birding I had a most marvelous encounter with a cooperative Clapper Rail. Amazingly, the looks were even better in my most recent encounter. Judge for yourself! At the Edwin B. … a.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2011

But the Brown Booby in Cape May has been around since mid-August and I had been chomping at the bit to get out to see it but I didn’t have my chance until the family was in California for a visit and I had to be in southern New Jersey anyway. Now, there are two options for seeing the booby in Cape May.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Here is the updated eBird heat map: Unsurprisingly for a site founded and run by two New Yorkers, the Empire State still boasts the highest number of species (363, up from 316). For example, my list of the Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for birding includes an excellent location in Minnesota ( Minnesota Valley NWR ).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2017

Last weekend we had an extended family weekend at a beach house in Wildwood, New Jersey, just north of Cape May. In practice, this means that I spent a lot of time in a blind staring at a salt marsh.

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JULY 18, 2013

Juvenile White Ibis in New Jersey – Corey Finger, 10,000 Birds. White-faced Ibis at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge – Larry Jordan, 10,000 Birds. Roseate Spoonbills at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge – Corey Finger, 10,000 Birds. Two Different White Ibises – Drew Weber, The Nemesis Bird.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2015

That was the first thing we–our New Jersey Audubon group of 11 birders, led by Scott Barnes–noted as we exited the airport. We saw a smaller member of the potoo family, Northern Potoo , Nyctibius jamaicensis , at Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge, boating and birding the Salado River. There was no snow. And, no snow.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Seaside Sparro w he watched for an extended period from a blind at Two Mile National Wildlife in Wildwood, New Jersey. Driving along the NYS Thruway during a picture perfect June morning delivered Ospreys soaring over Montezuma NWR. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

Corey encountered a bunch of winners, but 24 Common Redpolls at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, in almost the exact same spot he saw them a couple of years ago, feeding on birch inflorescence by the East Pond, were easily his best birds of the weekend. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

I was reminded of the American Redstart I saw foraging in New Jersey several years ago and hoped that this bird would prove as resilient as I had observed that redstart to be. We watched the bird for awhile as it foraged and though the injury was painful to contemplate for we humans the bird seemed to be getting by alright.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2018

New York City apartments don’t allow feeders to be hung from fire escapes (though I know certain birders that skirt that rule), and it wasn’t until I had already been birding for four-and-a-half years that I obtained a small yard in central New Jersey in which I could place a feeder or two or three.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2011

You are about to climb up onto the dike at Higbee Beach Wildlife Management Area and witness the morning flight. The whole area is alive with movement and chip notes but you can’t take the time to figure out what it is you are hearing and barely seeing because you have an even more difficult birding challenge ahead of you.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2018

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.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

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). California (297) is next, followed by Florida (227), Oregon (209), and New Jersey (199).

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

Originally from New Jersey, she has lived in South Carolina for over a decade, and was a great help identifying the shorebirds we found. The ecosystem is still affected by human-induced climate change and associated sea level rise and erosion, but remains a haven for a variety of wildlife in addition to birds. hours of walking.

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MAY 9, 2016

We headed north to the George Washington Bridge, west across New Jersey, west and then north through Pennsylvania, and back into New York at Binghamton where we turned west once again. En route we talked about all the things that birders tend to do, from twitches past to who’s a stringer.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Natural areas include Pelham Bay Park, Van Cortlandt Park, Woodlawn Cemetery, New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo. Most importantly, the section ends with a list of questions for future studies and recommendations for wildlife and habitat management. I didn’t grow up in the Bronx, but my best friend did.).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Even crazier, the Lower Hudson Christmas Bird Count, which includes parts of Bergen and Hudson Counties in New Jersey and most of Manhattan, also overlaps our count, but so far as I know no birders have ever ventured into Queens from Manhattan to lay claim to any turf. And if they did we would surely send them packing!).

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JULY 2, 2024

Fish and Wildlife Service biologist who lives in Fairbanks, and it is noted that many of these photos have never been published before. Dunne was director of the Cape May Bird Observatory and vice-president of the New Jersey Audubon Society for many years, till 2014. © 2024 by Pete Dunne and Kevin T.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2018

When I resumed birding on my own in my late 20s in Queens, I always looked forward to seeing the several pairs of Ospreys nesting at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, a sight made all the more welcome after I learned of their drastic decline in the 1950s and ’60s due to the use of the insecticide DDT, followed by a remarkable population recovery.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 11, 2008

It tends to be the Jersey natives who drive too fast and refuse to build fences in their backyards who view wildlife as the enemy. People who move out here from the city generally feel the same way.

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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 Once again attending the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2018

There are more than 550 national wildlife refuges in the United States, with at least one in every state and one within an hour drive of almost every major American city. Both birds and birders flock to national wildlife refuges. Bosque del Apache NWR (New Mexico). Forsythe NWR (New Jersey). Billy Frank Jr.

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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.

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JUNE 17, 2015

Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. National wildlife refuges provide premier outdoor recreational opportunities across the Nation.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

I have not heard any reports of Monk Parakeets at bird feeders in New York City, or in New Jersey, where they have a colony in Edgewater, Bergen County.) Document WEC257 of the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida / IFAS, [link]. ** Pruett-Jones, Stephen, et al. and Sam Logue.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I am familiar with the shorebird banding program in Peru, as the programs is run by CORBIDI, a small non-government organization (NGO) dedicated to the study and conservation of birds, other wildlife, and their habitats. I am an associate with this NGO and follow the progress of the banding program.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

I was also notified of a study of Brant behavior that is being done collectively by wildlife agencies from New Jersey, New York, and Canada. It was banded in Monmouth County, New Jersey, on 8 March of this year. By reporting the banded goose I gave one more data point to to this scientific effort.

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