Adventures in birding, radiating from central Jersey
This site is a compendium of observations on birds, birding and the flora and fauna inhabiting my world, with its axis in Area Code 609.
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A one-bird day at Abbott Marshlands
The Nor’easter finally churned away from New Jersey, and the rain fizzled out early this afternoon as I was on my way to John A. Roebling Park at Abbott Marshlands. I’d seen recent reports on e-Bird of Northern shovelers and hoped I’d find one. No such luck. After better than 48 hours of rain, the…
Maya Lin installation draws attention to threats to birds, other wildlife
The Nor’easter storm churning along the Atlantic Coast is keeping this birder indoors this weekend. I’ve turned my attention to a new exhibit at Princeton University that elegantly draws attention to threats to nature and how to respond to them. The exhibition “What Is Missing? What If?” opened this week in the newly opened environmental…
Starlings have surprising charms
Considered pests by many, European starlings won’t likely to top anyone’s favorite birds list beyond the Shakespeare fan who brought them to the United States in 1890. I like Shakespeare but I’m less enthused by starlings. I dismissively refer to them as “Euro trash,” but I usually hold a beat and then scold myself being…
Adding birdsong audio to e-Bird just got easier
Our friends at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have done it again: given us birders a faster and easier way to participate in the citizen science of the e-Bird mobile app. The lab announced at the beginning of the month that sound clips of bird songs and calls can be uploaded directly to e-Bird from…
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