MIf birds are good judges of excellent climate, Cape May has the finest climate in the United States, for it has the greatest variety of birds. —Alexander Wilson Few places in North America have been birded longer or have more birding advocates than Cape May, New Jersey. Fewer still can offer better bird watching. From […]
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Birding New Jersey New Jersey squeezes diverse habitat in its small area: piedmont plateau in the northeast, highlands in the northwest, coastal plain in the east, and pine barrens in the south-central. But the dominant features of the state are its southern and eastern borders: the Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Coast, where shorebirds and
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Some of my “civilian” (nonbirding) friends wince when they hear the words yoked together. Winter? Birding? Isn’t that an oxymoron? Isn’t it cold, windy, nasty? Don’t all the birds flee south by Halloween? And if we had any sense, shouldn’t we follow? Yes, I answer, it can get cold, and some days the wind is
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It’s the smallest state in the Union, but Rhode Island still boasts 384 miles of tidal shoreline along the Atlantic Ocean and Narragansett Bay—enough coastline to give it the nickname the Ocean State. Little Rhody is mostly flat and pockmarked with lakes. Its forests are part of the Northeast coastal ecoregion. eBird reports document 395
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