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| Yellow-crowned Night-Herons, Ocean City Welcome Center |
I ranged widely over the state in April, trying for departing as well as arriving birds. Of all the places I went, though, I think my favorite was the Ocean City Welcome Center, which overlooks a night-heron rookery. I went there twice, two days in a row. The first time I was wowed by the number of nesting herons. The second time, when I went back with Shari, I spent my time appreciating the butter yellow crowns of the night-herons and made a game of finding the Black-crowned Night-Herons that tucked in, here and there, with their supposedly rarer relatives.
Brig got a number of visits, Heislerville two, and I spent more time in Double Trouble this month than I have in a couple of years. In all I listed 162 species for the month and added 51 years birds to the list. There were a few so-called rarities (really just early birds for the most part) though the American Golden-Plover was extremely unusual for the spring and the Black-headed Gull counts as a continuing rarity at Brig. Alas, the one true rarity of the month, the Little Egret at Heislerville, I missed.
Counties birded: Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Somerset
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Species First Listing
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Snow Goose
Shelter Cove Park
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Brant
Raritan Bay Waterfront Park
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Canada Goose
GSP MM 88
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Mute Swan
Lake Takanassee
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Wood Duck
Great Swamp NWR
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Gadwall
Manasquan-Brielle Rd
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American Black Duck Great Swamp NWR
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Mallard
GSP MM 88
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Blue-winged Teal Brig
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Northern Shoveler Silver Lake
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Northern Pintail Heislerville WMA
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Green-winged Teal Great Swamp NWR
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Ring-necked Duck Great Swamp NWR
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Greater Scaup
Raritan Bay Waterfront Park
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Lesser Scaup
Silver Lake
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Surf Scoter
Sandy Hook
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Black Scoter
Raritan Bay Waterfront Park
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Long-tailed Duck Island Beach SP--South Beach to Inlet
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Bufflehead
Raritan Bay Waterfront Park
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Hooded Merganser Great Swamp NWR
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Red-breasted Merganser Allenhurst--Corlies Ave
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Ruddy Duck
Silver Lake
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Wild Turkey
Colliers Mills WMA
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Red-throated Loon Great Bay Blvd
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Common Loon
Raritan Bay Waterfront Park
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Pied-billed Grebe Silver Lake
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Horned Grebe
Raritan Bay Waterfront Park
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Northern Gannet Raritan Bay Waterfront Park
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Double-crested Cormorant Sylvan Lake
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American Bittern Brig
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Great Blue Heron Great Swamp NWR
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Great Egret
Wreck Pond
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Snowy Egret
Holly Lake
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Little Blue Heron Island
Beach SP
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Tricolored Heron
Cattus Island County Park
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Black-crowned Night-Heron Ocean City Welcome Center
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Yellow-crowned
Night-Heron Ocean City Welcome Center
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Glossy Ibis
Shelter Cove Park
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Black Vulture
Great Swamp NWR
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Turkey Vulture Great Swamp NWR
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Osprey
Osborn Pond
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Northern Harrier Brig
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Sharp-shinned Hawk Sandy Hook
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Cooper's Hawk
Belleplain State Forest
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Bald Eagle
Double Trouble State Park
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Red-shouldered Hawk Great Swamp NWR
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Broad-winged Hawk
Cranberry Bogs--Dover Rd
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Red-tailed Hawk Osborn Pond
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Clapper Rail Brig
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American Coot
Lake Takanassee
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American Oystercatcher Island Beach SP
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Black-bellied Plover Island Beach SP
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American Golden-Plover Brig
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Semipalmated Plover
Heislerville WMA
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Killdeer
Raritan Bay Waterfront Park
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Whimbrel Brig
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Stilt Sandpiper
Heislerville WMA
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Sanderling
Raritan Bay Waterfront Park
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Dunlin
Island Beach SP
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Least Sandpiper Brig
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White-rumped Sandpiper
Heislerville WMA
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Pectoral Sandpiper Brig
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Semipalmated Sandpiper
Heislerville WMA
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Short-billed Dowitcher Brig
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Wilson's Snipe Shelter Cove Park
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Spotted Sandpiper
Double Trouble State Park
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Solitary Sandpiper
Cloverdale Farm
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Greater Yellowlegs GSP MM 88
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Willet
East Point Lighthouse
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Lesser Yellowlegs Island Beach SP
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Black-headed Gull Brig
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Laughing Gull
Deal Lake
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Ring-billed Gull Seven Presidents Park
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Herring Gull
Raritan Bay Waterfront Park
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Great Black-backed Gull Seven Presidents Park
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Least Tern
Heislerville WMA
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Gull-billed Tern Brig
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Caspian Tern Brig
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Forster's Tern Island Beach SP
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Black Skimmer
Heislerville WMA
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Mourning Dove
Great Swamp NWR
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Eastern Screech-Owl
Cattus Island County Park
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Chuck-will's-widow
Collinstown Rd
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Eastern Whip-poor-will 35
Sunset Rd
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Chimney Swift Brig
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird 35
Sunset Rd
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Belted Kingfisher Colliers Mills WMA
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Red-bellied Woodpecker Great Swamp NWR
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Downy Woodpecker Great Swamp NWR
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Hairy Woodpecker Double Trouble State Park
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Northern Flicker Great Swamp NWR
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Pileated Woodpecker
Belleplain State Forest
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American Kestrel Mettlers Rd. (Franklin Twp.)
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Merlin
Cranberry Bogs--Dover Rd
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Peregrine Falcon Island Beach SP
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Eastern Phoebe Great Swamp NWR
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Great Crested Flycatcher Brig
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Eastern Kingbird
Double Trouble State Park
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White-eyed Vireo
Double Trouble State Park
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Blue-headed Vireo
Double Trouble State Park
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Warbling Vireo
Colliers Mills WMA
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Blue Jay
Great Swamp NWR
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American Crow
Great Swamp NWR
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Fish Crow
Wawa, Jackson
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Common Raven
CR 539 near Bombing Range Rd
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Northern Rough-winged Swallow Sandy
Hook
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Purple Martin Brig
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Tree Swallow
Colliers Mills WMA
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Bank Swallow Sandy
Hook
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Barn Swallow Brig
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Carolina Chickadee 35 Sunset Rd
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Black-capped Chickadee Great Swamp NWR
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Tufted Titmouse 35 Sunset Rd
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Red-breasted Nuthatch Colliers Mills WMA
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White-breasted Nuthatch Great Swamp NWR
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House Wren Sandy
Hook
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Marsh Wren
Heislerville WMA
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Carolina Wren
Great Swamp NWR
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Whitesbog
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Golden-crowned Kinglet Great Swamp NWR
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet Whitesbog
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Eastern Bluebird Great Swamp NWR
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Hermit Thrush
Belleplain State Forest
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Wood Thrush
Collinstown Rd
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American Robin 35 Sunset Rd
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Gray Catbird
Collinstown Rd
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Brown Thrasher Brig
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Northern Mockingbird Seven Presidents Park
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European Starling Wawa, Jackson
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Cedar Waxwing
Island Beach SP
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Ovenbird Belleplain State Forest
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Louisiana Waterthrush
Belleplain State Forest
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Black-and-white Warbler
Colliers Mills WMA
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Common
Yellowthroat Brig
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Hooded Warbler
Double Trouble State Park
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Yellow
Warbler Amasa Landing Rd.
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Palm Warbler
Whitesbog
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Pine Warbler
Colliers Mills WMA
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Yellow-rumped Warbler Double Trouble State Park
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Yellow-throated
Warbler Belleplain State Forest
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Prairie Warbler
Colliers Mills WMA
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Seaside Sparrow Great
Bay Blvd
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Chipping Sparrow Great Swamp NWR
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Field Sparrow
Great Swamp NWR
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Fox Sparrow
Double Trouble State Park
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Dark-eyed Junco Great Swamp NWR
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White-throated Sparrow Colliers Mills WMA
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Savannah Sparrow Sandy Hook
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Song Sparrow
Great Swamp NWR
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Swamp Sparrow
Brig
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Eastern Towhee Island Beach SP
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Northern Cardinal Great Swamp NWR
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak Island
Beach SP
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Indigo Bunting Island
Beach SP
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Red-winged Blackbird Great Swamp NWR
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Rusty Blackbird Great
Swamp NWR
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Common Grackle Great Swamp NWR
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Boat-tailed Grackle Great Bay Blvd
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Brown-headed Cowbird Great Swamp NWR
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House Finch
Seven Presidents Park
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Purple Finch 35
Sunset Rd
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American Goldfinch Island Beach SP
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House Sparrow
Wawa, Jackson
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