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| Black Skimmer, Brig The objective correlative of June birding |
The rarities have been written about below--in that regard it was great month, with LITTLE GULL, Little Egret, Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Purple Gallinule, and Black-bellied Whistling Duck among the rare birds chased and found. Little Gull, along with the GREAT SHEARWATER I saw at Cape May, were lifers, so a number of "interesting" days were interspersed with the walking around days. Actually, I think the best day I had was the 2nd day of the month when I took a long trek through Colliers Mills and found all the colorful and/or localized birds to be found there: Red-headed Woodpecker, Scarlet Tanager, Indigo Bunting, Blue Grosbeak, Warbling Vireo, and Grasshopper Sparrow. I ended the month there today and only found the last two.
June is also the one month that I bird NJ top to bottom--a couple of trips up to the Delaware Water Gap and a couple of trips down to Cape May. All that traveling, plus a couple of day trips to the state of Delaware, brought my month list to 160, which is impressive, since, according to eBird, for the previous 4 Junes I have averaged only 134 species per month. Doldrums indeed!
Counties Birded
Delaware: Kent
New Jersey: Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean, Sussex, Warren
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Species First
Sighting
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Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Shunpike Rd. pond
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Canada Goose
Stanley H. 'Tip' Seaman County Park
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Mute Swan
Forsythe-Barnegat
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Wood Duck
Colliers Mills WMA
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American Black Duck Old Mine Road IBA
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Mallard
Old Mine Road IBA
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Northern Shoveler Ocean
City Preserve
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Black Scoter
Cape May Point SP
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Common Merganser Old Mine Road IBA
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Northern Bobwhite Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
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Wild Turkey
35 Sunset Rd
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Red-throated Loon
Barnegat Lighthouse SP
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GREAT
SHEARWATER Cape May Point SP
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Double-crested Cormorant Barnegat Lighthouse SP
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Brown Pelican
Barnegat Lighthouse SP
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Least Bittern Mercer
Corporate Park
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Great Blue Heron Great Bay Blvd
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Great Egret
Holly Lake
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Little Egret
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
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Snowy Egret
Holly Lake
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Little Blue Heron Forsythe-Barnegat
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Tricolored Heron Great Bay Blvd
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Green Heron
Lakehurst NAES
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Black-crowned Night-Heron
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Glossy Ibis
Great Bay Blvd
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Black Vulture
Old Mine Road IBA
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Turkey Vulture Great Bay Blvd
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Osprey
Great Bay Blvd
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Northern Harrier Smyrna Leipsic Rd
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Cooper's Hawk
Forest Resource Education Center
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Bald Eagle
Old Mine Road IBA
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Red-shouldered Hawk Old Mine Road IBA
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Broad-winged Hawk Old Mine Road IBA
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Red-tailed Hawk Colliers Mills WMA
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King Rail Mercer Corporate Park
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Clapper Rail
Great Bay Blvd
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Purple Gallinule Ocean
City Preserve
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Black-necked Stilt Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
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American Avocet
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
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American Oystercatcher Great Bay Blvd
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Black-bellied Plover Brig
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Semipalmated Plover Great Bay Blvd
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Piping Plover
Barnegat Lighthouse SP
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Killdeer
Colliers Mills WMA
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Upland Sandpiper
Lakehurst NAES
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Ruddy Turnstone Great Bay Blvd
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Dunlin
Great Bay Blvd
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Least Sandpiper Great Bay Blvd
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White-rumped Sandpiper Brig
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Semipalmated Sandpiper Holly Lake
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Short-billed Dowitcher Brig
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Greater Yellowlegs Great Bay Blvd
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Willet
Great Bay Blvd
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Lesser Yellowlegs Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
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Black-headed Gull Brig
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LITTLE GULL Bombay Hook National
Wildlife Refuge
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Laughing Gull
Holly Lake
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Ring-billed Gull Brig
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Herring Gull
Great Bay Blvd
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Great Black-backed Gull Great Bay Blvd
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Least Tern
Great Bay Blvd
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Gull-billed Tern Brig
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Caspian Tern
Brig
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Common Tern
Brig
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Forster's Tern Holly Lake
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Black Skimmer
Great Bay Blvd
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Rock Pigeon
Union Transportation Trail
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Mourning Dove
Holly Lake
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo Colliers Mills WMA
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Black-billed Cuckoo Colliers Mills WMA
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Barred Owl
Lakehurst NAES
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Common Nighthawk
Lakehurst NAES
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Eastern Whip-poor-will 35 Sunset Rd
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Chimney Swift
Mercer Corporate Park
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird Old Mine Road IBA
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Belted Kingfisher Colliers Mills WMA
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Red-headed Woodpecker Colliers Mills WMA
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Red-bellied Woodpecker 35 Sunset Rd
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Downy Woodpecker 35 Sunset Rd
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Hairy Woodpecker Cattus Island County Park
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Northern Flicker Colliers Mills WMA
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Pileated Woodpecker Old Mine Road IBA
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American Kestrel Lakehurst NAES
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Peregrine Falcon Brig
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Eastern Wood-Pewee Great Bay Blvd
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Acadian Flycatcher Barnegat Lighthouse SP
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Alder Flycatcher Great
Bay Blvd
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Willow Flycatcher Great Bay Blvd
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Least Flycatcher Old
Mine Road IBA
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Eastern Phoebe Old Mine Road IBA
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Great Crested Flycatcher 35 Sunset Rd
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Eastern Kingbird Great Bay Blvd
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Fork-tailed Flycatcher Cape
May Point SP
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White-eyed Vireo Brig
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Yellow-throated
Vireo Old Mine Road IBA
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Warbling Vireo Colliers Mills WMA
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Red-eyed Vireo Colliers Mills WMA
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Blue Jay
35 Sunset Rd
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American Crow
Old Mine Road IBA
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Fish Crow
35 Sunset Rd
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Horned Lark
Lakehurst NAES
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Northern Rough-winged Swallow Old Mine Road IBA
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Purple Martin
Brig
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Tree Swallow
Great Bay Blvd
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Bank Swallow
Delaware Water Gap NRA
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Barn Swallow
Great Bay Blvd
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Carolina Chickadee 35 Sunset Rd
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Black-capped Chickadee Worthington State Forest
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Tufted Titmouse 35 Sunset Rd
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White-breasted Nuthatch 35 Sunset Rd
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House Wren
Old Mine Road IBA
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Marsh Wren
Forsythe-Barnegat
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Carolina Wren
Colliers Mills WMA
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Colliers Mills WMA
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Eastern Bluebird Colliers Mills WMA
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Veery
Old Mine Road IBA
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Wood Thrush
Colliers Mills WMA
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American Robin Stanley H. 'Tip' Seaman County Park
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Gray Catbird
Great Bay Blvd
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Brown Thrasher Colliers Mills WMA
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Northern Mockingbird Cattus Island County Park
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European Starling 35 Sunset Rd
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Cedar Waxwing
Colliers Mills WMA
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Ovenbird
Colliers Mills WMA
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Worm-eating Warbler Worthington State Forest
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Louisiana Waterthrush Worthington State Forest
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Blue-winged Warbler Old Mine Road IBA
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Black-and-white Warbler Colliers Mills WMA
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Common Yellowthroat Great Bay Blvd
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Hooded Warbler Old Mine Road IBA
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American Redstart Old Mine Road IBA
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Cerulean Warbler Old
Mine Road IBA
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Northern Parula Old Mine Road IBA
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Blackburnian Warbler Stokes Forest
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Yellow Warbler Great Bay Blvd
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Chestnut-sided Warbler Old Mine Road IBA
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Pine Warbler
Old Mine Road IBA
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Prairie Warbler Colliers Mills WMA
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Grasshopper Sparrow Colliers Mills WMA
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Saltmarsh Sparrow Great Bay Blvd
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Seaside Sparrow Great Bay Blvd
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Chipping Sparrow 35 Sunset Rd
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Field Sparrow
Colliers Mills WMA
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Song Sparrow
Holly Lake
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Eastern Towhee 35 Sunset Rd
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Scarlet Tanager Colliers Mills WMA
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Northern Cardinal 35 Sunset Rd
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak Old Mine Road IBA
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Blue Grosbeak
Colliers Mills WMA
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Indigo Bunting Colliers Mills WMA
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Red-winged Blackbird Holly Lake
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Eastern Meadowlark
Lakehurst NAES
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Common Grackle Colliers Mills WMA
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Boat-tailed Grackle Great Bay Blvd
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Brown-headed Cowbird 35 Sunset Rd
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Orchard Oriole Colliers Mills WMA
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Baltimore Oriole Colliers Mills WMA
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House Finch
35 Sunset Rd
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American Goldfinch Colliers Mills WMA
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House Sparrow
Stanley H. 'Tip' Seaman County Park
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