Fall Banding Update: Week 5 (9/13 – 9/19)
Words by Laura-Marie Koitsch, 2018 Bander In Charge The fifth week of the inaugural season of NJ Audubon’s Cape May Bird Observatory banding station saw a continuation of the easterly…
The Best of Migration – Cape May School of Birding Workshops!
Cape May is world renowned for its fall bird and butterfly migration, involving spectacular numbers, diversity, views, and photographic opportunities – and Cape May School of Birding Workshops are an…
Fall Banding Update: Week 4 (9/6 – 9/12)
By Laura-Marie Koitsch, 2018 Bander In Charge The fourth week of the inaugural season of NJ Audubon’s Cape May Bird Observatory banding station began and ended the same way, with…
Mighty Monarchs
Yes I typically write about birds but when it comes to migration, gram for gram, nothing can out migrate the mighty Monarch, an insect weighing in at .25-.75 grams.That is…
Heads up, it’s time for Broad-wingeds
Mid- September means migrating Broad-winged Hawks. Between September 10 ad 20 tens of thousands of these stubby forest buteos will migrate across mostly n. New Jersey heading for winter territories…
FALL MIGRATION AT CAPE MAY with Louise Zemaitis – SEP 13-15
September straddles the migratory timetable; you’re not too late for shorebirds, not too early for hawks, and right on time for warblers and other neotropical migrants. Indeed, it is the…
Fall Banding Update: Week 3 (8/30 – 9/5)
By Laura-Marie Koitsch, 2018 Bander In Charge The third week of banding continued where the second week left off, closing early due to the heat and capturing a relatively small…
Grand North Dakota Tour
A journal of our recent Grand North Dakota Eco Travel Tour Author: Scott Barnes Trip Leaders: Scott Barnes and Linda Mack July 6: Arrival in Bismarck; evening orientation July 7:…
Fall Banding Update: Week 2 (8/23 – 8/29)
By Laura-Marie Koitsch, 2018 Bander In Charge The second week of NJ Audubon’s CMBO 2018 fall banding season started off with our biggest day yet. The previous day, August 22nd,…
Fall Banding Update: Week 1 (8/15 – 8/22)
By Laura-Marie Koitsch, 2018 Bander In Charge On Wednesday, August 15th, staff and volunteers from New Jersey Audubon’s Cape May Bird Observatory (CMBO) & Cellular Tracking Technologies (CTT) worked tirelessly…
NJ Audubon Goes To Cuba
New Jersey Audubon Eco-Travel trips are not just about beautiful wildlife and habitat. The tours are carefully selected by New Jersey Audubon staff and crafted to connect our participants to…
Morning Flight 2018 – Starts Tomorrow!
Fall is here – that’s right, Morning Flight is starting on Aug. 1st this year, instead of the usual Aug. 16th. We’re trying to better understand and quantify the early…
A Night for Moths!
As part of National Moth Week, we held an evening event on July 24th along the Ryan De Witt Memorial Trail at the Northwood Center. We were delighted, not only…
NJ Audubon Adirondack Tour
2018 NJ Audubon Adirondack Tour complete. We faced some challenges this year, but time spent in the largest wilderness area in the northeast is always rewarding, especially w/ a great…
New Jersey Audubon Referenced in New Textbook by Renowned Forest Ecologists
When one talks about THE experts of modem day ecological forestry all roads lead to Dr. Jerry Franklin and Dr. K. Norman Johnson. Their recent work, Ecological Forest Management, outlines the…
Wild Northern Bobwhite Released for 4th Consecutive Year in NJ Pinelands!
(March 2018, Chatsworth, NJ): For the fourth consecutive year wild Northern Bobwhite quail were translocated from Georgia to the New Jersey Pinelands, as part of a multi-state initiative to re-establish Northern…
Prescribed Burning in Full Swing at Northern Bobwhite Restoration Initiative Site
As part of forest stewardship activities at the site of the Northern Bobwhite Restoration Initiative, prescribed fires are being implemented this winter as a tool to maintain forest health, habitat…
PRAYING MANTIS – INDISCRIMINATE PREDATOR
Hiking in a meadow in Sussex County over the weekend, I came upon a small semi-hard grayish-yellow mass attached to a goldenrod stem. This “foam-like” cube was an egg case…
Shortleaf Pine an Important Component to NJ’s Forests
This past week NJ Audubon’s Stewardship Department presented an overview of the Bobwhite Quail Restoration Initiative and the project’s tie in with the National Shortleaf Pine Initiative at the 4th…
New Jersey Audubon Receives Two Awards for Delaware River Watershed Initiative Efforts
For the third time in four years, the New Jersey Audubon Stewardship Department has won the prestigious “Firman E. Bear Ecological Excellence Award,” given by the New Jersey Chapter of…
The Tale of two fields: Building Soil Health & Improving Water Quality with Cover Crops and No-Till
Photos & Text by Kristen Meistrell Every season, farmers across the Garden State tend to their crops while preparing for next season’s harvest. For some, part of this process involves…
Pine Island Cranberry Co. Receives NJ’s First NBCI Firebird Award
Bill Haines, Jr. owner and CEO of Pine Island Cranberry Company (PICC) of Chatsworth, NJ was the recipient of New Jersey’s first ever National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative’s (NBCI) National Fire…
FIRST BOBWHITE QUAIL NESTS DISCOVERED
New Jersey Audubon has been steadfastly working, with its project collaborators (Tall Timbers Research Station, the University of Delaware, Pine Island Cranberry Company, Pine Creek Forestry and the NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife) over…
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Bobwhite Nest For Third Consecutive Year At NJA Pine Barren Study Site
The first quail nest of 2017 was discovered by NJA’s researchers at the Pine Island Cranberry Study Site in Chatsworth, Burlington County. The nest, as well as three more discovered…
Tour of Hortulus Farm & Garden Connects People with Nature
“Inspiration” was the word of the day as NJ Audubon lead a special outing with friends and members to the much celebrated Hortulus Farm and Garden. Set amongst the diverse…
SNAGGED – DEAD WOOD FOR WILDLIFE
As I mowed the lawn in my front yard a commotion of chirps and squawks filled the air above me as I passed under a “snag” tree that I had…
Proactive Forestry to Counter Loss of Ash Trees
Forests in New Jersey have experienced the negative impacts of pathogens, pests, and diseases over the years, many of which target specific species or genus of trees. One pest that…
Keeping Common Species Common
When thinking of what is “common”, it suggests things that one perceives as being familiar or ordinary or perhaps even not special in any kind of way. Sometimes these things…
FIGHTN’ FEMELSCHLAGERS ENCOUNTER LITTLE EGRET AND MORE AT WSB
The NJA Stewardship Department World Series of Birding team, The Fightn’ Femelschlagers, had a great day out in South Jersey participating in the 34th Annual World Series of Birding racking…
DRWI RIPARIAN BUFFER RESTORATIONS INSTRUMENTAL IN CLEAN WATER IN HIGHLANDS REGION
As part of the Delaware River Watershed Initiative (DRWI) New Jersey Audubon (NJA) supplied, and provided labor to install, over 1,900 native trees and shrubs to five different riparian restoration projects in the NJ…
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Wild Northern Bobwhite Released in Pine Barrens
Northern Bobwhite quail were released for the third consecutive year at the Pine Island Cranberry property as part of the multi-state initiative to re-establish Northern Bobwhite in the Mid-Atlantic States.…
Pastures Can Provide Habitat for Grassland Birds!
Grasslands in the eastern United States rank as one of the country’s most endangered ecosystems. Populations of many grassland birds in North America have declined significantly during the last 30…
Clean Water Essential to US All
A magnificent sight caught my eye this morning on my drive into work. There, perched high above the mighty Musconetcong River in all its glory, a Bald Eagle, sat motionless…
NJ Audubon and USDA Staff Participate in Northeast Organic Farming Association’s Winter Conference
Written by Brittany Dobrzynski* During the last weekend of January, NJ Audubon and USDA Natural Resources Conservation Services staff participated in the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey’s Winter…
Permanent Link to Bird Diversity Flourishes in Forest Regeneration Areas
According to the Golden-winged Warbler Project (GWWP), a conservation initiative coordinated by Indiana University of PA- Research Institute, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the American Bird Conservancy and the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), “since 2012,…
Mannington Mills Improves Water Quality & Soil Health on Working Lands
During a cold and wintery weekend in early December 2016, over 80 volunteers put on their hats and gloves and came out to help New Jersey Audubon’s Stewardship staff plant…
Bald Eagle Saved at Quail Project Site
An injured immature Bald Eagle had luck on its side yesterday, when employees at Pine Island Cranberry Company (PICC) found it on the ground by chance while working to winterize…
Snow Geese Arrive At Wattles Stewardship Center
The first Snow Geese of the season arrived yesterday (November 29, 2016) at the Wattles Stewardship Center in Port Murray, Warren County, NJ. The ten radiantly white birds stood out,…
NJA Wattles Center and Old Farm Preserve Receive Recognition from National Geographic
The New Jersey Audubon Wattles Stewardship Center and the NJA Old Farm Preserve, (both located in Warren County), have received recognition by National Geographic as Geotourism destination areas under the…
NJ Bobwhite Quail Translocation Project Gets Exposure on National Level
University of Delaware graduate research students, Kaili Stevens (MS research assistant) and Philip Coppola (Ph.D. research assistant), who are working with NJ Audubon at the Pine Island Cranberry Bobwhite Quail…
Bobwhite Quail Still Going Strong at Pine Island Cranberry Study Site
While performing mammalian predator abundance surveys at the Pine Island Cranberry Bobwhite Quail Translocation Study Site this past week, John Parke of NJ Audubon joined University of Delaware Quail Project…
NJ Audubon Bi-annual Sanctuary Visits: Bartlett’s Branch
John McPhee wrote a great book, The Pine Barrens, about the biology, history and people of the pines. He describes things like this….cars that had a purpose and sometimes left…
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