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Cape May Songbird Stopover Project Internship

Cape May Songbird Stopover Project Internship New Jersey Audubon Research Department María Jesús Sepulveda Fall 2024 Cape May Songbird Stopover Project Staff, November 6, 2024 First Days on the Job My first day working for the Songbird Stopover Project began on September 8th at the South Cape May Meadows tagging…...

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Winter Gardening Tips

Winter Gardening Tips By Kristal Stahler Are you a restless winter gardener? It can be difficult to sit back and wait when it comes to your garden, but your winter garden often needs very little intervention! Luckily, there are some tasks you can tackle now if you can brave the…...

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New Jersey Audubon Eco-Travel: Minnesota in Winter-January 23-28, 2025 with Scott Barnes

By Scott Barnes, Senior Naturalist It was a blazing hot trip to the frozen bogs, spruce forests, and shores of Lake Superior on this winter’s Minnesota tour. Winter birding can vary from year to year at this northern latitude and our trip was most fortunate to coincide with an irruption…...

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Infection in Monarchs (O.e.) Migrating through Cape May Point, NJ

Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (O.e.) Infection in Monarchs Migrating through Cape May Point, NJ By Gayle Steffy, 2024 MMP Field Naturalist Ophryocystis elektroscirrha.  (O.e.) is a parasitic single celled organism known as a protozoan that infects monarch butterflies.  It is transferred from an infected adult monarch to a caterpillar by spores that…...

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Cape May Monarch Monitoring Project Annual Report 2024

By Anna Haggenjos and Gayle Steffy Project Overview The Monarch Monitoring Project (MMP) was founded in 1990 by naturalist Dick Walton and Dr. Lincoln Brower. This project, under New Jersey Audubon’s Cape May Bird Observatory, seeks to better understand the fall migration of monarch butterflies through Cape May Point and…...

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