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New Jersey Birding Trail

© Sidney Maddock

Where: New Jersey

What: Trails in the northern Meadowlands district, covering 1,168 acres of publicly accessible parks, and nine driving routes in the Delaware Bayshore counties of Cape May, Cumberland and Salem in southern New Jersey.

Look for: Red Knot, as well as Semipalmated Plovers, Whimbrels, Dunlin, Short-billed Dowitchers, Least Sandpipers and Black-bellied Plovers during migration. Summer nesters include Least and Common Terns and Piping Plovers along the seashore, and a variety of passerines in our woodlands, where Scarlet and Summer Tanagers, along with Hooded, Worm-eating, Black-and-white and Prothonotary Warblers raise their young.

Contact: Lillian Armstrong (609-861-0700, ext. 22), http://www.njwildlifetrails.org/Index.htm



 

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