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Juvenile Least Sandpipers Calidris minutilla

August 20, 2010 by Corey 4 Comments

Juvenile Least Sandpipers are among the most beautiful of shorebirds. Their gorgeous white-fringed feathers and propensity for allowing close approach combine to make them...

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Juvenile Short-billed Dowitchers Limnodromus griseus

August 18, 2010 by Corey 3 Comments

Short-billed Dowitchers are one of those species that, at least for me, fade into the background once I have seen my first of the...

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Random Sunning Catbird

August 15, 2010 by Corey 2 Comments

When leaving the East Pond of Jamaica Bay on Saturday we came across this sunning Gray Catbird. At first glance we thought it was...

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Food-Carrying Common Terns

August 14, 2010 by Corey 1 Comment

I could watch terns all day long. Flying, hunting, calling, preening, or just sitting around, I find terns fascinating. It just seems so improbable...

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Pectoral Sandpipers Calidris melanotos at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

August 6, 2010 by Corey 6 Comments

A recent visit to the East Pond of the Jamaica Bay got me up close and personal with quite a few species of shorebird,...

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Molting Juvenile Wilson’s Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor

August 4, 2010 by Corey 4 Comments

This year has been a good year to see Wilson’s Phalaropes at Jamaica Bay. There were several that stopped by this spring on their...

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American White Pelican at Jamaica Bay

July 18, 2010 by Corey 10 Comments

The American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos that was first reported from Jamaica Bay on Wednesday, 14 July, (and that I twitched on 15 July)...

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