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Coquet Island's breeding population has increased for the sixth year in a row.

The Fall 2021 New Jersey Film Festival will feature two programs of award winners from this past Summer’s New Jersey International Film Festival. Films will be available for 24 hours on Sunday, October 10 via Video On Demand. Here is the line-up for Program 1:

Thanks to some nice folks who signed up for my Fall Migrants Field School, I actually got out birding this past weekend.

Over the last few weeks in July, I travelled on several nights to the Micksburg swamp in the hope of locating a Black-crowned Night Heron. Unfortunately, I was…

The Connecticut Audubon Society is asking people to keep an eye out for endangered birds at Milford Point and said coastal rangers will be patrolling the area....

Award is in recognition of the municipality's efforts to preserve vulnerable bird populations on Atlantic beaches.

Article content When I first moved to Renfrew County back in the late 1970s, there were many Purple Martin colonies in the area, the largest being on Mountainview Road. However, since then, the Martin population has seriously declined, and I am not aware of any existing colonies now in our area. In fact, it is almost a bird watching highlight to spot a Martin in the County. There are many factors for this decline, but the primary ones are the loss of summer habitat in South America and the fier...