New Jersey coastline buzzes as hub of wildlife migration
Migration
A female gold finch feeds on aster seeds at Cape May Point State Park. Cape May County acts like a natural funnel in the months of September and October as songbirds and hawks make their annual southern migration. Bird watchers from around the world come to the area to experience the event. Monday Oct. 11, 2010, (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)
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Crabs
A small flock of red knots, turnstones and sanderlings, fly by the shore at Kimbles Beach. The annual spawning of horseshoe crabs on the shores of the Delaware Bay, has been delayed because of recent bad weather. Cold water and strong winds from recent storms have prevented the crabs from coming to shore at high tides to lay eggs according to personal from the New Jersey Fish and Wildlife shorebird project. Horseshoe crabs eggs are an important food source for migrating shore birds like the ruddy turnstone and red knot. Tuesday May 20, 2008. (Press of Atlantic City Photo/Dale Gerhard)
Migration
Bird watchers scan the sky at Cape May Point State Park. Cape May County acts like a natural funnel in the months of September and October as songbirds and hawks make their annual southern migration. Bird watchers from around the world come to the area to experience the event. Monday Oct. 11, 2010, (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)
Migration
A yellow-rumped warbler at Cape May Point State Park. Cape May County acts like a natural funnel in the months of September and October as songbirds and hawks make their annual southern migration. Bird watchers from around the world come to the area to experience the event. Monday Oct. 11, 2010, (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)
Migration
Cape May County acts like a natural funnel in the months of September and October as songbirds and hawks make their annual southern migration. Bird watchers from around the world come to the area to experience the event. Visitors to the Hawk Watch platform at Cape May Point State Park, scans the skies for migrating hawks. Monday Oct. 11, 2010, (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)
Migration
A yellow-rumped warbler at Cape May Point State Park. Cape May County acts like a natural funnel in the months of September and October as songbirds and hawks make their annual southern migration. Bird watchers from around the world come to the area to experience the event. Monday Oct. 11, 2010, (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)
Migration
A yellow-rumped warbler at Cape May Point State Park. Cape May County acts like a natural funnel in the months of September and October as songbirds and hawks make their annual southern migration. Bird watchers from around the world come to the area to experience the event. Monday Oct. 11, 2010, (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)
Migration
Don Manchester (left) and Michael Brokenshire, both from Cape Cod, Mass,. have spent the last two weeks in Cape May watching hawks. Cape May County acts like a natural funnel in the months of September and October as songbirds and hawks make their annual southern migration. Bird watchers from around the world come to the area to experience the event. Monday Oct. 11, 2010, (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City)
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Monarch butterfly at the Cape May Point State Park on Sunday September 19, 2010.
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Monarch butterflies at the Cape May Point State Park on Sunday September 19, 2010.
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Monarch butterfly at the Cape May Point State Park on Sunday September 19, 2010.
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Snow geese land in a corn field along Roadstown Road in Hopewell Township on a frigid day, Monday Dec. 22, 2008.
seals
One of the two adult Harp seals, released into Great Bay on Feb. 12, 2005, looks up from its pool at the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine. The Stranding Center asked that we be very general as to the location of the release because the animals often hang around the area for a while and people sometimes try to find the seals if they know the spot where the animals may be.
seals
One of the two Harp seals, released into Great Bay lets out a final call, as if to say, "thanks", just before it swam away. The Stranding Center asked that we be very general as to the location of the release because the animals often hang around the area for a while and people sometimes try to find the seals if they know the spot where the animals may be. Sat. 2/12/05
seals
One of the two Harp seals, released into Great Bay looks around just before it swam away. The Stranding Center asked that we be very general as to the location of the release because the animals often hang around the area for a while and people sometimes try to find the seals if they know the spot where the animals may be. Sat. 2/12/05
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A immature osprey flaps its wings from its nest above the Maurice River in Millville.
Osprey Banding
A adult osprey circles overhead trying to chase off the banding party. Hans Toft, a natural science teacher at Cape May County Technical High School in Cape May Court House, is licensed by the state to band osprey chicks in the nest for the federal bird banding project. Each year at this time, Toft takes a group of his students into the back bay marshes between Cape May Court House and Stone Harbor, to check on the conditions of the chick and to band the young birds of prey. Wednesday Jun 30, 2010. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City).
Osprey Banding
An adult osprey flies from a perch as the banding party approach the nest. Hans Toft, a natural science teacher at Cape May County Technical High School in Cape May Court House, is licensed by the state to band osprey chicks in the nest for the federal bird banding project. Each year at this time, Toft takes a group of his students into the back bay marshes between Cape May Court House and Stone Harbor, to check on the conditions of the chick and to band the young birds of prey. Wednesday Jun 30, 2010. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City).
Osprey Banding
A adult osprey circles overhead trying to chase off the banding party. Hans Toft, a natural science teacher at Cape May County Technical High School in Cape May Court House, is licensed by the state to band osprey chicks in the nest for the federal bird banding project. Each year at this time, Toft takes a group of his students into the back bay marshes between Cape May Court House and Stone Harbor, to check on the conditions of the chick and to band the young birds of prey. Wednesday Jun 30, 2010. (Dale Gerhard/Press of Atlantic City).
Animal Extinctions
FILE - In a April 28, 2009 file photo, water pours off the tail of a humpback whale as it dives at the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Massachusetts. Efforts to save endangered animals are making a measureable difference, even as a fifth of the world's backboned species _ mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fishes _ are threatened with extinction, a huge new analysis says. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
Animal Extinctions
FILE - In a July 11, 2008 file photo, a trio of humpback whales break the surface of the water as they work together in a group behavior known as "bubble feeding" off the coast of Cape Cod near Provincetown, Mass. Efforts to save endangered animals are making a measureable difference, even as a fifth of the world's backboned species _ mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fishes _ are threatened with extinction, a huge new analysis says. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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