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Photo Study Of Some Birds In The New Jersey Pine Barrens And E.B.Forsythe NWR (Brigantine), June 25th, 2010

We were able to get to Brig yesterday and saw lots of birds, especially 8 different Clapper Rails (Rallus longirostris). But on the way over, in the Pine Barrens, we were able to see and photograph Red-headed Woodpeckers (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) and a male Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra).

Red-headed Woodpeckers

Male Summer Tanager

Clapper Rail

And, of course, at Brig, we were forced to keep company
with the ubiquitous, nasty Greenhead Fly(Tabanus nigrovittatus)!

Species seen:

Double-crested Cormorant	Herring Gull	Carolina Wren
Great Blue Heron	Great Black-backed Gull	Marsh Wren
Great Egret	Gull-billed Tern	Eastern Bluebird
Snowy Egret	Common Tern	American Robin
Black-crowned Night Heron	Forster's Tern	Gray Catbird
Glossy Ibis	Black Skimmer	Northern Mockingbird
Canada Goose	Mourning Dove	Brown Thrasher
American Black Duck	Yellow-billed Cuckoo	Cedar Waxwing
Mallard	Red-headed Woodpecker	European Starling
Turkey Vulture	Downy Woodpecker	Common Yellowthroat
Osprey	Eastern Kingbird	Summer Tanager
Red-tailed Hawk	Purple Martin	Indigo Bunting
Peregrine Falcon	Tree Swallow	Seaside Sparrow
Clapper Rail	Barn Swallow	Song Sparrow
Killdeer	American Crow	Red-winged Blackbird
American Oystercatcher	Fish Crow	Brown-headed Cowbird
Willet	Tufted Titmouse	Orchard Oriole
Laughing Gull	White-breasted Nuthatch

To see a larger image of any of the birds below, please click on either the thumbnails or the captions...thanks!


A-Red-headedWoodpecker	A-Red-headedWoodpecker2	A-Red-headedWoodpecker3	A-Red-headedWoodpecker4	B-MaleSummerTanager1

B-MaleSummerTanager2	B-MaleSummerTanager3	B-MaleSummerTanager4	C-ClapperRail	C-ClapperRail2

C-ClapperRail3	C-ClapperRail4	C-ClapperRail5	C-ClapperRail6	C-ClapperRail7

C-ClapperRail8	C-TwoClapperRails	D-AGaggleOf AmericanOystercatchers	D-BlackSkimmer	E-Black-crownedNightHeron

E-Black-crownedNightHeron2	E-Black-crownedNightHeron3	F-EasternKingbird	F-MourningDove	F-MourningDove2

F-NorthernMockingbird1	F-MaleRed-wingedBlackbird	F-1stYearRed-wingedBlackbird	G-GreatEgret	G-GreatEgretFlies

G-SnowyEgret	G-SnowyEgret2	H-Willet1	H-Willet2	H-Willet4

Revised June 27th, 2010

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