With the help of Bergen Audubon's Denise Farrell, we have compiled a list seen by at least one boat of birders on our pontoon boat birding cruise last Tuesday.Hightlights included a Least Bittern and a Green Heron and the Ospreys.
Full list follows
Bird List
NJMC Pontoon Boat Trip From River Barge park
2 hours, 6 miles, 40 observers
32 species total
Comments: This was a birding cruise sponsored by NJ Meadowlands Commission and Bergen County Audubon Society.
Species
Canada Goose
American Black Duck
Mallard
Double-crested Cormorant
Least Bittern
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Red-tailed Hawk
Lesser Yellowlegs
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Forster's Tern
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
American Crow
Barn Swallow
Marsh Wren
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Common Yellowthroat
Red-winged Blackbird
House Sparrow
Denise is awesome!
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