The contest to guess the correct number of boreal birds that the Boreal Birders identified during the 2005 World Series of Birding on May 14 closed on May 18.
The Boreal Birders found 116 species of boreal birds out of the total of 197 species identified. These included species like Common Loon, Bay-breasted, Blackpoll, and Canada [...]

Posted by: Jeff Wells
Today was my last chance in the north to do a dry run. The morning started cold–I actually had to pull out my winter hat and gloves! I don’t know if it was the cold or the lack of wind but the birds in the grasslands seemed to become more active sooner [...]

Posted by: Derek Lovitch
Dave Sherwood and I left the southern home base in Millville, after enjoying another spectacular sunrise over the Maurice River. If I sent you a picture, and asked you to name this place you likely wouldn’t come up with New Jersey! But, New Jersey is much more than just the [...]

Posted by: Jeff Wells
My alarm rings at 4 AM again this morning but today when I step into the dark parking lot there is no one else to be seen. By about 4:30 I am on top of a small hill trying to listen to sounds from marsh birds in the Black Dirt marsh. Nearby [...]

Another whirlwind day down in SoJersey! Out of the house pre-dawn and worked the Delaware Bayshore for lingering ducks (saw very important things like a Pintail, a pair of Gadwall, and a single American Wigeon) and finally a White-rumped Sandpiper. Ran into Pete Dunne, the founder of the event, who I know from [...]

Posted by: Derek Lovitch, team member
Today was a long day of riding roads and scouting pine barrens and overgrown fields for some of the southern specialties, such as Kentucky Warbler, Prothonotary Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, Blue Grosbeak, Orchard Oriole, Summer Tanager, Bobwhite, Yellow-breasted Chat and others.
My planned route was way too long (mostly due to traveling [...]

Posted by: Jeff Wells, team leader
Today is a 4 AM wakeup. A few minutes after waking, I step out into total darkness in the hotel parking lot and find Will Russell sipping his first cup of coffee of the day. We exchange our plans quickly and find that we will likely be doing the same [...]

Posted by: Jeff Wells, team leader
After a morning of birding for the camera in Evergreen Cemetary (a favorite local birding locale) in Portland, Maine, Derek and I headed south for New Jersey on Monday. Derek was worried about the team’s luck when we didn’t have time to stop at his favorite birding spot–Fort Foster in [...]

Posted by: Jeff Wells, team leader
Guess how many boreal bird species–from the 260 featured in the boreal bird guide (www.borealbirds.org/birds.html)–that the Boreal Birders will see during the World Series of Birding?
The persons coming closest to the correct number will win a copy of The Birdwatcher’s Companion by Christopher Leahy courtesy of Princeton University Press [...]

The World Series of Birding is one of the top competitive birding events in the world with 70-80 teams competing annually. The event is a 24-hour (midnight-to-midnight) marathon of skill, planning, and endurance. Teams of 3-5 birders compete to identify more species of birds in the allotted time than any other team within the state [...]