Join Joanna Burger and Michael Gochfeld as they guide readers to New Jersey’s most marvelous natural spectacles! From mating horseshoe crabs in the Delaware Bay to goldenclub and orchids at Web’s Mill Bog, the authors show us Garden State nature at its best. While New Jersey boasts far more than 25 nature spectacles, the authors have selected those that are the most dramatic, predictable, and characteristic of the state so readers can easily enjoy them over and over again. Being in the right place at the right time makes all the difference, so the guidebook is organized by season to ensure the best viewing.…mehr
Join Joanna Burger and Michael Gochfeld as they guide readers to New Jersey’s most marvelous natural spectacles! From mating horseshoe crabs in the Delaware Bay to goldenclub and orchids at Web’s Mill Bog, the authors show us Garden State nature at its best. While New Jersey boasts far more than 25 nature spectacles, the authors have selected those that are the most dramatic, predictable, and characteristic of the state so readers can easily enjoy them over and over again. Being in the right place at the right time makes all the difference, so the guidebook is organized by season to ensure the best viewing.
Joana Burger is a professor of ecology and evolution at Rutgers University as well as author of A Naturalist on the Jersey Shore, Oil Spills, and editor of Before and After an Oil Spill: The Arthur Kill (all available from Rutgers University Press). Michael Gochfeld is a professor at UWDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Burger and Gochfeld are coauthors of Butterflies of New Jersey: A Guide to Their Status, Distribution, Conservation, and Appreciation (available from Rutgers University Press).
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List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter of Events Maps SPRING 1 Chorusing Frogs in the Spring 2 Shad Run on the Delaware River 3 Glass Eels (American Eels) at Cheesquake 4 Spawning Horseshoe Crabs on Delaware Bay 5 Migrant Shorebirds at Delaware Bay 6 Mountain Laurel SUMMER 7 Nesting Herons at Avalon 8 Laughing Gulls at Stone Harbor 9 Nesting Least Terns and Black Skimmers 10 Fiddler Crabs at Low Tide 11 Butterflies in Gardens 12 Grass Pink and Other Orchids at Webb's Mill 13 American Lotus at Mannington Marsh 14 Coalescing Terns and Skimmers at Hereford Inlet FALL 15 Migrating Monarchs at Cape May 16 Migrant Hawks on the Inland Ridges 17 Migrant Hawks at Cape May 18 Migrant Songbirds at Cape May 19 Cranberries in the Pine Barrens 20 Bats at Hibernia Mine WINTER 21 Dwarf Pine Plains 22 Migrant Snow Geese at Brigantine 23 Wintering Gulls in Coastal New Jersey 24 Brant and Other Waterfowl on the North Shore 25 Swans at Whites Bog and Coastal Lakes 26 Other Spectacles Epilogue: People at the Mall Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Selected References Subject Index Taxonomic Index
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter of Events Maps SPRING 1 Chorusing Frogs in the Spring 2 Shad Run on the Delaware River 3 Glass Eels (American Eels) at Cheesquake 4 Spawning Horseshoe Crabs on Delaware Bay 5 Migrant Shorebirds at Delaware Bay 6 Mountain Laurel SUMMER 7 Nesting Herons at Avalon 8 Laughing Gulls at Stone Harbor 9 Nesting Least Terns and Black Skimmers 10 Fiddler Crabs at Low Tide 11 Butterflies in Gardens 12 Grass Pink and Other Orchids at Webb's Mill 13 American Lotus at Mannington Marsh 14 Coalescing Terns and Skimmers at Hereford Inlet FALL 15 Migrating Monarchs at Cape May 16 Migrant Hawks on the Inland Ridges 17 Migrant Hawks at Cape May 18 Migrant Songbirds at Cape May 19 Cranberries in the Pine Barrens 20 Bats at Hibernia Mine WINTER 21 Dwarf Pine Plains 22 Migrant Snow Geese at Brigantine 23 Wintering Gulls in Coastal New Jersey 24 Brant and Other Waterfowl on the North Shore 25 Swans at Whites Bog and Coastal Lakes 26 Other Spectacles Epilogue: People at the Mall Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Selected References Subject Index Taxonomic Index
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