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The best places for waterfowl and shorebirds were the coastal sloughs, where low tide exposed mud for huge flocks of hungry migrants. American avocets and black-necked stilts, willets and yellowlegs, ...

SOUTH ROCKWOOD, MICH. -- A Michigan birdwatcher made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery this weekend when he spotted a bird known as a common redshank in a marsh near Detroit, a few thousand miles from ...

A female ruff, also known as a reeve, has been spotted multiple times in Hampton over the last couple of weeks.>> Download the FREE WMUR app The reeve, a Eurasian bird that tends to stray into North ...

Eurasian coots are round, black waterbirds with distinctive, chicken-like feet. Each year, these birds typically build new, bowl-shaped nests using leaves, rushes and reeds. But, while nesting in ...

A bird much more commonly found in northern Europe and Asia was spotted in New Hampshire's Great Bay last week.The immature Eurasian wigeon was seen in the southeast part of Great Bay on Sept. 22, ...

Descriptions of her species read like something out of a superhero comic book: Stealthy at night, a piercing gaze, and dramatic in flight. Mostly though, Uhu the Eurasian eagle-owl will live on in ...

-- especially shorebird aficionados -- last week was a great time to look for avian visitors. , in Cumberland County. The Garden State has about 20 records for fork-tailed flycatcher, a bird that has ...

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