Machi and Goshen’s last flight to Guadeloupe was not forgotten
The attached video by Amanda Dey, starts with shots fired at shorebirds in a shooting swamp on the French island of Guadeloupe. It was at this site that two whimbrels were shot last ...
Hunting Shorebirds in Guadeloupe
The hunting in Guadeloupe is very different than in French Guiana. Here hunters are better organized and command greater political power. They are skilled at using guns ...
the challege of the rice fields of Mana
Knots in a rice field lost to the seaOur work in French Guiana has proven to be fruitful. We found over 1700 red knots and at least 1000 turnstones in one location, in the rice ...
Hunting Shorebirds
I owe my carreer to the sport of hunting. As a young man, barely 12 year old, my father and I hunted pheasants, squirrels, rabbits and deer. I have to say for my part mostly ...
The Mystery of French Guiana
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Most of what I know about French Guiana comes from movies about Devils Island, the notorious Caribbean Island prison where the French housed their most heinous criminals. ...
Follow daily events on facebook
Follow daily events this season on Delaware Bay on the "Celebrating the Delaware Bay" Facebook page
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A recovery as slow as a horseshoe crab on a cold day
We begin our Delaware Bay Shorebird Project on both sides of the bay this week and as always, it’s a time to look at our program and see where we are and ask the question where ...
unraveling the texas knot
Fish killed from a red tide event on Padres Island TX. photo by Barbara KeelerAs David Newstead and I started our week of fieldwork on Padre Island National Seashore, ...
jobs, shorebirds and a sunny day on a South Carolina beach
The crew heading out to Davoe Bank, SCThe noonday sun bathed us with early but welcome warmth while we sat behind a dune on Davoe Bank, SC. A gentle breeze ...
A sky white with snows (part 2)
In my last blog I described the growing impact of exploding Snow Goose populations and asked what can be done about it.
Some will blanch to hear that hunting is, without question, ...
a sky white with snows
Greater Snow Geese cover the sky over Greenwich, NJ (Photo L Niles)Arctic nesting snow geese winter in great numbers in the Cohansey River drainage. Huge flocks, numbering in ...
nitrogen in our water
The drinking water on our property is high in nitrogen. This potentially dangerous, but common,Combine harvesting Monsanto soy in our field in Greenwich chemical must ...
Comparing San Francisco Bay and Delaware Bay- what we can learn
When I was a young man, I fished with my father, Joseph Niles, and my father-in-law, Bill Weigle, both great fishermen in an age of great fishing. In the 1960s, it would ...
Comparing San Francisco Bay and Delaware Bay – what we can learn
The fog was a thick as Our last day on San Francisco Bay surveying shorebird was a
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the bay by the city
San Francisco evokes an image that is all its own. The city and the surrounding landscape, that includes lovely places like Napa Valley as well as powerful economic engines like ...
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