Bird Quest Training Sessions
These 11 free, friendly sessions are intended to help you improve your birding skills, and to introduce you to a variety of bird habitats around Gloucester County. You are welcome to attend regardless of whether you are participating in the main May 2nd event. We encourage you to sign up on Meetup.com (see the link on each session) so the trip leaders know how many people to expect.
Birding Basics
Learn the basics of good birding and the tools of the trade. Discover the world of birding from bird guides to binoculars, birding etiquette to [...]
South Jersey Technology Park
The large field on this 6.68 acre site is bordered by woodlands and a farm. The open area is great for woodland and grass-nesting birds [...]
Tall Pines State Preserve
Gloucester County’s only state park, this former golf course has ponds, marsh and wetlands, and patches of eastern hardwood forest. More than seventy species of [...]
Edelman Fossil Park
Woodlands, meadows and drainage pond will have you looking for native NJ birds that thrive in these habitats and arriving spring migrants along the newly [...]
Piney Hollow Preserve
Wetlands forested with Atlantic white cedar, uplands covered with mostly oak-pine forest and the 40 acre McCarthy’s Lake — once a cranberry bog — are [...]
Glassboro Woods WMA
This wildlife management area, which is a 2,337 acre forest accompanied by swamps and open fields, boasts chances to see and hear a vast variety [...]
Birding By Ear (Classroom)
In a classroom setting, learn mnemonics and “tricks of the trade” to identify birds by their songs and calls. This is a great session for [...]
Washington Lake Park
This is the largest municipal park in New Jersey and in spring it comes alive with songbird and raptor migrants adding to the year-round residents. [...]
Ceres Park
Walk where the first tyrannosaur in the world was found in this 52-acre nature preserve known for forested trails, cedar swamps, and lakes formed from [...]
Greenwich Lake Park
The paved and unpaved trails here explore various habitats and wind past lagoons and waterways that drain eventually into the Delaware River. Look for Green [...]
George Eldridge Trail (Wenonah)
Eldridge Trail is part of the Wenonah Conservation Area, a ring of green that extends nearly the entire circumference of the town. Look and listen [...]
Bird Quest is sponsored by the Gloucester County Nature Club, a private, non-profit organization of people who share a common interest, curiosity, and love of the natural world.