You’ve probably seen numerous reports that, due to the pandemic, the year 2020 has become the year of the bird watcher. Many people have taken to bird-watching in their back yards. Some have taken it quite seriously and have purchased field guides, binoculars, and cameras with telephoto lenses. Still others have even become [gulp!] listers, keeping track of when and where they’ve encountered every species for the first time. If you want to join this effort, you don’t have to go far to find them: approximately 490 different bird species can be found in the State of New Jersey. More than 285 species have been found in the parts of Bergen and Hudson counties surrounding the NJ Meadowlands alone!