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Little Egg Harbor is a brackish bay along the coast of southeast New Jersey. It was originally called Egg Harbor by the Dutch sailors because of the eggs found in nearby gull nests. The bay is part of the Intracoastal Waterway. The historical spelling for the bay is "Little Egg Harbour" as found on maps provide by Rutgers University: [1] 1706 ...
Little Egg Harbor Township is located in the 2nd Congressional District [80] and is part of New Jersey's 9th state legislative district. [ 81 ] [ 82 ] [ 83 ] For the 119th United States Congress , New Jersey's 2nd congressional district is represented by Jeff Van Drew ( R , Dennis Township ). [ 84 ]
The genus Egretta was introduced in 1817 by the German naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster with the little egret as the type species. [2] [3] The genus name comes from the Provençal French for the little egret, aigrette, a diminutive of aigron, "heron". [4] As with other heron groupings, the taxonomy of these birds has been a source of dispute.
Little blue heron. The little blue heron [note 1] (Egretta caerulea) is a small heron of the genus Egretta. It is a small, darkly colored heron with a two-toned bill. Juveniles are entirely white, bearing resemblance to the snowy egret. During the breeding season, adults develop different coloration on the head, legs, and feet.
The genus name comes from the Latin word ardea meaning "heron". [2] The type species was designated as the grey heron (Ardea cinerea) by George Robert Gray in 1840. [3] Some members of Ardea are clearly very closely related, such as the grey, great blue, and cocoi herons, which form a superspecies.
Police in Little Egg Harbor went to an East Hudson Drive home at 4:30 a.m. on Sept. 9 after receiving a report of shots fired in the area. Officers found a 36 year-old man with several gunshot ...
The Mullica River is a 50.6-mile-long (81.4 km) [1] river in southern New Jersey in the United States.The Mullica was once known as the Little Egg Harbor River.. The river provides one of the principal drainages into the Atlantic Ocean of the extensive Pinelands.