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New York State’s First Common Greenshank

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Well, I made a list: Timber Point Country Club is in Suffolk County, New York, about forty-five minutes from my house in Queens provided traffic isn’t too bad. I had never seen a Common Greenshank in New York. With nothing particular on the agenda I could go see the bird! Why was I amazed?

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Crows, Contest Killing, and Communication

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Defenders of the gun club accused me of lying, of distorting facts, of being anti-hunting, of being an animal rights activist, of being allied with the dreaded Friends of Animals, of hiding my true agenda (gun control), and of being unconcerned that animal lovers were supposedly threatening members of the gun club with death.

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Birding Rockefeller State Park Preserve

10,000 Birds

This past Sunday was a hot sunny day in New York and the family and I took full advantage of it, exploring Rockefeller State Park Preserve, a pretty park in Westchester County, not too far north of the Bronx. No, I have no such diabolical agendas! Pure coincidence! We enjoyed butterflies, dragonflies, and sticks.

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No Snow on Long Island

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We switched up our agenda and decided to join Seth and Gene and a trio of Staten Islanders on a trip around Long Island looking for lingering rarities and anything else that we might manage to come across on a full day’s birding.

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Back from the West!

10,000 Birds

After sixteen days touring the interior west and west coast of the United States with my family I am back in New York City. The birds weren’t high on the agenda while we were in Wyoming but I still managed to see some. I didn’t have much light to work with but a male Western Tanager can’t be ignored.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

For that you can blame a cowardly food industry and a cynical consumer movement, willing to sacrifice lives to further its antinuclear agenda. Unfortunately, irradiated meat and poultry can’t be found on store shelves. Larry Katzenstein Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.,

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On Teaching Children

Animal Person

It just so happens that after I read Bea's comment from yesterday about reaching kids with our message I saw a New York Times article from today called " Where Little Chefs Learn the Art of Slicing and Dicing ," by Ann Farmer. Any other factories on the agenda? I don't think of that as a restriction.

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