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JUNE 7, 2016

The American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New York by Corey Finger, birder, blogger, and co-emperor of 10,000 Birds, with photographs by Brian E. If you’ve never birded New York State, send me a brief description of a bird you would like to see in the state and why. It’s here! It’s here!

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NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It’s not anywhere near as interesting as one of those amazing pink-winged Wallcreepers showing up in New York. Well maybe it’s just a Brown Creeper on a wall. But that’s still interesting, right? I was out there doing a seawatch hoping to find something rare going past.

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JUNE 4, 2014

Greg Lawrence is an ace New York birder who is one of the lucky (?) He is a former President of the New York State Young Birders Club and a guy you want with you if you are trying to identify a rarity. Point blank looks at New York state’s first record of the endangered Kirtland’s Warbler !

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

I drove up to where now only two cars were parked, and saw Steve and Isaac, two New York birding friends, stood in the middle of the median. In New York State! Had something happened? Had the bird moved to a different area? Maybe it was eaten by that Merlin? Or by a cat!

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MAY 30, 2011

New York City is well known as a city of immigrants so it makes sense that the only lizards living within the five boroughs are immigrants as well. It may seem odd to go searching for lizards in New York City but the idea of seeing the lizards in the major metropolitan area that is Gotham is too good to pass up for long.

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AUGUST 18, 2014

They were: Audubon’s Shearwater – This is the last regularly occurring shearwater in New York State that I had yet to ever lay eyes on. He reported it as such but the New York State Avian Records Committee decided that they couldn’t really rule out that it was a Zino’s Petrel. ” Yes!

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JANUARY 1, 2012

Oh, right, the South Nassau Christmas Bird Count was today and a huge number of New York City and Long Island birders take part in that count every year – and none of them were on their own territory anymore! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How did so many birders get to Point Lookout so quickly? Does it matter?

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NOVEMBER 24, 2014

After all, this was only the second record from New York State and the first wasn’t seen by many as it was a one-day wonder back in 2007. Sadly, despite the best efforts of a who’s who among New York’s birding scene, the bird was not refound. Cassin’s Kingbird in New York State!

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JUNE 13, 2016

On Sunday, 5 June, word of Jay McGowan finding a Gargeney at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in western New York State hit the listservs. The long ride back to New York City was uneventful but much more upbeat than it was after the Gray Kingbird dip. It was a nice trio of birds to top off an excellent day of birding.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Sure, this is normal occurrence across much of Europe and southwest Asia but this particular tale comes from out on the east end of New York’s Long Island, in the town of Medford, where this happened to an unsuspecting non-birder, Celeste Rovner. Thanks to Derek Rogers for getting this story onto the New York State listserv.

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JULY 4, 2016

What is the best bird you’ve seen in New York State and why has it stayed in your memory? This is the question I posed to 10,000 Birds readers in celebration of Corey’s first book, the ABA Field Guide to Birds of New York (by Corey Finger, author, and Brian E. So, I treasure every sighting. Or a sequel.)

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MAY 12, 2015

New York, I can say with certainty that you have chosen the perfect bird to represent your state. Still, the bill passed in 1970 with only one voice in opposition: Assemblyman Posner of the Bronx, who pointed out that most New York City inhabitants had never seen an Eastern Bluebird, and probably never will.

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APRIL 8, 2013

The first weekend in November will see birders from all over the Empire State descend on Long Island for the 66th Annual Meeting of the New York State Ornithological Association ( NYSOA ). Birding New York' So sign up ! Right now ! Don’t delay !

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APRIL 9, 2018

To get there we would need to get out of New York, through New Jersey into Delaware, and then on through Maryland and Virginia until finally reaching our destination. We broke the drive down into two segments: from New York to Delaware on 31 March and from Delaware to North Carolina on 1 April.

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JULY 8, 2013

The next day many New York birders celebrated Independence Day by mobbing the flats where they all dipped. The fact that I was obsessing over seeing one in New York State shows how absurd some of we listers are. But those birds didn’t count for my New York State list so I had to see this particular tern!

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OCTOBER 19, 2015

We have had days of northwest winds in New York and the birds have taken full advantage of the favorable conditions to hightail it south. Though sparrows tend to be the main focus of mid-to-late October birding here in New York City there are still plenty of other birds to see like the Eastern Phoebe up above.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

The first weekend in November will see birders from all over the Empire State descend on Long Island for the 66th Annual Meeting of the New York State Ornithological Association ( NYSOA ). Birding New York' And this is only a taste of what will be happening in a bird-and-birding-full weekend! So sign up ! Right now !

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DECEMBER 28, 2011

What is there to say about a Mountain Bluebird , a bird of the west, of high elevation grasslands, of the Rocky Mountains, in New York State? What is there to say, that is, other than “Wow” as you head out the door to track it down?

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MAY 9, 2016

Gray Kingbirds are rarely seen in New York State and when they are they usually are only seen by the person or people who find them or those in the immediate vicinity. The long drive back to New York was filled by more lousy, incidental eBird checklists, more fast food, and more road kill.

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MAY 2, 2011

The New York Times blog, City Room, will be holding a “ Bird Week &# this week. The city’s avian equivalent of convention season is just around the corner: the second week in May marks the peak of spring bird migration in New York City, with the maximum numbers of species and individual birds passing through town.

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

Daisy agreed to the outing because it was sunny and nice and Edgemere, once mosquito season is over, is actually a really nice place for a family outing what with the long view of the New York City skyline and the refreshing air blowing off the bay. Trips Edgemere New York City phoebes Queens rarities Say''s Phoebe'

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JULY 5, 2011

The Spruce Grouse population in New York State is shrinking to near oblivion and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is on the case. Overall, the species is not in danger, as there are large and robust populations further north.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Around about the middle of last week there were various and sundry birders from the great state of New York spending a seemingly inordinate amount of time paying attention to the weekend weather forecasts, particularly those that pertained to the marine forecast. … Trips New York pelagic pelagic birding'

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DECEMBER 22, 2013

Black Guillemots in New York State have not been kind to me. As for chasing Black Guillemots in New York, well, the first one that I could have legitimately chased turned up in December of 2009 out east on Long Island. … Trips alcids Black Guillemot Nassau County nemesis bird New York Twitching'

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NOVEMBER 23, 2015

When I heard back on 12 November that a Harris’s Sparrow was frequenting a feeder in Loudonville, New York, up where I learned to be a birder, in Albany County, I really wanted to go on the twitch. Ain’t nothin’ wrong with appreciating a Pileated Woodpecker.

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AVMA News

JUNE 5, 2023

Dignitaries gathered this May in Manhattan, Kansas, for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NABF), a cutting-edge animal disease research facility replacing the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York.

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APRIL 21, 2014

The Great Vly is wonderful wetland that straddles the border of Ulster and Green Counties in New York State’s Hudson Valley. I was surprised to find a singing House Wren this weekend, as it was my first of the year in New York. The other two were Pine Warbler and Palm Warbler , all expected early migrants.

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JANUARY 15, 2015

But I can’t resist getting out to sea and trips organized by Sea Life Paulagics out of Freeport, New York, don’t happen more than a few times a year so I had to go for it. … Trips New York pelagic pelagic birding winter' ducks at dawn. Sign up and join the fun…I promise not to puke on you.

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AUGUST 28, 2011

It was an insane morning of birding and I haven’t even mentioned the Sandwich Tern that would normally have been the highlight of a day’s birding in New York that was just hanging out on the spit at Jones Beach. Yeah, I didn’t think I had but we spotted one of those too.

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MARCH 27, 2017

Now, those of you familiar with my tendency to chase birds in New York and knowledgeable of the spate of Great Gray Owls we have had in 2017 might question why it took me to nearly the end of March to make a trip upstate to see one. Desi was game and that convinced Daisy.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

When you are a New York City-based birder that is pretty pleased with the amount of boxes ticked off on your New York State checklist you would normally want a rarity that you have not seen in the state to show up within an hour drive of your home. And I even got to work on time! … a.

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APRIL 27, 2013

After our nature walk we had lunch, and while eating lunch more reports of the phoebe, which is a species I had never seen before in New York State, were coming in over email. Say’s Phoebe Sayornis saya in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York.

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OCTOBER 15, 2011

No, I haven’t sold my soul to Rupert Murdoch but I was quoted a couple of times in a New York Post article about birding in New York City. Today, the New York Post , tomorrow, the world!

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

After a Tufted Duck was reported yesterday on Long Island I did some figuring and realized that I could go find the bird this morning before work and still, provided traffic wasn’t totally horrific, get to work in New Jersey on time. So I headed out to Huntington Harbor, ran into Anthony Collerton, and eventually found the bird.

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DECEMBER 31, 2011

2011 was a good year for rarities in New York State and Richard Fried saw almost all of them. His 352 species in the state for the year broke the New York State big year record of 350, which was set by Scott Whittle in 2008. Watch for an interview with Richard in the coming week here on 10,000 Birds!

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JUNE 22, 2011

When I first saw the post on the New York State listserv about the Hooded Crow on Staten Island I wasn’t going to twitch it. It had to be an escaped bird or at least one that didn’t make it to the southernmost borough in New York City under its own power but by riding a boat.*

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FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Though it was first found last weekend the Gyrfalcon at Gilgo Beach was not known by the vast majority of New York birders until it showed up on the New York City Rare Bird Alert email late Friday night. On my way home I got text messages from the birders still there that they had managed to confirm the identification.

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