10,000 Birds

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. The time of year was right and I had high hopes. White-faced Storm-Petrel in New York waters. There were three birds I really wanted to see. ” Yes!

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10,000 Birds

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 ). Right now ! Birding New York' So sign up ! Don’t delay !

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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

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 ). Right now ! Birding New York' And this is only a taste of what will be happening in a bird-and-birding-full weekend!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2012

That made me wonder why someone would put so much energy into a species that is regular in New York and not a lifer. As of Friday, 11 May, Anthony had already seen 283 species in New York State, a blistering and likely record-setting pace ( Richard Fried is the current record-holder with 352 species seen in 2011 ).

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10,000 Birds

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. And the highlight of our herpetological highlights was a Northern Watersnake that Mike stepped right over without noticing it sitting in a freshet. (In

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New York Bald Eagle McDonalds Fast Food 101

10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2012

That changed when I got on the computer and learned that a birder way up in northern New York, on the Tug Hill Plateau, had reported a heck of a bird coming to her feeder. Nancy Loomis had a Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch , New York’s second* record, and I was not going to miss this bird again. What a bird!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2013

My parents made the drive down to New York City to visit Daisy, Desi, and me in Queens on Sunday and I had a great plan for the day. This may come as somewhat of a surprise to those who don’t know about it but the waters just off of Queens can apparently be pretty good for whales at the right time of year. Whale-watching!

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10,000 Birds

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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10,000 Birds

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. More like White-cheeked, right? Ain’t nothin’ wrong with appreciating a Pileated Woodpecker. White-throated?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to New York State. Fortunately, Tom spotted it flying in and landing in a tree over the house and we all enjoyed scope views of a great bird, a lifer for most of us and Isaac’s 400th bird in New York State!

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 200

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

I’ve never seen a Northern Hawk Owl ( Surnia ulula ) – and I think it’s been several years since one last strayed into New York – but I do know that in winter excursions south, they often favor open farm country and sitting atop prominent perches, from which they give their hard, disapproving stare to all passersby.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2017

After all, exposing a child to nature is important in their development, right? 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.

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New York Owls Beavers Puerto Rico 101

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2014

Every spring they totally steal the show in the northeast and you really can’t blame birders for abandoning their jobs, their families, and their sanity as they rush to New York City’s abundant and amazing parks to see the show live and in technicolor. … Birds migration New York City wood-warblers'

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

That’s right, I, along with my family and some really good friends, was camping. Our campsite was gorgeous North Lake State Park in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, where the air is crisp, the forests are largely intact, and the bears force you to be careful about leaving food out when you go to sleep.

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New York Cooking Chipmunks Owls 175

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

But when a second hummingbird was reported at Lenoir Preserve in Yonkers, New York, it seemed worth checking out, especially because the second bird, unlike the first, which is a Rufous Hummingbird (at left), wasn’t identified to species in the email to the state listserv that alerted birders to its presence. … a.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

You want to find a Cave Swallow in New York, huh? But what’s the big deal about seeing Cave Swallows in New York anyway? After all, it’s just another swallow, right? Fortunately for you, it’s easy. Just follow the steps below and you will be in Hirundinidae heaven in no time!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2013

Sadly, lots of good birds were lacking on our 2 March 2013 trip out of Freeport, New York. Don’t get me wrong, those birds are cool birds, but when you are out in a boat for twelve hours specifically searching for alcids and you only get two of the five species you would expect in New York it is kind of disappointing.

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New York Iceland Puffins Ducks 150

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2015

I think Pine Warblers have just the right amount of color for an early wood-warbler. It is always nice when you are close enough to see the brown iris of a Pine Warbler. Is this bird intent or what? Who likes feather detail? And if feather detail isn’t your thing how about a portrait? Pine Warbler!

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2020

Juice Bomb IPA by Sloop Brewing in Hopewell Junction, New York is a great beer – it just doesn’t have much going on bird-wise. Sure, there are some birds on the can of this New England-style IPA. Things will be back to normal soon, right? Which is precisely what we’re getting this week.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Let’s jump right in, shall we? Spotted Towhee , 05 January, Baldwin Harbor Park, New York (state bird). Lark Sparrow (photo above), 30 January, Fort Tilden, Queens, New York (self-found, way out of season). Wood Stork , 08 May, Suffolk County, New York (state bird). Honorable Mentions.

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New York Birds California Owls 260

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

February feels like a step forward to our next season, but we’ll still be as mired in winter or summer, depending on your hemisphere, at month’s end as we are right now. Corey enjoyed a long weekend in Narrowsburg, New York, along the Delaware River at the New York-Pennsylvania border.

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Bald Eagle Delaware New York Pennsylvania 214

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

That means that as of right now the yardstick I am holding does not exist because there are no yard sticks that are zero long. That will be much better, right? Besides, suffering brings birds, right? I moped all the way to Coney Island where I drove with my family on an outing to the New York Aquarium.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2021

So far, the closest Roseate Spoonbill to me in Albany, New York has been a bird discovered in the last week just over the border in western Massachusetts – but I don’t really care about my list in that commonwealth enough to cross the state line, even if it is for a spoonbill.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

At least, that is what anecdotal evidence tells me and nothing is more accurate than anecdotal evidence, right? Yes, that’s right, a White-winged Crossbill and a Red Crossbill together! But, as was predicted , this has been a monster year for winter finches and good old Loxia curvirostra is no exception. …

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New York Rights Birds Species 133

10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2021

Right now, though, we can watch and listen and enjoy. Of all the species he saw he had one that was easily his Best Bird of the Weekend, as it was a new bird for him in New York State. May is a time for birding. Corey enjoyed getting out early and birding both days this weekend, and has the lists to back him up.

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New York Sparrows Birds Breeding 261

10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2021

Luckily for us, the gull featured on Rebuke, a Helles-style lager from Brown’s Brewing Company of Troy, New York, is depicted in silhouette, which gets us off the hook ID-wise, as far as I’m concerned. Well, good for them. We’ve got a beer to drink.

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Germany New York Bears Rights 262

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2021

Fortunately, we have birds to look at, so let’s focus on them right now. Mike absconded from New York the day I returned and despite missing his connecting flight he is safely in Alaska right now. (At So that will be my Best Bird of the Weekend. At least, I hope he is.)

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Just yesterday I learned that the Barn Owl ( Tyto alba ) is the only breeding bird found in New York that has been documented nesting in every month of the year. This bit of trivia was given in an article in my local bird club’s monthly newsletter about the ongoing breeding bird atlas in New York State.

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2017 Barn Owls Rodents Owls 244

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2021

And what could be better than a new bird-themed brewery opening up less than two miles down the road from me? I first noticed The Warbler Brewery in the Albany, New York suburb of Delmar back in November, a little over a week before their grand opening the day before Thanksgiving.

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New York Boston 2019 Collecting 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2014

Several times while I was there individual birds flew down to low trees right next to the paved path in order to pull branches off for use in nest construction. I just missed a shot of the bird on the right giving a stick to the bird on the left. How do so many people miss such an obvious amount of activity?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2020

Our featured spirit this week is Neversink Spirits Gin, the flagship product of Neversink Spirits , a craft distillery in Port Chester, New York. Being located in a great apple-growing state like New York, Neversink uses 100 percent state-grown fruit to produce their apple-based gin. Good birding and happy drinking!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

The muted colors of Blackburnians, Black-throated Greens, and Blackpolls fit right in with the dull greens and golden highlights of the early fall vegetation. The Eastern Kingbirds I knew from the fields of upstate New York were smartly dressed birds that perched on fences and chased Red-tailed Hawks. Swallows Everywhere.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2021

I picked out this week’s Parula Pilsner from The Warbler Brewer of Delmar, New York solely because it’s the very end of April, right around the time I generally see my first Northern Parula ( Setophaga americana ) of the year. But with May right around the corner, the floodgates seem about to burst.

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