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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. Natural areas include Pelham Bay Park, Van Cortlandt Park, Woodlawn Cemetery, New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo.

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New Faces at the Olde Homestead

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Then, the following week, a flock of Sandhill Cranes went over – a bird that’s expanded significantly in Western New York since I was a kid, so again, I tried to tell myself it wasn’t much of a surprise. I’ve only seen Orchard Orioles in the parks of New York City, and that is right and proper.

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Breeding Bobolinks in Queens

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Unfortunately for me and other New York City birders, Bobolinks are hard to come by in our marvelous metropolis. In The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State one can see that only the southern tip of our southernmost borough, Staten Island, had breeding Bobolinks between 2000 and 2005.

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White-throated Dipper in Switzerland

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Though originally from Switzerland he now makes New York City his home where I (Corey) have had the great fortune of meeting him, birding with him, and photographing wildlife with him. extender at f 4 and a shutter speed between 1/400 and 1/2000, using a monopod support. …. These pictures shot with a 300mm prime lens and 1.4x

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Disappointed with a Florida Fork-tailed Flycatcher

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Steve Walter is a New York nature photographer, birder, and long-time member of the New York City Butterfly Club. It also brought back memories of a Fork-tailed Flycatcher that I found in Queens, New York in 2000. A few years ago, I would have been unable to do anything until I got home to New York.

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Animal Rights Zone Launches Today

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New York Times. New York City. More >> Category. More >> Players. More >> Places. Kazakhstan. More >> Year. The number next to each changes with the popularity of the terms (for each blog).

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Do Snowy Owls really belong in genus Bubo?

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They go so far as to suggest that the Snowy Owl’s “[g]enetic similarity to the Great Horned Owl, which was suggested by Wink and Heidrich (1999 and 2000), could be a secondary event, or the result of parallelism.” Snowy Owl , Breezy Point, New York, 2012 © Corey Finger. (Potapov and Sale 2013).

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