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The Oriolest Oriole

10,000 Birds

I will broker no argument to the contrary. I have yet to see one of our North American orioles this year, though I expect I’ll come across either the Baltimore or the Orchard variety in the not to distant future, but should I miss them I feel as though my oriole quote for 2013 has been reached. Take a look at this sucker.

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

10,000 Birds

There are no bird illustrations in Urban Ornithology, other than Arthur Morris’s Least Bittern on the cover, but there are maps and figures in the first two chapters, and scatterplots for 43 species, illustrating Bronx/Westchester CBC data from 1924 to 2013, in the Species Accounts.