10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2013

The former mayor of New York City, Ed Koch, was famous for his catchphrase, “ How’m I doing? But that’s not the case for many birds who live in or pass through the United States, a new report indicates. ” The answer to that question these days is, to put it bluntly, still dead.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 11, 2013

It’s time to capture your cat’s funniest or most adventurous moment and enter “ The Friskies ” for your opportunity to win a $5,000 cash prize and a custom-made gold plated Friskies Catuette, and take part in the live Award Show in New York City this fall. The Call for Entries is open now through July 15, 2013.

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New York City Cats Rescue 2013 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

I thought of this experience as I read Still the Same Hawk , a collection of twelve essays about nature and New York City, edited by John Waldman. Anne Matthews’ too-brief musings on the possible futures of the city offer cinematic utopian and dystopian possibilities to ponder. Some of them are even birders.

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New York New York City 2013 Collecting 107

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2013

We New York birders should be awash in migrating wood-warblers, flycatchers, vireos, tanagers, and a host of other birds right now. Instead, the spring migration of 2013 has been largely a bust. It is 6 May. It’s 6 May and I haven’t seen a Black-throated Green Warbler yet! That is just not right at all.

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New York City New York Breeders 2013 179

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

Here are three excellent but very different children’s books I enjoyed this year (two were published in 2013, one in 2011). They start out in New York City, climbing a skyscraper to see a Peregrine Falcon, the world’s fastest-moving bird, diving at almost 200 miles an hour after a pigeon.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 232

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2014

While the environmental disaster was unfolding in New Jersey, New York beaches seemed free of the plants but that all changed in October 2012. A large patch of sand sedge was found on the beach at Arverne-by-the-Sea by botanist Heather Liljengren of the New York City parks department just before Hurricane Sandy hit.

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New Jersey New York New York City Japan 170

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2013

I haven’t been birding yet in 2013. and a handful more ( Rock Pigeon , House Sparrow , and my first native bird, White-Throated Sparrow ), but for the most part I’ve been sticking to indoor pursuits here in chilly New York City. Oh, I’ve gotten my first bird of the year ( European Starling – yay?)

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Arkansas Memphis Sparrows Geese 101

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

House Sparrows were introduced to New York City in 1852 and later in other areas. There are few areas of the world where they have been introduced and not survived (Greenland and Cape Verde are examples of this bird’s local demise). Bumpus looked at the effects of a nasty winter storm on survival of several sparrows.

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Collecting 194

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

And, let’s face it, how many birders can say with certainty if a roosting nightjar is a Chuck-wills-widow or a Whip-poor-will, as New York City birders learned a couple of weeks ago?) These chapters differ in length and content, depending on the number of species in each group. Kosslyn and G.

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Birds New Jersey Science Groups 169

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Finally, there is The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors by Richard Crossley, Jerry Liguori, and Brian Sullivan (PUP, 2013). ” (And, each “Plumage Variation” essay differs, according to the guide’s regional focus, with the Eastern volume citing photos of some of New York City’s favorite Red-tails.)

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North America Birds Mississippi Bald Eagle 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

212) who trap, follow, and analyze the migration paths of Snowy Owls, a project founded in 2013, the magic year of the Snowy Owl irruption. It is early April as I write this, and migration is beginning to trickle through to New York City. Author Scott Weidensaul and a Snow Owl.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 250

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Long-eared Owl – 25 Mar 2013 – This was another twitch which I managed to get on a drizzly morning before work where it roosted in a pine stand in Forest Park. Upland Sandpiper – 23 Jun 2013 – Found by Isaac Grant at the Edgemere Landfill in the midst of Isaac’s New York City big year.

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2012 2013 New York City Jamaica 158

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

Of course, this only works when the target birds vocalize, which Scaup don’t tend to do in winter in New York City. And, they are an integral part of Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle’s The Warbler Guide (2013), another innovative field guide.

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