10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

The next day many New York birders celebrated Independence Day by mobbing the flats where they all dipped. It is a bird of the Pacific coast of North and South America, breeding in western Mexico and southern California. In the winter it is found across a vast swath of the Pacific coast of South America.

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New York South America 2013 New Jersey 150

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APRIL 21, 2012

Flugum in Birding from a Tractor Seat Though almost every time that I have heard a Hermit Thrush sing was high in the Catskill Mountains or Adirondack Mountains I did once hear a Hermit Thrush doing a very soft version of its song in late winter in Forest Park in Queens, New York. … a.

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New York United States Breeding Emotional 179

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

Look at the facts, lay your emotions aside and listen to reason—exactly the same reasoning that’s been so persuasive in convincing me that hunting cranes is the right thing to do. In my home state, Bald Eagles are breeding in 35 Ohio counties. We need to give hunters new opportunities and new species to hunt.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Hunting Kentucky 259

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JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Photos of birds from northeastern areas predominate, not surprisingly since photographer Marie Read lives and works in upstate New York.

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Eggs Family 2006 New York 263

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MARCH 9, 2011

Let us for once judge a book by its cover, and take a thorough look at a Black-headed Gull in breeding plumage. In the finest tradition of Romanticism, gulls dwell in the mystic world of dark and morbid imagery and emotions, which is expressed in often eroticized ways of aesthetic self-dramatization*. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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