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A Corn Crake in New York State!

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I drove up to where now only two cars were parked, and saw Steve and Isaac, two New York birding friends, stood in the middle of the median. In New York State! They are found in meadows and other grasslands, habitats which have been attributed as a major reason for their steep decline in Great Britain and Europe.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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The new series was masterminded by Chanticleer founder Paul Steiner, who was lauded on his death 19 years later for his “brilliant idea of creating bird guides with photographs” and organizing them visually. And now we have the third iteration in Audubon’s guide book history: National Audubon Society Birds of North America.

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Hooded Crow in Staten Island, New York

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When I first saw the post on the New York State listserv about the Hooded Crow on Staten Island I wasn’t going to twitch it. It had to be an escaped bird or at least one that didn’t make it to the southernmost borough in New York City under its own power but by riding a boat.* Get to Staten Island, posthaste!

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Devils Backbone Brewing Company Vienna Lager

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Fittingly, this revolutionary style is a product of Europe’s Age of Revolutions, being first introduced by the Austrian brewer Anton Dreher in 1841, at the beginning of what was perhaps the most tumultuous decade of the European nineteenth century.

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Birds of the World: The Art of Elizabeth Gould

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These images are a wonderful cross-section of Gould’s best work, pulling from books on Toucans, birds of Australia, Trogons, Europe, and Darwin’s Voyage of H.M.S. All of Elizabeth’s birds were drawn from skins, though the Birds of Europe images benefitted from her observations of real live birds.

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Butterflies are a Free Post

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But while monarchs are among the most charismatic and well-studied of lepidopteran migrants, rather less attention is paid to the fact that North America is home to other migrating butterflies. The American snout periodically moves through Texas and Mexico in huge numbers.

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

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There is another area of the Queens County CBC where a team will also likely see Monk Parakeets , Myipsitta monachus , but I am seriously determined to count that bird for my area, Coastal Flushing, a section of northeast Queens, New York, that includes Whitestone, home of one of the loudest invasive bird species in the U.S.

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