10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

There are owls in New York City. They are the city’s latest, maybe only, celebrity media sensation, and photographs show crowds of New Yorkers craning their necks up as far as their masks allow, holding phones at arm’s length, using opera glasses and huge binoculars that remind me of the ones my dad used at the racetrack.

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 198

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Audubon’s Hog Island Audubon Camp attracts birders of all skills levels every summer and Acadia National Park, Monhegan Island, Machias Seal Island, and Scarborough Marsh are nationally known birding hotspots. There are 461 species on the Maine checklist. In the back were simple bar graphs showing species seasonality.

Los Angeles 210

Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 210

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2016

And, the birds and birding trips to Arizona, Florida, California, the waters of North Carolina, and Alaska—always back to Alaska—start accumulating. There’s Doug Gochfeld, “an exceptional birder from New York” whose “short, dark hair was slowly overtaking his face,” one of Hayward’s guides on St.

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2013 Arizona Birds San Diego 108