10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2011
New York City is well known as a city of immigrants so it makes sense that the only lizards living within the five boroughs are immigrants as well. The best bet for finding either species is to get into the proper habitat on a sunny day and to watch for them sunning themselves on rocks or gravel. .*
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
But I wouldn’t be able to go on posting another routine Birds and Booze review at 10,000 Birds this week without mentioning that Katherine, my fiancée and partner for the last seven last years, passed away two weeks ago from a very brief and unexpected illness. Birds and Booze will return next Friday with our usual weekly review.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2014
It’s etched into my audio memory, which is quite a feat considering the problems I have recognizing even the most common bird cries. I look up and see three large green birds, the bright green contrasting with dark blue underwings, whitish-grayish foreheads and breasts shining in the winter sun, flying overhead. “We
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2011
Seth is generous with his knowledge, and, knowing this, Corey cajoled him into providing this post about one of the many avian mysteries of New York City. One of the least known stories of New York birding is the tale of the wild Mitred Parakeets. What, you may ask? How did they get there? Are they breeding?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2012
As a resident of New York City the only predator I am ever concerned about while birding near my home is other people. And alligators seem to be everywhere in Florida – basking in the sun, cruising through canals, eyeing your pet poodle. In May 2006, alligators killed three Floridians in less than a week.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2014
Andrew Revkin recently described in his Dot Earth blog how he watched, amazed, as a white pigeon raced the traffic on the Palisades Parkway, heading north from New York City. Say what you will about pigeons – they’re among the most extraordinary athletes in the bird kingdom. Birds crows pigeons'
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2013
This week, a new study was published about Sparrows in Nebraska, that in some ways resembles the study by Bumpus and may well be a better example of Natural Selection in birds. House Sparrows ( Passer domesticus ) are introduced birds over most of their very large range. As you know, a lot of birds are killed in the U.S.
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