10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2020
Happy New Year, 10,000 Birds readers and writers! Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. Buckley, Walter Sedwitz, William J.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2020
Few birds are as spectacular as a Northern Gannet in a plunge dive. I did five one-minute counts of the birds going past and over the point and it averaged 150 birds per minute. I also did an extremely rough count of the birds already in the harbor and came up with roughly 3,000 birds, though I was probably undercounting.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2016
The American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New York by Corey Finger, birder, blogger, and co-emperor of 10,000 Birds, with photographs by Brian E. We at 10,000 Birds are so excited, we’ve decided to give away a copy of this excellent guide. It’s here! It’s here!
10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2019
There I was, enjoying a lazy Sunday afternoon at home on a rainy and blustery day, resting on my laurels after seeing lots of good birds on Saturday and Sunday morning. Well, I made a list: Timber Point Country Club is in Suffolk County, New York, about forty-five minutes from my house in Queens provided traffic isn’t too bad.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2014
On Thursday, 24 April, Eugene Nichols was minding his own business, birding along the shore of Lake Ontario on Point Peninsula, in the far northern reaches of New York State. He found an all white bird that didn’t belong and eventually deduced that he was looking at a Willow Ptarmigan.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2018
A couple of weeks ago a group of New York’s better birders were out birding in Suffolk County when one of the four found an interesting shorebird, one which she couldn’t identify immediately. I drove up, parked my car, walked up to the very extensive scope line, and spotted the bird.
10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2017
Joshua Malbin has been birding in Brooklyn, NY for more than 10 of his 15-plus years doing it so far. A New York City Parks Department contractor just wiped out a breeding population of sparrows in tons of trouble already, on land owned by the parks department that was supposed to be protected as “Forever Wild.”
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