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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of July 2020)

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Fortunately, there is whale-watching happening on the American Princess, out of Brooklyn, but spending lots of times in Queens waters. Sunday afternoon, Corey finally managed to connect with a Great Shearwater in Queens from the whale-watching boat, easily his Best Bird of the Weekend! How about you? How about you?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of August 2017)

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Corey was pleased with the result of the whale-watching trip he took in Queens despite the fact that no one on the boat saw a single marine mammal. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. I’m enjoying all the grungy adolescent birds gracelessly trotting about.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of June 2014)

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But while one a whale-watching trip with his family on Saturday and seeing only Herring Gulls at the back of the boat for a good half-hour, he heard Desi, his four-and-a-half-year-old son, pipe up with “There’s a Laughing Gull ! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of October 2013)

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Blog security is serious business! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey and I don’t get out in the field together much, since we’ve determined that the ongoing security of 10,000 Birds requires the two of us to live in separate cities. How about you?

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The Ross Sea – the Last Intact Marine Ecosystem on Earth – and I

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The Ross Sea is the most productive stretch of water in the Southern Ocean, teeming with large predatory fish, whales, seals, penguins and other animals that form the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth. Sperm Whales prey on Toothfish and large squid and in February 2007, a 10-metre (32.8 Enough History – Back to the Future.

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Chacachacare Island

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In contemplating a title for this blog post, I vacillated between historical and geological references. Chacachacare was also the site of a US Army base, a leper colony, and before that, a whaling station. Then it hit me that the name of the island itself is rather exotic sounding. Northern Scrub Flycatcher.

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Birding – While Camping – North Lake State Park, Greene County, New York

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Check out my mom’s blog post where she has a nice shot of my father and I looking at the wood-warblers. If you want to experience the awesomeness of North Lake State Park you can start by checking out the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation web page on the park. (By Well, mostly swallowed a very large bug.

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