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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease. ” I’m down as the observer of a White Pelican at the Whitestone Bridge on Dec. Norse was a Wall Street broker; John Kieran was a sports reporter and radio panelist.