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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of October 2016)

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I saw lots of different kinds of woodpeckers this weekend, but that big, honking Pileated always wins out over the others for Best Bird honors. Though Floridians might laugh, the Cattle Egret is Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. Nature lovers, on the other hand, find time for wildlife watching every weekend. How about you?

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Cow Birds

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It didn’t take much imagination to name Cowbirds or Cattle Egrets or Cattle Tyrants , but there’s more fantasy, even more wit, involved in the naming of other bovine birds. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Wicked, right?

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Invasive Species Week Wrap-Up

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– Greater Rheas : Germany’s new Big Bird – Feral Pigeons World Wide – New York City’s First Eurasian Collared-Dove – The Eurasian Collared-Dove Explosion: Coming to a Town Near You! … Here at 10,000 Birds 20 July – 26 July is Invasive Species Week.

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The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana

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We remember starlings not skylarks, House Sparrows not Eurasian Tree Sparrows , Cattle Egrets not… well, whatever we’ve forgotten because it didn’t do as well as the Cattle Egrets. So, tentatively, welcome spring and new life. It’s just that the exceptions are so much more attention-grabbing.

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Collaborative list – June 2019

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Black-cheeked Woodpecker – Melanerpes pucherani. 449–543 Cross Bay Blvd, New York US-NY (40.6103,-73.8191). Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Brookville Park, New York US-NY (40.6436,-73.7443). Brookville Park, New York US-NY (40.6436,-73.7443). Laguna Lagarto Lodge. 01 Jun 2019.

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Pat’s Year List, it’s 2016!

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Coming from Niagara Falls, New York, it also means freezing, bitter cold, watching for imaginary Polar Bears while pretending to walk through an Arctic landscape, and looking for owls. Cattle Egret – Bulbulcus ibis; House, 7-Jan. Red-bellied Woodpecker – Melanerpes carolinus; Niagara county, 2-Jan.

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Answer to the Diabolical Avian ID Quiz: From A to Z in Queens

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Or These Blasts From The Past For Medicinal Use Only Wake up and smell the frangipani Cattle Egret at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn There’s Oil in Them Thar Birds! Mallard Complexity About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Wicked, right?