10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2015

If you liked this post and want to see more great images of birds check out 10,000 Clicks , our huge (and growing) collection of galleries! To think that this bird spends half the year in the company of penguins before coming north for our summer. Awesome! ….

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Desi was still having a blast and though I really, really, really wanted to see a new bird for me in Queens I couldn’t justify ending the festivities, especially after having spent most of the morning out enjoying New York state’s second Cassin’s Kingbird. Then Daisy asked me who had called.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2021

He noted that this new bird had longer bills and “darker loral and auricular regions” than the mainland Brown-headed Nuthatch, and collected two of them for science. He gave one to his home institution, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and the other to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2021

And what could be better than a new bird-themed brewery opening up less than two miles down the road from me? I first noticed The Warbler Brewery in the Albany, New York suburb of Delmar back in November, a little over a week before their grand opening the day before Thanksgiving.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

It was seeing this incredibly huge bird sitting against the backdrop of the dignified buildings that line Fifth Avenue, and seeing New Yorkers walking their fast New York pace below the hawk, ignoring my pointing finger. But, a collection needs to have a wholeness, a theme or a goal that brings its diversity of content together.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It’s the subject of the eleventh essay in this collection, almost smack in the middle of the 22 pieces that comprise the book. and then the life and writings of Harriet Mann Miller, a New York State native who under the name Olive Thorne Miller wrote eleven books and hundreds of articles about nature in the mid- and late 19th century.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

And, for those of you who live in or near New York City or are visiting here this coming weekend, we are hosting what is undoubtedly going to be the largest mass action about climate change in history. In fact, my employer, the New York State Nurses Association, has joined the march and that is with whom I will be marching on Sunday.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

He collected the first data set, invented the experimental equipment, came up with the first conclusions, the theories and findings upon which subsequent studies have been based. “We have the ability to fix it, but we still need the collective will” (p. ’s Lights Out DC, to name a few. It’s not a bad idea.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 258

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2019

The idea was to see how many birds could be collectively identified by folks anywhere and everywhere. May is a fantastic time of the birding year in New York but when the Blackburnians are entertaining the eyes of birders up north, this and most of the other migrant species have already left Latin America. Global Big Day (GBD).

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Costa Rica Species West Virginia New York 215

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Every fall and spring for the last several years I have been putting together a collection of wood-warblers spotted on migration. All of these birds were photographed in the last couple of months in New York and New Jersey as they made their way south on their amazing migration. Why stop now?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2020

From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Our featured beer this week is Bramble, a dry-hopped farmhouse ale from the Arrowood Farm Brewery of Accord, New York, made with – as the name suggests – raspberries. The Robin, No. Louis, Missouri (early 20th century).

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Farming New York St. Louis Belgium 152

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Some are all three ( e.g. , New York, California, and Florida). The Collective added six new states in the past three years, but none have eclipsed the century mark: Wisconsin ( 74 ), Utah (55), Hawaii (38), Oklahoma (18), Rhode Island (9), and Connecticut (5).

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United States West Virginia Puerto Rico Minnesota 204

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

For those who track avian migration, each new week may bring a fresh arrival or herald a new departure. Of course, birds only represent a sliver of the near-infinite flora and fauna that, collectively, grows, blooms, dies back, and lapses into dormancy over the course of a year. How about you?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

When I got home later that day I downloaded my photos and reported the band number to the feds , and then put the photos on the New York Birders Facebook page to ask if anyone knew what the weird little widget attached to the goose was. And, upon closer examination, it had a weird little device attached to the color band.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2015

Like we do during every dry spring, intrepid birders had lugged gallons of water into the woods and used them to fill a motley collection of garbage can lids in order to induce the birds to come down to bathe and drink. There were a host of birders and photographers at the Forest Park waterhole which had completely dried up. The back-stripes!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2020

Lately, it’s been hot and mostly dry here in eastern New York lately, with long stretches of humid, summery days without wind or rain, when even the slightest breeze would have provided some relief. Their use in ancient China is attested in the Huainanzi , a collection of essays compiled before 139 BCE. But none came.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2016

My Best Bird of the Weekend was a heard-only Least Bittern calling from the Great Vly in my hometown of Saugerties where I was to collect my boy after a week with his grandparents. The bittern was nice but it was even better to see Desi even if he didn’t want to leave to head home to hot New York City! How about you?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

Flatrock Brook is in the the city of Englewood, New Jersey, just across the George Washington Bridge from New York City. They were gone from New York State from the 1840s until around 1948 and in New Jersey from the mid-1800s until they were reintroduced in 1977.) … a.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. As long as we’re dreaming,” wrote Erin in New York, “how about if the transmitter signals are received by our own personal TV sets, and each has its own channel so we can watch what’s going on through their eyes as a live feed?”.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Luisa is currently preparing a show that will open on 10 February 2011 at Agora Gallery in Chelsea, New York. The forest should also be present in the show, I thought, so I started collecting wood from young trees in the forest to construct cagelike assemblages where I placed handmade books made with handmade paper.

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Venezuela New York New York City 2008 241

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 9, 2009

If the Nazi marchers and racist hate mongers “augmented” their activities with videos of graphic violence against Jews and blacks, would The New York Times rush to their defense on constitutional grounds? Mandelker New York, Oct. I was privileged to be present in the court when this case was argued. Lawrence A.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Perhaps a footnote in brewing history now, Anton Dreher was an illustrious personage in his own time: this bronze portrait of the brewer by the Austrian medalist and engraver Anton Scharff (1806-1855) is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2022

Jam Up Passion Fruit & Peach is a dry-hopped sour ale with peach and passionfruit from Collective Arts Brewing of Hamilton, Ontario. And this isn’t the first Collective Arts beer to feature Slothman’s playful avian art. Collective Arts Brewing: Jam Up Passion Fruit & Peach. Good birding and happy drinking!

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4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Purina ONE® showed the world how to really work the runway, turning heads at this year’s New York Fashion Week with cats on leashes during the 2013 Fall Collection Show by Tracy Reese, one of America’s most celebrated designers, on February 10.

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Cats New York 2013 Collecting 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2022

Mosco is also the author of Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Cartoons about the Natural World (2018, a collection of Bird and Moon comics); co-author of several children’s books, including The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid (2018) with Dylan Thuras and Joy Ang, Butterflies Are Pretty … Gross!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Now, for comparison’s sake, New York City has around 8 million people on 800 square kilometres, or 10,000 / km². New York City also has a functioning waste disposal and sewage water system. Sunda Teals, showing a feeding behaviour called “collective suicide” while a Cave Swiftlet looks on.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

My official list will include only birds I see on foot and/or using New York City public transportation: mainly buses and trains under the auspices of the MTA, but also the Staten Island Ferry. The result of the year will, I hope, be not just a big number but a collection of essays as well.

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New York City Transported New York Collecting 221

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Considering the ten most recent additions before this March averaged six months apart getting six new species in eight months is mind-blowing. Way back in March we were in the midst of a global pandemic and Queens was the epicenter of the epicenter that was New York City. Fortunately, there are birds to help. Two-for-two!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

This time, the first to find it was Tom Burke, one of New York State’s top birders both in terms of skill and list-size. When Lisa found that golden-plover on the sand bar we had all, collectively, gone through those birds probably five times. Of course, that meant the race was on to find the golden-plover again.

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New York Birds Sparrows Geese 168

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

This just might be a birding joke as old as the hills, but it’s one I hear without fail every year come Christmas Bird Count season in upstate New York. Now, Wood Ducks are somewhat uncommon in eastern New York in winter and after an inevitable few seconds of silence, some smirking wisecracker pipes up with “Do wooden duck counts?”

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2015

New York City in July provides limited opportunities for birders to see birds. If you liked these images of House Wrens and want to see more great images of birds (and other creatures) check out 10,000 Clicks , our big (and always growing) collection of gallery posts. You won’t regret it! ….

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New York City New York Blackbirds Collecting 165

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A good supplement to your Sibleys, Nat Geo, or Petersons if you reside in or plan to visit Maine, and a wonderful gift for aspiring birders who live there [If you live in NYS, Corey’s American Birding Association Field guide to Birds of New York is a great gift. Yes, this is a shameless plug, but it’s also true.].

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Sri Lanka Malaysia Birds Suriname 233

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2018

One of my early memories of birds is the abundance of Ospreys I saw after moving from Syracuse, New York downstate to eastern Long Island at the age of eight. I know that Ospreys nest in upstate central New York, but if I saw them there as a child, I don’t recall it (though my father will probably remind me that we did).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This time I got to see Pied-billed and Least Grebes at the reservoir, along with last week’s collection of Egrets. So if you can get to New York’s Central Park, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, or Mexico City’s Chapultepec Park, I’m sure it will be worthwhile… in 2021.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2011

On a recent family trip to Jones Beach, on New York’s Long Island, I had the opportunity to observe a small flock of gulls bathing, resting, and preening in some shallow brackish water that had collected behind the beach. They can also, because of their odd appearance, be difficult to identify.

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New York Collecting Sparrows Experience 184

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2011

We were walking on the south side of the marsh, hoping to find some of the Common Redpolls that had invaded the New York City area the previous week when something made me look to my left and up and I saw a Short-eared Owl in flight that had evidently just been unintentionally flushed from the opposite side of the marsh by someone out for a stroll.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 7, 2013

As the only organization in New York City whose doors are open to any animal in need, AC&C rescues thousands of New York’s homeless, neglected, abused and abandoned animals each year. The nonprofit’s goal is to place every dog, cat and bunny in a new, loving home. They are New York’s Kindest.”

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