10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2020

We’ve featured Collective Arts Brewing several times here at Birds and Booze, so it’s no surprise that they chose to adorn their version of All Together IPA with a bird, a colorful Northern Parula ( Setophaga americana ) depicted by Connecticut artist Edgar Allan Slothman , the pseudonym of professional illustrator and advertiser Don Carter.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Bryant Park, that marvelous magnet for migrant birds in midtown Manhattan, has come through with another cooperative stunner. Check this out !

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APRIL 18, 2021

“Three hatchling American Robins in a plastic slice of pie container,” said Bonnie Alexander in Connecticut. Five hatchling House Sparrows in a Happy Meal box,” said Johanna Walton, also in Connecticut. “They brought us one in a box the size of a small refrigerator,” said Karen Lynn in Connecticut.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Eager to Share is an American pale ale from Marlowe Artisanal Ales of North Haven, Connecticut. I have to admit that, at first, I found the name of this week’s featured beer rather confusing.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2022

It’s a brew with unapologetically loud flavors and a bold, lurid can to match featuring Connecticut artist Edgar Allan Slothman’s lively, Day-Glo interpretation of John James Audubon’s portrait of a caracara pair from The Birds of America. Slothman’s take on Audubon’s caracaras comes from his quirky Audubon 2.0

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Connecticut. Amendment 2 changed the process for passing conveyance legislation in Connecticut. Election Results = PASSED with 59%+ voter support. Northern Harrier. Photo by © Robin Edwards. Legislative Requirements to Transfer State Properties Amendment.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2021

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). A few states still have no checklists at all: Nebraska , Minnesota , Iowa , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , and Alabama.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2011

The Mountain Lion struck and killed by a car in Connecticut in June has been confirmed as a wild animal. The last confirmed sighting of a cougar in Connecticut was in the late 1800s. Its journey originated in South Dakota, 1,500 miles to the west!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2020

I am also from the Northeast, and seeing architecture that reminded me of New York and Connecticut and even my home state of Maine beneath southern Live Oaks and Magnolias felt a bit odd. An Eastern Towhee sang in the distance, but I felt more excited about the calls of an Eastern Wood-Pewee – my first of the year. But I liked it.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

I like the journalistic flavor added by these interviews.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2021

Jayne Neville, a former wildlife rehabilitator specializing in songbirds, moved from Connecticut to Florida and immediately began making the acquaintance of all the birds in the area. This is a perfect example of the old adage, “If you want to change the world, start in your own backyard.”.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Thanks to a kindhearted man who found it, an able and willing wildlife rehabilitator named Linda Bowen who nursed it back to strength, a helpful pilot who got it to Florida, and a host of others, a White-tailed Tropicbird that was found on the ground and exhausted in Connecticut in the wake of Hurricane Irene will be released tomorrow.

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MAY 9, 2015

From Connecticut. Having an eye-ring. Does not mean that this bird is.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Oh, as an aside, did I mention the Connecticut Warbler I found on Tuesday in Madison Square Park in Manhattan? Well, let me remedy that and share a picture… This Connecticut Warbler made me very, very, very happy. (The other two are King Eider and Western Kingbird , both of which are amazingly good birds for Brooklyn.).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, the Senator from Connecticut who was determined to save our birds and who used a lifetime of hard-learned political maneuvering, collegial networking, and a worldview focused on the goal, not the glory, to make it work. A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: George P.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Some states have no species at all, not even a pigeon, crow, or sparrow: Hawaii , Utah , Nebraska , Oklahoma , Minnesota , Iowa , Wisconsin , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , Alabama , Connecticut , and Rhode Island. However, that’s not the case for others, such as Connecticut or Rhode Island.)

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 27, 2012

Canine athletes are jumping through hoops to capture the gold at Doggy Games in Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, New York, New Jersey and Texas. Just check out these amazing doggy athletes!

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The programming is diverse, and capitalizes on the particular passions of each our guides.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 21, 2012

Best Friends Pet Care is a leading national pet care company and offers boarding, daycare, grooming and training at 42 locations across 18 states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.

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JULY 17, 2020

P.S. While I usually forget to make such recommendations, Neversink Spirits is located in eastern Westchester County, New York, right along the Connecticut border, and just a stone’s throw from excellent birding at the Edith G. Good birding and happy drinking!

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Critter News

JULY 2, 2009

Chimpanzees, like Travis the chimp who mauled the woman in Connecticut, are not meant to be family pets. Apparently, Bubbles is now 26 years old and living at an animal sanctuary. He got too aggressive to live with Jackson's kids. This is not surprising. Well, supposedly there's a film and book deal pending.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Originally from London, England, Luke Tiller transplanted to Connecticut in 2003. Newly surrounded by wildlife, he found his love of birds reignited. A professional hawkwatcher for many seasons, his passion and knowledge saw him invited to join the board of the Hawk Migration Association of North America in 2013.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2011

Here is my story about a quest for the Connecticut Warbler.–Bill For the better part of the past 25 years of bird watching, I have had one pretty common eastern wood warbler that has eluded me: the Connecticut Warbler. I have met dozens of beginning birders who have seen the Connecticut Warbler. –Bill Thompson III.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 17, 2013

Doggy proms will be held throughout the week at Best Friends Pet Care centers in the Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Denver, San Diego and Houston metro areas, across Connecticut and New Jersey, and in Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Charlotte and at Best Friends Pet Care center at Walt Disney World in Florida.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2019

Connecticut Warblers are rarely seen in Connecticut or anywhere else for that matter. Not only do these species lack any special attachment to the areas in question, but Wilson earns extra demerits for mixing states and cities with a decidedly unscientific sloppiness.

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MARCH 30, 2016

OspreyCam … no offspring yet, but you can be the first to spot them, at this cam run by the Connecticut Audubon Society. National Arboretum—have not one but two cams focused on their activities. Bonus activity: Help name the nestlings !).

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Critter News

MAY 15, 2009

Travis is the infamous Connecticut chimpanzee that wore clothes, drank wine, attacked a woman, and was shot by police afterwards. It's now confirmed that he had the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in his system. Did this play a role in Travis' attack? The victim is now blind, with a brain injury, severe damage to her face and the loss of both hands.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2019

It’s impossible to pick up a can of The Raven – a chocolate raspberry porter by the Fat Orange Cat Brew Company of East Hampton, Connecticut – and not think of that most famous supernatural poem by Edgar Allan Poe.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

Chuk makes his quip about the Black-winged Yellow Bird; my friend Molly insists that everything is a duck, a pigeon, or an owl.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2012

Connecticut Warbler - The next-to-last of the expected wood-warblers to get added to my Queens list. The link for Connecticut Warbler , by the way, leads to a bird I wasn’t sure about but that same day I had one that left no doubt in my mind.) Whimbrel - Shorebird season was lousy this past summer and I didn’t get lucky.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2015

At least one Nashville Warbler came through and I didn’t hear a single person call it a Connecticut Warbler. This Yellow Warbler did not care about the ominous clicking noises coming from the hairless bipeds’ machinery. Magnolia Warblers were dirt-common. Oh, and there were some non-wood-warblers around as well.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Consideration of the needed legislation comes just one week after a woman was critically injured in a vicious chimpanzee attack in Stamford, Connecticut - leaving no doubt that the danger of nonhuman primates in homes and to communities must be addressed.

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Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2008

Efforts for such a ballot initiative in Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, New Hampshire and Vermont have failed but efforts are currently underway to establish similar legislation in Colorado and Washington. Throughout UEP’s annual meeting speakers cautioned that Prop 2’s passage would be a major blow to the industry.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Here in New York State Snowy Owls have been reported in more than ten counties, with most of those counties having birds being seen in multiple locations.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 1, 2010

Be aware of areas where Lyme disease (a common tick-borne illness) is prevalent: the eastern coastal states and the north central states, especially parts of Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Wisconsin and northern California. Tick-borne diseases are prevalent in certain locales.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

You see, like many other neighborhoods in and around New York City, Howard Beach has a significant population of Monk Parakeets , a South American parrot species that has adapted well to life in New York City, Chicago, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, and Texas after having escaping or being released from captivity.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

After our successful chase of a Painted Bunting in Connecticut on an unseasonably warm day, Seth, Mary, and I made our way to Lenoir and were pleased to immediately spot both hummingbirds battling over the patch of Pineapple Sage that adorns one edge of the Butterfly Garden.

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