10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2018

A regional rarity around New York City, Tundra Swans are only regular at Hook Pond in Suffolk County, way out on the eastern end of Long Island. I set my tripod on the ice and scanned through the birds with my binoculars, ducks, ducks, ducks, two Mute Swans , ducks, gulls, gulls, gulls, ducks, two Mute Swans , ducks.

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Jamaica Wildlife New York City Ducks 106

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

My visit on Saturday morning was meant to be a quick stop to scan the ducks, geese, and gulls to see if anything interesting was around. The Ruddy Ducks looked miserable but the grebe and the coots seemed to be doing fine. Such a cold Ruddy Duck. Ring-necked Ducks have great eyes. I kind of felt bad for him.

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Geese Iceland New York City Ducks 183

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Formerly, as you can tell from its name, it was a military base, mostly tasked with keeping New York Harbor safe from attack. I was joined on the platform by Luke Musher, a recent transplant to New York City who I met a week earlier in the same location with Doug Gochfeld. It wasn’t a duck.

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New York City New York Battery Experience 203

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Rough-legged Hawk (2 of them), 13 February, Breezy Point, Queens, New York (2nd and 3rd Queens sightings). Wood Stork , 08 May, Suffolk County, New York (state bird). Black-bellied Whistling-Duck , 11 July, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, New York (2nd Queens sighting). A new Queens bird?

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New York Birds California Owls 260

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

It’s among a handful of species — American Robin, Black-capped Chickadee , the unholy trinity of House Sparrow – Rock Pigeon – European Starling , a few others — that have been everywhere I’ve ever lived. We never would have gotten all those extra species of Red Crossbill that way.

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Connecticut Baltimore North America New York City 180

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2012

The American Acclimatization Society was a group founded in New York City in 1871 dedicated to introducing European flora and fauna into North America for “both economic and cultural reasons. 1 ” By 1877 New York pharmacist Eugene Schieffelin, an avid admirer of Shakespeare, was the society’s driving force.

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North America United States New York City New York 196

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

My last species in the park was Wood Duck , which we have in Montana too but which is always fun to see. Oh, and there was one other birdy thing that happened in New York City. Anyone have any idea what species this is? Birding Central Park tatto'

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Montana New York City New York Nashville 165

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2022

we learn) that are home to coveted boreal species, breeding wood-warblers, and two species of Grouse. There are 461 species on the Maine checklist. This field guide covers 265 species, the ones most likely to be seen–residential and migratory, almost all nesting birds, many wintering birds.

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 205

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2015

Speaking of my balcony, I vastly exceeded my goal of seeing 65 species from it in 2014, clocking 81 species this year. That increased my total list from my balcony to 92 species! Further from my balcony I managed to see 257 species in my home county of Queens in 2014, a pretty decent number.

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2014 Costa Rica New York New Jersey 244

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2016

So we set to scanning, adding species and birders at a roughly two-to-one ratio. The little tiny duck with the white supercilium was ours! Anthony had spotted the bird back in the reeds and announced it only to see a Wood Duck swim out. But I included a Wood Duck for scale! We got sunburnt, bug-bitten, and dehydrated.

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New York Bald Eagle New York City Kazakhstan 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

We made our way from our boat’s berth out to and around the tip of Breezy Point, seeing the typical and expected ducks like Long-tailed Duck and Red-breasted Merganser. A surprise was a Common Merganser , a bird we don’t see much in New York City and especially not flying over the coast in Brooklyn.

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New York City New York Jamaica Seals 164

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Redgannet, you’ll have to come visit New York City sometime soon. are up next, with a wonderful Australian species: It is very hard to choose a Best Bird of the Year any year. This weird little skulking waterfowl is a species I had hoped to chance upon in various places for quite some time. Clare (and Grant!)

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2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 241

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

Mandarin Duck, Central Park, NYS. It is very possible that Mike and Corey will penalize me for including the Mandarin Duck–also known as the “Hot Duck,” “Mandy” only to tourists and the Gothamist–in this list, but its celebrity cannot be ignored. Everybody wants to know about the Hot Duck. ” [[link].

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 163

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2011

In New York City so far this year we have only had a dusting from the Halloween storm that wreaked so much havoc elsewhere and since then the weather has been mild. In December in the northeastern United States you expect snow. Remember that every time you flush it the bird burns energy that it needs to survive. Have you?

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United States Jamaica Birds Owls 197

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

The guide covers 520 species of birds regularly found in the eastern United States and southeastern Canada, including, interestingly, a number of exotic species. There is also a traditional index to bird species, by common and scientific name. Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family.

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North America America Birds New York 175

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2017

This past Saturday, 07 October, was the day for the Queens County Bird Club Big Sit, our fourth year of counting every species we could see from the hawk watch platform at Fort Tilden, in southwestern Queens. Well, during a Big Sit a bird is a bird is a bird and they all count as one species. It was so bad I never even blogged it.)

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Birds Dolphins Canada Sparrows 111

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Now my Queens list stands at a whopping 302, which means I have actually added thirteen species since my last predictions. Long-eared Owl* Harlequin Duck* Connecticut Warbler* Alder Flycatcher. My shorebird list in Queens is now at thirty-eight species! (It It is pictured at the top of this post.).

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2012 2013 New York City Jamaica 158

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2019

But history doesn’t seem to have recorded which species of bird first dared to land on an electrical wire. Birds may have taken to these artificial perches like ducks to water, but human reactions to the newfangled poles and wires were hardly as appreciative, especially in the early day.

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United States Game North America New York City 118

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2011

Queens, the finest borough in New York City, as I may have mentioned before, is where I have now seen a whopping 279 species! What species will be the ten to get me to 289? Harlequin Duck – There were several birds seen in Queens this winter that I either missed or could not get out to chase.

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Jamaica Owls 2010 New York City 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Here is another photo of this beautiful species. • Explore These Related Posts March by Goethe Stalking a Kiwi Icon Polygynandry and the Alpine Accentor Duck Migration Finally Saw-Whet.Or Winter Hits New York City Desert Finch in Arkansas (!?!?!) Does anyone know for sure?

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2011 Jordan Deer New York 205

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Long-tailed Duck is one of my favorite birds that we see on the Christmas Bird Count. There have been 221 species recorded on the count, including goodies like Gyrfalcon , King Rail , Western Tanager , Ash-throated Flycatcher , Sedge Wren and Black-throated Gray Warbler. The Queens count circle is the one in the middle.

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Birds New York City New York New Jersey 163

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

I finally got my first phoebe of the year yesterday, Saturday, 19 March, a mere eighteen days after the first phoebe of the season was reported in New York City. And, if you don’t get Eastern Phoebe or if they winter, what species do you use as your sure sign that spring has arrived?

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2011 Deer New York Philadelphia 188