10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2019

My first thought was that it was probably a hoax but I found the link and shared it to the New York Birders Facebook page, hoping to find out if anyone knew if it was the real deal. I got rightly dragged but also heard from the finder of the bird, Jen Kepler, that the bird was indeed real, and really was at Big Egg Marsh.

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 6, 2014

ELAINE SLOAN New York, March 4, 2014' The same goes for pigs and cattle that are exploited and forced to live in substandard conditions. Congratulations to California for being so compassionate and leading the way.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 19, 2011

To the Editor: Re “ Egg Producers and Humane Society Urging Federal Standard on Hen Cages ” (Business Day, July 8): I’m a vegetarian who turned vegan after coming to terms with the fact that just because I was eating hormone-free, antibiotic-free, even free-range organic eggs didn’t mean that egg-producing hens were living a cruelty-free life.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2016

While so many spent the weekend obsessing over eggs, others cast their eyes to the feathered fruit of eggs… not necessarily Easter eggs, but different, non-chicken eggs. Maybe this whole comparison falls apart upon closer scrutiny, but these are still fine days to be looking at birds! How about you?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Northern Mockingbird at Fort Tilden, Queens, New York Mallards at Big Egg Marsh, Queens, New York Song Sparrow at Fort Tilden, Queens, New York Ring-billed Gull at Mill Pond Park, Nassau County, New York House Sparrow at Fort Tilden, Queens, New York Canada Goose at Mill Pond Park, Nassau County, New York European Starling at Fort Tilden, Queens, New (..)

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

But there are ways to prevent this situation, and to prevent the constant springtime problem of wildlife being orphaned… like these Barred Owls , above left, and Red-Shouldered Hawks , all of whom were delivered as eggs to Christine’s Critters in Weston, CT, thanks to two different private homeowners’ felling of trees.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Into the Nest , as the title says, is about the courting, mating, egg-laying, nesting, and parenting behavior of “familiar birds”. Photos of birds from northeastern areas predominate, not surprisingly since photographer Marie Read lives and works in upstate New York.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2014

Don’t get me wrong, they are nice to see, mostly because in winter we have so few shorebirds around in New York, but they are definitely not going to be the red-letter bird of an outing. Big Egg Marsh in Broad Channel, Queens, hosts a wide variety of shorebirds that come to fatten up on Horseshoe Crab eggs each and every spring.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2013

We won’t be leaving town until after the weekend, but plan to celebrate Easter the way we always do: egg hunt, baskets, and a nice hike. Corey will be visiting his folks upstate in Saugerties, New York for Easter and will hopefully see something interesting while there. How about you?

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Farm Animal Welfare, ASPCA New York, Feb. The idea that eggs from free-range chickens are somehow morally superior to other eggs is, frankly, weird. That sounds like a win-win to us. SUZANNE McMILLAN Dir., We have a hard enough time figuring out what makes people happy, but chickens?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

According to the HBW, when breeding, male birds do most of the incubation and parenting while females often leave the nest up to one week before the eggs hatch. According to Couzens, after laying the eggs, females sometimes immediately abandon their first mate and pair up with another male. But maybe that is actually a good thing.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2019

This past Friday, after leaving Cupsogue where my twitch for the Wilson’s Plover had ended in success I decided to head back over to Big Egg Marsh in my home borough of Queens to see if I could rediscover the Burrowing Owl I had seen the previous evening could be rediscovered. Sadly, the owl remained missing. It was exciting!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2018

You see Christo and Dora, the insurgent New York City Red-tail celebrities who bid fair to replace Pale Male (or whoever he is ) like yesterday’s meme, got themselves in a bit of a tangle. Christo, like a sensible Darwinian creature, has been trying it out with a number of other candidates to put eggs in his nest.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2012

Now, as a native New Yorker who makes my home in Queens I don’t get to see many lizards. We have just three native species of lizard in New York State ( Northern Fence Lizard , Five-lined Skink and Coal Skink ) and one introduced species ( Italian Wall Lizard ).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

I’m used to Willow Flycatchers along the coast in New York, and I had been led to believe that Acadian Flycatchers are common at Henlopen but I never heard nor saw either species all weekend long. And then there were the birds that made me remember for sure that I was in Delaware and not in New York.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2010

15): I have one very simple piece of advice for consumers interested in higher-quality eggs from humanely treated chickens: stop buying eggs at the grocery store. The eggs we eat come from chickens that spend their days outside, scratching and eating grubs. To the Editor: Re " A Hen's Space to Roost ” (Week in Review, Aug.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

As is my wont, we’ll be celebrating a secular Easter replete with colored eggs, chocolate bunnies, and a fun family hike. Corey will be visiting his folks in upstate New York. Share your plans in the comments below! Perhaps I’ll even see my First Phoebe of 2012.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2014

Comes another, O Swallow, In an egg warm and white, And another is callow. Corey cannot be contained during this time of transition: expect him virtually anywhere in the New York Metro area. Past Memphis, down Nile! but love all the while. Builds his nest in my heart, Through the cold winter-weeks: And as one Love takes flight.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

A Humane Egg The life of animals raised in confinement on industrial farms is slowly improving, thanks to pressure from consumers, animal rights advocates, farmers and legislators. In California last week, Gov. This requirement would at least relieve the worst of the production horrors that are common in the industry now.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

To the Editor: In your July 12 editorial “ A Humane Egg ,” you disparage the modern, sanitary housing systems for egg-laying hens, which have improved chickens’ health and well-being, improved consumer food safety and kept eggs a nutritious and economical staple on kitchen tables and restaurant menus nationwide.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

Irene Muschel New York, April 9, 2009 To the Editor: Nicholas D. Egg production, including on free-range farms, entails the mass killing of newborn male chicks, a point made in Nicholas D. Hens in all forms of egg production endure an equally cruel execution once their profitability has declined. Kristof’s column.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2011

Fried-egg-on-a-sidewalk hot. In other words, it is once again summer in New York City. It’s hot. Really hot. Sticky hot. Painfully hot. Hate-the-sun hot. Disgustingly hot. Wander-the-apartment-in-just-underwear hot.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Doug Futuyma is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University, State University of New York, and he has taught much of this material to undergraduate and graduate students, and also birders in later years, for literally decades.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

They were awesome.” “A driver wearing a tuxedo and white gloves pulled up in a stretch limousine,” said Barbara Bellens-Picon in New York, “and handed us a velvet-lined box of baby squirrels.” “I “Apparently she found a fallen American Robin ‘s egg,” she wrote, “and kept it in there for two weeks!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The nickel was placed in the nest for the photo to show me the size of the egg for identification purposes, then removed. Even though the female lays only two eggs per nest attempt, they enjoy a protracted breeding season in which multiple nesting attempts can occur every 30 days, and in Southern locations, nearly year round.

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Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

This New York Times article argues that it could lead to other states following suit. In another sign of the growing clout of the animal welfare movement, a law passed in California this year will also ban imports from other states of eggs produced in crowded cages.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 25, 2010

15): We are glad to see an article describing the intensive confinement of egg-laying chickens, but we disagree when it says that animal advocates and consumers are “driving big changes” in the treatment of chickens. To the Editor: Re “ A Hen’s Space to Roost ” (Week in Review, Aug.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2017

And it is even less frequent in New York City where we only have one species of hummingbird, the Ruby-throated Hummingbird , and they don’t nest very often. It is not every day that you get the chance to see a hummingbird’s nest.

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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. and a visit to Big Egg Marsh (one year bird!) Late Saturday afternoon a Tundra Swan was reported from the south end of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The new series was masterminded by Chanticleer founder Paul Steiner, who was lauded on his death 19 years later for his “brilliant idea of creating bird guides with photographs” and organizing them visually. New York Times, March 11, 1996. Plate 28 from Audubon Bird Guide, Eastern Land Birds, by Richard H.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 13, 2008

This modest proposal would bring a smidgen of comfort to millions of hens used for egg production. Recent investigations by nonprofit groups in California, Ohio and Pennsylvania have revealed the atrocious living conditions of egg-laying hens, though their owners said they were humanely cared for.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh.

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Critter News

JULY 8, 2011

history, the United Egg Producers (UEP) has agreed to support national legislation that will, upon enactment, improve the welfare of all laying hens in the nation. Farm Sanctuary’s shelters in New York and California provide lifelong care for rescued farm animals.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2014

For example, in the Delaware Bay, warming coastal waters can cause horseshoe crabs to lay their eggs earlier than normal; conversely, more intense and frequent coastal storms can cause late spawning. In both cases, knots, which feed on the crabs’ eggs, can miss their peak refueling opportunity. Birds in Delaware Bay.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The lengthy Introduction gives both a personal history and a global history of birds and art, including brief profiles of John James Audubon and the far lesser known Genevieve Estelle Jones, who conceived of a book eventually called Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio in the late 19th century.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 18, 2008

Cholesterol is found only in foods derived from animals, like meat, cheese and eggs. Humans, and most animals, produce cholesterol naturally, but the problem is when we “supplement” this biologically occurring substance. I suppose you can say that I started to control my cholesterol level 17 years ago when I was a young woman.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 23, 2007

Ross Smith New York, May 21, 2007 To the Editor: I am shocked by the ignorance of the recent outcry against vegan diets in the media, most recently Nina Planck’s article about the dangers and irresponsibility of vegan diets during pregnancy and infancy. A diet that may be adequate for an adult is not always good for a baby or a child.

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