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MARCH 2, 2011

Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover? Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella. Coreys 2011 Year List - 228 Copyright © 2011 10,000 Birds.

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Experience Experiments Deer 2011 162

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MAY 3, 2020

I was quite pleased to pull my first New York state warblers for the year from the early bird menu. Was it the Seaside Sparrow that bizarrely popped up on a rock jetty? If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The birding is just that good, or at least can be.

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2020 New York Birds Sparrows 169

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NOVEMBER 4, 2018

I found myself in a beautiful part of New York that was so remote that birds apparently couldn’t find it. Corey was pleased to enjoy another lovely autumn weekend in New York City. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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OCTOBER 7, 2018

I enjoyed a very birdy weekend with all sorts of expected New York and Pennsylvania fall faves and one rare Wilson’s Phalarope to pad my year list. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. ” How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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OCTOBER 31, 2014

Hordes of House Sparrows and Rock Pigeons are more than willing to push you around rather then let you have that choice morsel you just found. Almost every year there are a few birds that stick around at Bryant Park long after they are gone from the rest of the New York City area. I sure appreciated this Swamp Sparrow.

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New York City New York Birds Sparrows 225

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NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Corey could have chosen his first Pine Siskins of the year in New York, a Red-headed Woodpecker , a late Osprey , or a Vesper Sparrow as his Best Bird of the Weekend this weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Can Snowy Owls be far behind?

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OCTOBER 18, 2015

Corey had a huge number of birds to choose from this weekend as northwest winds were continuous through New York City all weekend long. But of all the species he spotted he felt either of the two Grasshopper Sparrows at Kissena Park in Queens was his Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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New York City 2015 New York Sparrows 150

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NOVEMBER 2, 2014

A juvenile White-crowned Sparrow is an expected bird in late fall in New York State but it is always nice when one sits still for a digiscoping session. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How did you fare? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2014 Bats New York Birds 171

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OCTOBER 28, 2018

Corey, on the other hand, had a wonderful weekend of fall birding whether it was doing a survey at Edgemere Landfill in the rain and wind on Saturday morning or leading a New York City Audubon field trip at the Queens Botanical Garden on Sunday. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2018 New York City New York Birds 114

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OCTOBER 1, 2017

On my nature rambles this weekend, I ran into a couple of White-crowned Sparrows. He had better luck on Sunday, seeing a host of autumn migrants including his Best Bird of the Weekend, an Orange-crowned Warbler at the Queens Botanical Garden that he spotted just before the New York City Audubon bird walk he led. How about you?

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New York City 2017 New York Birds 138

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NOVEMBER 1, 2015

I couldn’t help but foray out to search out new arrivals. Looks like American Tree Sparrows , among my favorite winter birds, have returned! Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was actually a flock of birds in the form of fourteen Wood Ducks flushing out of the Great Vly in Corey’s hometown of Saugerties, New York.

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2015 New York Birds Sparrows 145

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AUGUST 10, 2014

If you read my weekly posts bookending theweekend birding experience, you know that I pay close attention to phenology. The way the ebb and flow of each season impacts out experience of the natural world must inform our efforts to observe avifauna if we want to optimize our experience. How about you?

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2014 New York Birds Experience 170

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JANUARY 14, 2018

His Best Bird of the Weekend was either of a pair of young White-crowned Sparrows he found in Kissena Park in Queens, a good bird for winter in New York City! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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New York City 2018 New York Birds 100

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JULY 5, 2022

Over the next few days, I found increasing numbers, goldfinches, juncos, white-throated sparrows. “Bird-friendly design” is becoming a common term in architectural and city planning circles and proponents can point to a successful initiative, the retrofitting of New York City’s Javits Center which reduced bird deaths by 90%.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 261

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

When I returned Sunday morning with appropriate optics, warblers were nowhere to be seen, but a veritable profusion of sparrow species along with a mess of Marsh Wrens made up for their absence. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was his favorite species, a Green Heron , at the Great Vly in his hometown of Saugerties, New York.

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2016 New York Birds Collecting 154

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

The Best Bird of my weekend was a partially leucistic House Sparrow that added some flavor to an otherwise drab feeding flock. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend looked particularly nice as he was watching it through his new toy, a Swarovski STX Modular Spotting Scope. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2013 United States Sparrows New York 166

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MAY 1, 2016

I didn’t wander far from home this weekend, but luckily a ton of new birds came to me. My favorites were the White-throated Sparrows who typically visit my feeders this time of year. Corey endured a dreary and drizzly weekend in New York City with only a few good birds to help pass the time.

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New York City 2016 New York Birds 100

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MAY 8, 2016

Corey was hoping that Gray Kingbird –in New York State–would be his Best Bird of the Weekend but sometimes long-distance twitches result in dips. However, in the midst of migration, I’ve been most enamored with the White-crowned Sparrows that have haunted my feeders for the last few days.

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2016 New York Sparrows Owls 100

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NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the many good birds he saw during the New York Birders Conference (which was a rousing success). If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? Birding best bird weekend'

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2013 New York Birds Sparrows 162

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AUGUST 12, 2012

I found the experience of authentically aggressive heat rather refreshing, but much prefer my moderate New York summers! Corey’s best bird of the weekend was a Lark Sparrow , highly unusual at his current coordinates. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2012 United States New York Birds 169

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APRIL 15, 2012

Luckily, swarms of songbirds arrived on time, including one very handsome Fox Sparrow. Corey had a hard time choosing his Best Bird of the Weekend, but picked his first New York Blue-gray Gnatcatchers of the year, which he saw in Alley Pond Park in Queens. Too bad the hawks and owls couldn’t make it too!

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2012 United States Fox New York 176

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AUGUST 10, 2015

Just like we did last year my family spent this past weekend camping at North Lake State Park, up in New York’s gorgeous Catskill Mountains. After all, having fledgling Blackburnian Warblers , Red-eyed Vireos (like the one above), Chipping Sparrows , and Black-throated Green Warblers in the trees around the tent was awesome!

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Birds New York Family Sparrows 162

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JUNE 8, 2019

Growing up in Niagara Falls, New York, June was a celebration of summer. Growing up birding in Western New York was also a time when the old woods of the Niagara Gorge were punctuated with the songs of hidden Red-eyed and Warbling Vireos and the lazy notes of Eastern Wood-Pewees. San Vito and Buenos Aires.

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Costa Rica Species Birds New York 202

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JUNE 5, 2016

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What a weekend! What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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2016 Pennsylvania Jamaica New York 100

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NOVEMBER 4, 2013

While at Jones Beach State Park on Saturday, co-leading the digiscoping field trip (with Clay Taylor from Swarovski Optik ), I had a couple of experiences that made me wonder exactly how it is that birders find birds. 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.

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New York Birds Sparrows Geese 169

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AUGUST 9, 2013

Out of over 30 respondents, almost everyone wanted money for better facilities, paid staff, on-call veterinarians, emergency vehicles, food, and protected land – from Terry and Lindsay in California to Cindy in Michigan, from Sally in Kentucky to Mickie in South Dakota, and Lisa and Lia in New York. wrote Laura, on Long Island.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma New York 251

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MAY 17, 2020

It is written in English, mostly, or a form of English anyway, and on first encounter the book and its language is weird, intriguing, puzzling, and beautiful in a way outside the normal realm of experience. Boston, New York. Drawing of the avian syrinx by Amanda Morgan Riley. __. By Donald Kroodsma. Harcourt Mifflin Harcourt.

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Virginia Boston North America 2020 254

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AUGUST 3, 2021

”* And then, my bird club friends started talking about alternate warbler songs and sparrow dialects and I thought, “Really? And, that sparrow I heard in California that sounded so different really is a Song Sparrow?” There’s more than one song per warbler? This is a beautifully designed book.

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North America Research Birds Groups 279

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OCTOBER 16, 2011

It was a gusty weekend in New York City and environs, with fall finally feeling like fall is supposed to feel. Sparrows have almost completely taken over for wood-warblers and temperatures are finally waning as is only proper. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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Costa Rica New York City Atlanta 2011 180

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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. I need to go find some sparrows or some other species that are really easy to deal with… a.

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New York Collecting Sparrows Experience 187

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MARCH 6, 2011

This cruel, cruel fate we endure in western New York torments man and beast alike. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. On Sunday at Kissena Park I saw five species of sparrows. Also present in other parts of the park were fox and white-throated sparrows.

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2011 New York Deer Birds 156

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AUGUST 6, 2019

The birds are instantly recognizable to anyone who’s birded New York City: Mourning Dove, Rock Pigeon, Cedar Waxwing, Brown-headed Cowbird, American Robin, House Sparrow, European Starling. It’s a very specific illustration. Author Mya Thompson has a Ph.D.

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New York City Pelicans Birds New York 158

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FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Back on Friday, 12 February, I was dismayed when I read the weekly New York City Rare Bird Alert email. Now, a Greater White-fronted Goose is not a big deal in many parts of the world and isn’t even that rare in New York State. After all, birding under a highway is not exactly my idea of a pleasant experience.

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Puerto Rico Geese Canada Porpoises 125

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are charismatic birds like Barrow’s Goldeneye, Evening Grosbeak, Red and White-winged Crossbills; mysterious seabirds like Leach’s Storm-Petrel; ‘little brown jobs’ like Winter Wren and Nelson’s Sparrow; a treasury of warbler species, 27 in all, many state breeders.

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Los Angeles Birds District of Columbia Parrots 210

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DECEMBER 21, 2014

The 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival is less than a month away and while we don’t have snow down yet here in New York City I am pretty sick of cold weather and could use some warmth and Florida sunshine! I can’t wait to be in Florida!

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Wildlife 2015 Bald Eagle New York City 157

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APRIL 2, 2013

Corey did just this in this 2011 posting about Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus in New York State. You can see the Species Account for Henslow’s Sparrow above, in the banner photo. of New Mexico Press, 2005). The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State (Cornell Univ.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 239

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MARCH 14, 2011

It is my belief that the birds were migrating, though one New York birder suggested that they might have been flying out for some crepuscular feeding. Either way, it was a heck of a sight and another example of why Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is the best place in New York City to see amazing wildlife spectacles.

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica New York 174