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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. Natural areas include Pelham Bay Park, Van Cortlandt Park, Woodlawn Cemetery, New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo.

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions. In Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure , Susan Fox Rogers offers a series of elegantly written essays on learning to bird.

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The Eagle Huntress–A Film Review

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Even when hunting in sub-freezing temperatures on the edge of the Mongolian border or doing her chores around the family ger (yurt) in the isolated Altai Mountains, Aisholpan beams. Eagle hunting is a family tradition that goes back at least 12 generations, part of the larger nomadic Kazakh culture. It’s exciting.

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Brewery Ommegang: Short Sleeve Saison

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Brewery Ommegang of Cooperstown, New York has long been one of my favorite breweries. True, there is what looks like a dove sitting with a fox in silhouette on the Rare Vos label, and in 2015, Ommegang released a dark saison called Three-Eyed Raven as part of its licensing partnership with the hugely popular HBO series Game of Thrones.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of March 2011)

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This cruel, cruel fate we endure in western New York torments man and beast alike. Also present in other parts of the park were fox and white-throated sparrows. 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?

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On Post-Hurricane Birding in Queens

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So is the response of people from all over New York City and beyond. I helped a guy lug a cart full of water, food, and other supplies up eleven flights of stairs to his apartment, something he would not have been able to do alone, and made sure he and his family were alright and had everything they needed.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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There are owls in New York City. They are the city’s latest, maybe only, celebrity media sensation, and photographs show crowds of New Yorkers craning their necks up as far as their masks allow, holding phones at arm’s length, using opera glasses and huge binoculars that remind me of the ones my dad used at the racetrack.