10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2018

New York City apartments don’t allow feeders to be hung from fire escapes (though I know certain birders that skirt that rule), and it wasn’t until I had already been birding for four-and-a-half years that I obtained a small yard in central New Jersey in which I could place a feeder or two or three.

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Birds New York City Squirrels New York 182

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2012

However, the true scope of the irruption was not apparent until people started chartering fishing boats to explore the waters just offshore where they were greeted by flocks of hundreds of Razorbills! Trey Mitchell’s beautiful shot of a Razorbill bobbing about in nearly tropical waters.

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Florida Cuba 2012 Bahamas 227

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

Despite not being a huge fan of searching through flocks of common species hoping to find something rare I still drag myself out to the East Pond as often as I can during the dog days of summer and torture myself with mud and heat and stink. We stopped counting after it had caught seven small fish in about five minutes.

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Jamaica Wildlife New York City Falcons 182

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2012

After a long fun day with extended family and friends and long drive back to New York City I didn’t get to bed until well after midnight and Daisy did not understand why I set the alarm for 5 AM. I just had to hope that the bird would stick around for a day so I could see it on Monday morning before work.

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Jamaica New York City Abandon Abandoning 159

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 245

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. Quite aside of aesthetic concerns, this new infrastructure could be dangerous as well – even deadly. Utility poles have been with us for some time: Vincent van Gogh depicted some in this 1888 roadside sketch.

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United States Game North America New York City 118

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 112

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

Or, one of the 145 species of Glass frogs living in the Cental and South American rainforests, I could look through the transparent skin on their undersides and see their internal organs. All species of frogs and toads share the fact that they are amphibian creatures, they have two types of skin gland, four legs, and, well, they jump.

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Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 190

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

For some reason, even though there are Mandarin Ducks in zoos throughout New York City, this escapee has become an internationally known tourist attraction, even heading the New York Times list of “Five Times the Internet Was Actually Fun in 2018.” ” [[link]. An eBird mystery. I also noted that the U.S.

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 167

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

. “Invasive&# is an ugly word, and ugly consequences have come from many of the explosive range expansions we’re most familiar with, whether of exotic species or even of native species with their normal restraints removed. Especially of all the species that had been introduced to the US. The proposal from U.S.

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Montana 2011 New York Bahamas 138