10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2011

I did not count on sending him home with a fish story though! And while we wanted to do some more birding, and had to hustle to meet Danielle, Nate’s patient and lovely wife, in a timely way, we really needed to see what the outcome of the heron-fish encounter was going to be. … a.

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Fish New York City North Carolina Breeders 179

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Each chapter of Clavreul’s book covers his revisitation of one of these extended Audubon trips, with a final chapter covering New York City, where Audubon first set foot on American soil, in 1803. (His The plural of carp, for example, the fish and noun, is not carps but carp — that kind of stuff.)

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Bald Eagle Louisville Pennsylvania Ohio 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2014

We were four intrepid birders heading out of New York City to the wilds of New Jersey for birds, birds and more birds. ” Sandy Hook, our destination, is park of Gateway National Recreation Area like many of my favorite New York City birding locations. .”

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New Jersey New York City New York Bald Eagle 167

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

New Croton Dam, located just outside of New York City, is an enormous feat of construction. New Croton Dam. Though I was duly impressed by the magnitude of the dam, I was more interested in the sleek black bodies of the cormorants as they fished precariously close to the edge.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2014

Andrew Revkin recently described in his Dot Earth blog how he watched, amazed, as a white pigeon raced the traffic on the Palisades Parkway, heading north from New York City. Scudder (their long-time maintenance guy) had to go in and fish him out.”. “He’s gone crackerdog.”. Look at him,” Ruth would have said.

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New York City Vet Zoos Ducks 164

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2014

We tried following the bait fish. We saw plenty of fish but nothing seemed to be eating them, at least that we could see. … Trips dolphins New York City pelagic' The first-ever bird that Desi has identified by its field marks – a Laughing Gull ! After all, we saw dolphins! Desi, Daisy, Bonnie, and Javi.

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Whales Whaling Dolphins New York City 156

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Heck, even non-birders can be impressed by a flock of shorebirds evading a Peregrine Falcon , an Osprey returning to its nest with a fish, an American Oystercatcher showing off its impressive carrot-like bill. Whether a birder is a rank amateur or a skilled expert Jamaica Bay has something to offer them. And you shouldn’t either.

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Jamaica New York City United States Wildlife 164

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2013

Though originally from Switzerland he now makes New York City his home where I (Corey) have had the great fortune of meeting him, birding with him, and photographing wildlife with him. Their habitat is fast-running, rocky streams and rivers where they feed on aquatic invertebrates and insects, larvae, mollusks and small fish.

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Switzerland New York City 2000 Seals 178

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

All of the shots in this post were taken on 12-13 March 2011 at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, New York. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. There is something for everyone at 10,000 Clicks ! Wicked, right?

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Ducks 2011 New York New York City 144

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. The proposal from U.S. Wicked, right?

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Deer 2011 New York New York City 140

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

MARCH 16, 2011

Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. The proposal from U.S. Wicked, right?

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DC Washington Deer 2011 145

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Redgannet, you’ll have to come visit New York City sometime soon. But in 2020, with all my travel plans cancelled and pretty much everything shut down, I wasn’t straying too far from Albany, New York for birding. I’m sure once we get a vaccine that I can show you something better than a Black Kite !

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2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 245

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

These Blasts From The Past New York City Canada Goose “Kill Zones&# Revealed Help Save Migratory Birds! About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. The proposal from U.S.

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2011 Deer New York New York City 140

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

AUGUST 6, 2012

Stilt Sandpiper Calidris himantopus Yesterday morning I was joined by my frequent birding pal, Seth Ausubel, and by a new New York City resident, David Ringer , whose name you might recognize if you happen to read this blog. 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 4, 2023

Their common names reflect their size, appearance, residence, and sometimes their sound, ranging from the simple to the eponymous: Little Owl, Powerful Owl, Pharaoh Eagle-Owl, Cloud-Forest Pygmy-Owl, Pearl-spotted Owlet, Morepork, Christmas Island Boobook, Blakiston’s Fish-Owl.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 224

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.” An eBird mystery. I also noted that the U.S.

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2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 167

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2019

Quite aside of aesthetic concerns, this new infrastructure could be dangerous as well – even deadly. In North America, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service estimates that up to 57 million birds perish every year in collisions with electrical utility lines.

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United States Game North America New York City 118

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Barred Owl Bombardment About the Author Carrie Carrie Laben, after years of writing and birding in New York State, moved to Montana to pursue her two great passions more effectively. You’d think that the parks of New York City would be a natural for this bird, if it can survive from India to Montana.

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Montana 2011 New York Bahamas 138

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Soon I was joined by Matthieu Benoit, an ace French birder who has made his home in New York City for the last several years, and together we scanned the sky, the ocean, the bay, and surrounding vegetation for anything we could add to the list. an American Kestrel buzzing the platform.

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Birds Dolphins Canada Sparrows 112

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

He points out that birding is a community that values sharing (as opposed to fishing–who knew?) Braunfield. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. Gordon, president of the American Birding Association, is co-editor and writer of the book’s Introduction.

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2017 Costa Rica 2007 Hunters 151

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2012

Origins and classification describes the evolution of frogs from lobe-finned fishes; there are some gaps in the stages from fish to frog, but scientists have identified the earliest frog-like fossil as Triadobatrachus massinoti, a creature which lived in the area we know as Madagascar about 230 million years ago.

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Reptiles Madagascar Family New York City 190