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Fun with Fish Crows

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Over the last couple of weeks Fish Crows have flooded back into New York City, early harbingers of spring, and those that stuck around have become much more vocal, meaning that birders can now put them on their checklist instead of “crow sp.” These Fish Crows were clearly strengthening their pair bond.

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Northern Gannet Show in New York Harbor

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What I noticed is that some gannets would start to dive in a spot, probably where there were large numbers of bait fish, and then the hordes would descend, with dozens plummeting at a time. … The post Northern Gannet Show in New York Harbor appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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An April Weekend of New York City Birding

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I moped all the way to Coney Island where I drove with my family on an outing to the New York Aquarium. Watching Desi experience the world is always a great way to cheer up, and seeing him go goggle-eyed over brightly colored fish, sea otter, and walrus was…wait, what’s that little yellow bird in the walrus enclosure?

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Black-crowned Night-Heron Eating a Fish

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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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Audubon’s Footsteps

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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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An Early Spring Day Birding Sandy Hook, New Jersey

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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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The Cormorants of New Croton Dam

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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.