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Twenty-Four Hours of Awesome Part One: A Burrowing Owl?!?!?!

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Unfortunately, we were heading south on Woodhaven Boulevard along with at least half of the population of New York City. Though we were the first birders on the scene we were not the first people, as a youth baseball game was in full swing and there were cars and people everywhere. None of them did.

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Operation Duck Drop

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Now begins the waiting game. How lazy and/or bad are these New York City birders? Everyone in New York City is losing their mind now. RE: Operation Duck Drop. Sparrow has successfully completed Operation Duck Drop. What an excellent operative! To: Tyrannus. From: Egret. Date: 09 October 2018.

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A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching: Getting to Know the World’s Most Misunderstood Bird: A Book Review by a Pigeon Cynic

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Mosco is also the author of Birding Is My Favorite Video Game: Cartoons about the Natural World (2018, a collection of Bird and Moon comics); co-author of several children’s books, including The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid (2018) with Dylan Thuras and Joy Ang, Butterflies Are Pretty … Gross!

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City Birds

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Returning to New York, however briefly, has been a joyful reunion — not just with old friends, but with my beloved, quirky New York City birds. Shortly after I arrived I got word of the Gray-hooded Gull at Coney Island, and of course I went after it right away.

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Wild Turkeys at Flatrock Brook Nature Center

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Flatrock Brook is in the the city of Englewood, New Jersey, just across the George Washington Bridge from New York City. They were gone from New York State from the 1840s until around 1948 and in New Jersey from the mid-1800s until they were reintroduced in 1977.) … a.

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1,200+ Canines Don Tiaras & ‘Tails’ This Week for Doggy Proms

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The staff, also wearing prom attire, will organize games and doggy dancing and take photos of each canine couple to send home to mom and dad. The camp room at each Best Friends center is decorated for the special event with a Starry Night theme of dark blue and silver streamers, stars and a disco ball.

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Aslin Beer Company/Two Roads Brewing Company: Under the Wire

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The tendency of birds to alight onto the wooden posts, steel towers, and metal wires that constitute our power and communications infrastructure turns any car ride into exciting and endless game of drive-by identification. And we move on to the next speck looming ahead and the game repeats itself, over and over.