10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2016

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a pair of Red-shouldered Hawks that have taken up residence in his parents’ neighborhood in Saugerties, in upstate New York. It’s tough to beat calling red-shoulders interrupting the kickball game with the kids! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2020

Such is the case with this week’s beer, Penguins in Space by the Kings County Brewers Collective of Brooklyn, New York. But occasionally, we find bird-inspired artwork so bizarre and indecipherable there isn’t much for us to do except pop open the bottle or can and see what’s inside.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

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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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2012

My first migrating Eastern Phoebe of the year was at the Oradell Reservoir in New Jersey on 15 March, slightly earlier than my average of 19 March. My first migrating phoebe in New York wasn’t until 29 March at Forest Park in my home borough of Queens. When did you get your first phoebe of the year? … a.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Approximately one million hunters annually harvest more than 20 million Mourning Doves , which exceeds the annual harvest of all other migratory game birds combined 3. On federal wildlife refuges and many states’ wildlife management areas, non-toxic shot is required when hunting all game birds.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

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.)

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2019

Growing up in Niagara Falls, New York, June was a celebration of summer. Growing up birding in Western New York was also a time when the old woods of the Niagara Gorge were punctuated with the songs of hidden Red-eyed and Warbling Vireos and the lazy notes of Eastern Wood-Pewees.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2017

Avian-themed teams simply don’t do very well in the big game. The Baltimore Ravens crushed my beloved New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV (2001) to become football’s finest feathered franchise. Analysts ascribe New England’s dominance in the modern era to the Belichick-Brady axis of insane preparation and execution.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

In fact, a game is on even as I write this, which means I’ve got no time for idle banter. There was the White Ibis in New Jersey , the Caspian Tern , the Buff-bellied Sandpiper , another White Ibis , this one in New York’s Orange County, a Bald Eagle , and a host of other birds. How was your weekend?

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Bald Eagle New Jersey 2011 New York 167

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2017

Don’t think we’ve noticed that most of you don’t play along with this game of sharing the best–meaning the coolest, rarest, fanciest, or dearest–bird species you’ve spotted in a given weekend.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2012

Owl Woods and Short-eared Owls from New York to the Galapagos Islands. If owls have traditionally eluded you, get back in the game… your luck may be turning. I’m hearing all kinds of owl howls, from Saw-whets at (where else?) One birder known to many of us even had her life Barn Owl turn up in her backyard!

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Barn Owls 2012 Owls New York 177

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2011

I find myself in that sweet spot of summer with many weeks of gorgeous weather and festivities arrayed out before me, fat times to tide us over for the coming winter (in Rochester, as in Game of Thrones , winter is always coming!) Too bad the birding is so thin. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

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. RE: Waiting.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2022

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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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge : Expand big game hunting. The refuge is already open to migratory bird hunting, upland game hunting, and sport fishing. Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge : Expand migratory bird hunting, upland game hunting, and big game hunting. The refuge is already open to sport fishing.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2011

While the Rovio Angry Birds game franchise is hugely popular and has even led to a post here on 10,000 Birds that speculated on the identification of what the Angry Birds birds actually are , little attention has been paid to those that came before. But over the last several decades they have been expanding their territory to the north.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

I’ve seen Yellow Warblers in the low shrubs of Western New York pastures, the river valleys of Missoula, and the trees of abandoned industrial sites in New York City. They are not shy, not given to skulking in dense underbrush or retreating to the crowns of great trees.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

There is little that is less polluting and less harmful to the planet than hunting wild game responsibly. Barry Rehfeld New York, Nov. Stephanie Jenkins Highland Park, N.J., What is greener than forage-fed meat? Thus, it’s not enough to say that Americans should “cut back on consumption of animal-based foods.”

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In the United States, we learned this lesson just in time to rescue our migratory waterfowl and other prized game species from oblivion at the beginning of the 20th century. No wildlife species, especially a migratory one shared in common by many nations, can withstand commercial hunting without end.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

This just might be a birding joke as old as the hills, but it’s one I hear without fail every year come Christmas Bird Count season in upstate New York. Now, Wood Ducks are somewhat uncommon in eastern New York in winter and after an inevitable few seconds of silence, some smirking wisecracker pipes up with “Do wooden duck counts?”

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Had I known the law better I would have said, “Excuse me, but this trap is not worth over $250 nor have I damaged it with explosives, so in the State of New York you cannot legally charge me with Malicious Mischief.” “I could have you arrested for Destruction of Property, Vandalism, and Malicious Mischief.”. Instead I said, “Go ahead.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Rhode Island New Jersey Wildlife 224

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Check out this video from the premier episode: RESCUE INK UNLEASHED is a new weekly series that documents this unlikely group of animal activists on their crusade to save helpless, abandoned and abused animals. Members of Rescue Ink gather to discuss a game plan on how to catch a group of stray chickens running amok in Queens, New York.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 8, 2010

A New York Times story that ran in 2001 about a homeless dog wandering around a suburban part of New York City, struck a chord with me. The homeless dog, once called Bones, renamed Blue, who played a “hide and seek game” with Cody, to protect himself and stay alive, ends up at Cody’s side. “I

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2019

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.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2018

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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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 17, 2013

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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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

By Mike • March 2, 2011 • 3 comments Tweet Share During a soccer game in Colombia, a player kicked an owl that was on the field. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Soccer Player Kicks Owl on Field? Video and desultory apology here. Wicked, right?

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Owls 2011 Barn Owls Deer 145

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

There was a lot of hunting for Bald Eagles—it is traditionally a game species. The Bald Eagle has the potential to be the Holy Grail of game birds. With the right marinade, Bald Eagle is indistinguishable from a good New York strip steak. We’ve always hunted Bald Eagles. Most people who’ve eaten eagle say it is delicious.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 7, 2008

From the New York Times. It’s like the Saturday night poker game for hardened criminals,” said one of the undercover agents, Sgt. Investigators found that dogfighting was on the rise in Texas and was much more widespread than they had expected. Manning, describing the tense atmosphere at the fights. Disgusting and disturbing.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 13, 2009

The Grand Prize winner will receive a lifetime supply of Rachael Ray Nutrish, an all expense paid trip for two, along with your dog, to New York City for two nights at a pet-friendly hotel, dinner for two at one of Rachael Ray’s favorite restaurants and two tickets to the “Rachael Ray” show. Tags: giveaways news.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2018

We had a dusting of snow here at the end of April in Albany, New York – and two days later we set a record high for May Day with the mercury maxing out at 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2014

Like them or not, in the great game of life, these are winners. We hope you enjoyed them all but if you missed any feel free to click on through. – Alien Species - Rose-ringed Parakeet - The Charge of the Egyptian Goose – Hill Mynas in Miami – Grallards : New Zealand’s Next Extinction or Newest Species?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2013

Still, any day in New York City with 124 species is a day well worth experiencing! It is annoying that the only game bird you can see in Queens are an introduced species. Check out the images below for a taste of my big day… This Rose-breasted Grosbeak gave itself away with its “sneaker squeak.”

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2011

Anyway, it wasn’t until I got older that I realized that Shannon ripped off the Catbird seat saying from famous New York (Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers) broadcaster Red Barber, who himself got it from author and wit James Thurber who attributed to Barber in a short story before Barber started using it.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Historically, National Wildlife Refuges viewed the “Duck Factory” (game bird conservation) as a high priority, while relegating non-game issues to a lower rung. Additional benefits: A Wildlife Conservation Stamp could fund species and habitat projects that are sometimes short-changed in favor of game animal priorities.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2012

I got word of the Grace’s Warbler a bit late in the game. This is no one’s fault but my own; had I partied a bit less hearty on New Year’s Eve, I would have stuck with my original plan of going birding on January 1, which in turn would have led me to check the rare bird alerts before I went outside.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2020

The latter shows up in New York more frequently but the former is much more likely to be identified, regardless of how bad a look you get. And are you as excited as I am to play this game again? It’s just a matter of time before it happens again and I will be there to find it! I’d like to be the one to find it.

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