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Hooded Crow in Staten Island, New York

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When I first saw the post on the New York State listserv about the Hooded Crow on Staten Island I wasn’t going to twitch it. It had to be an escaped bird or at least one that didn’t make it to the southernmost borough in New York City under its own power but by riding a boat.* Get to Staten Island, posthaste!

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How to see a Black Woodpecker in Germany

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Black Woodpeckers are usually easy to find in Germany. At least one birder will now likely grab his war hammer and check flight availabilities from New York to Frankfurt as well as average prison sentences in Germany for first degree murder. Here in Germany, we have them. But this is really unnecessary. Any forest.

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The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana

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Originally from India and the vicinity, it is believed that they had already undergone two major expansions – through Asia Minor in the 1600s, and then across Europe in the 1900s – when they first appeared in North America. Bonaparte’s Gulls on the Niagara River Bird Feeders in Forest Park What is a Tern?

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A Problem with Gulls

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It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Germany had lost one of its most promising ornithological researchers, and one of its most active birders. RECENT POSTS More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

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Black Woodpecker: Officially a Nemesis

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Sure, occasionally a bird has given me problems, like Black-backed Woodpeckers back in 2007 when I was doing an alleged Big Year in New York State, but not seeing a bird for a single year does not make it a nemesis. But Black Woodpecker ?

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Beautiful Blue Backyard Bird

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Palm Warblers in Central Park Answers to A Diabolical Quick Quiz Cow Birds About the Author Jochen Jochen Roeder was born in Germany and raised to be a birder. Here in Germany, where garbage is a costly thing to get rid of, it’s big “sleek and white-collar&# business. And definitely take a look at gulls. Wicked, right?

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Our Best Birds of 2020

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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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