10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2020

Those of us in the United States are celebrating Memorial Day Weekend, normally a time to gather with friends and family for barbecues, beach outings, and other fun group activities. While Mike was busy looking for breeding wood-warblers I spent my time scouring Queens for something new for my year list.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Greg Lawrence is a long-time friend of 10,000 Birds and a birding machine in the Rochester, New York, area. He is currently a Fish and Wildlife Technician with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research Foundation for SUNY. Evans, and D. Rodewald, editor).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2020

With 18 species of native Psittacids to choose from, birding in Costa Rica is always a thrill, especially for someone who grew up in parrotless Niagara Falls, New York! They seem to be particularly interested in a group of large trees in a nearby coffee farm. I see and hear a small flock of these small Amazons on a daily basis.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

This is when we might see the greatest variety and numbers of wood-warblers, where we can watch dizzying groups of swallows zip through the skies as kettles of Turkey Vultures , and Broad-winged and Swainson’s Hawks flow towards South America. It picks up in September but the biggest numbers seem to pass through Costa Rica in October.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 7, 2015

1, 2015 The writer is director of advocacy and policy for Farm Sanctuary, a national farm animal protection group.' There is no difference between cruelty to a pig or a dog or a hen or a cat, and so the sooner we relegate these awful devices to the dustbin of history, the better. FRIEDRICH Washington, Jan.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 20, 2014

To the Editor: Once again people associated with the animal rights group PETA ( letter , June 19) have tried to disparage the commitment circuses have for animal care and conservation. Despite the claims made in the letter, circuses like Ringling Bros.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

I would lay odds that we birders geek out to all manner of natural phenomena at a higher rate than almost any other group. The winds this weekend in western New York must have been favorable for migration, because the only nonresident I could track down was a Swainson’s Thrush. What do you think?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2020

As always, we were high above the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens, perched precariously on the platform atop Battery Harris, the old artillery battery built to defend New York Harbor in World War II. And who would have thoughts that a group of Boy Scouts could nearly derail our whole endeavor? Odd, but true.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

In the late nineteenth century, Eugene Schieffelin, a wealthy New York drug manufacturer, resolved to introduce to North America every species of bird mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare. Schieffelin was long a leading figure in the American Acclimatization Society, a bizarre group of meddlers based in New York City.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2022

While growing up in Niagara Falls, New York, I often wondered if the warm and humid weather was similar to the constant short-wearing climes of tropical places. The biggest birding news for Costa Rica was a sighting of an adult Harpy Eagle in northern Costa Rica , near Boca Tapada.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Personally, I love the day because I know that while I am out listening for owls and watching mixed flocks in Costa Rica, countless other members of the birding tribe are doing the same over there in the windswept plains of Rajastan, in the dripping cloud forests of Peru, in birdy New York’s Central Park, and so many other special places.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2015

Science is fairly well established that yawning can spread like wildfire among groups of humans, as well as a few other mammals. New research suggests that the phenomenon of contagious yawning can also be seen in birds. Click here to go directly to the study.).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2014

This may make it very popular amongst European birders who can relate, but it doesn’t make it much of a deal within such an illustrous group as the dabbling ducks. Now, for comparison’s sake, New York City has around 8 million people on 800 square kilometres, or 10,000 / km². The Sunda Teal is a brown duck.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Why, when a group of birders stare through a scope at the same flock of birds, does one birder find the different bird before the other birders? Why, when a group of birders are all searching some habitat for a previously-reported bird, does one birder refind the bird before the others? Is there a reason?

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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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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Signaling theory examines communication between individuals and groups, within and across species, focusing on whether signals–communications containing complex information–are honest or deceptive and how the exchange of these signals impacts the individuals involved and the larger group or groups to which they belong.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Starting off at Strawberry Fields, I dodged a slooooow tour group and was almost immediately rewarded by a Black-and-White Warbler , followed closely by an American Redstart and an eye-level Magnolia Warbler that really brought home to me how very out-of-shape the warbler i.d. lobe of my brain has become. lobe of my brain has become.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2011

Waterfowl represented the first group of birds on my list for what should be obvious reasons. Although winter presents the best opportunities for spotting a diversity of waterfowl, the same handful of species makes up at least 90% of all sightings in the New York Metro area no matter what time of year it is.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2012

The American Acclimatization Society was a group founded in New York City in 1871 dedicated to introducing European flora and fauna into North America for “both economic and cultural reasons. 1 ” By 1877 New York pharmacist Eugene Schieffelin, an avid admirer of Shakespeare, was the society’s driving force.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 16, 2009

The meat and dairy industries want to keep their operations away from the public’s discriminating eyes, but as groups like PETA and the Humane Society have shown us in their graphic and disturbing undercover investigations, factory farms are mechanized madness and slaughterhouses are torture chambers to these unfortunate and feeling beings.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Considering the ten most recent additions before this March averaged six months apart getting six new species in eight months is mind-blowing. Way back in March we were in the midst of a global pandemic and Queens was the epicenter of the epicenter that was New York City. Fortunately, there are birds to help. Two-for-two!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

How lazy and/or bad are these New York City birders? I’ve been monitoring the listservs, Facebook groups, and Twitter alerts. Everyone in New York City is losing their mind now. Sparrow has successfully completed Operation Duck Drop. What an excellent operative! Now begins the waiting game. To: Tyrannus.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2012

I found the experience of authentically aggressive heat rather refreshing, but much prefer my moderate New York summers! Multiple groups of trogons with young in the United States seems surreal, but is entirely possible in the right place.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

People of all ages and backgrounds brighten the ride and the book as they welcome Dorian to their homes (his blog asked for shelter and people responded, he also used a biking home-share group and motels) and help him find elusive birds (although Dorian is mostly on his own, there are occasions when help is crucial).

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

The American Medical Association, the Infectious Disease Society of America and the American Academy of Pediatrics are among the more than 350 health, agriculture and other groups nationwide that have endorsed this bill. Slaughter Member of Congress, 28th District, New York Washington, Sept.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 20, 2010

I distribute locally produced, free-range eggs from my home to a small group of friends, but these kinds of eggs are widely available through farmers' markets at prices that range from $2 to $3.50 To the Editor: Re " A Hen's Space to Roost ” (Week in Review, Aug.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

What’s nice about using an app instead of a paper field guide is that you can search by name, banding code, or Latin name and you can also reorder the species taxonomically or alphabetically by first or last name or gather similar species together into family groups. by the Mitch Waite Group in order to do this review.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2014

Several months ago, a group of bat researchers spent the night recording the sounds of a marshy Spanish forest. Second, and this is recent, new research indicates that Birds that migrate at night enter a state of sleepless mania and gorge on foods by day, behaviors mediated by their biological clocks. A group of researchers at the N.C.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

The birds are instantly recognizable to anyone who’s birded New York City: Mourning Dove, Rock Pigeon, Cedar Waxwing, Brown-headed Cowbird, American Robin, House Sparrow, European Starling. Cornell Lab Publishing Group, Wundermill Books, March 2019. It’s a very specific illustration. Author Mya Thompson has a Ph.D.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 12, 2010

Since California does not produce all the eggs it eats, this new law will have a wider effect on the industry; every producer who hopes to sell eggs in the state must meet its regulations.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 21, 2010

Groups like the American Veterinary Medical Association support these modern egg-laying housing systems. These modern systems allow hens to stand up, turn around, lie down and walk to clean water and nutritious food troughs.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 11, 2013

It’s time to capture your cat’s funniest or most adventurous moment and enter “ The Friskies ” for your opportunity to win a $5,000 cash prize and a custom-made gold plated Friskies Catuette, and take part in the live Award Show in New York City this fall. The Call for Entries is open now through July 15, 2013.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Yesterday morning Dick Veit reported a Bell’s Vireo , what would be the third in history of New York State, at Mount Loretto Unique Area on Staten Island, the forgotten borough of New York City. Kevin McGowan shared the following on the New York State listserv: Has anyone heard this bird call?

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

If not, be sure to set your DVR for Friday and watch, it’s a great show about an unlikely group of animal heroes. 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.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 7, 2009

Is it treasonous to worry about the influence of interest groups on regulation? Government regulation is inevitably a political animal; it’s never guided purely, or even largely, by disinterested science. Is it treasonous to fear that centralizing more power in Washington will result in unforeseen negative consequences?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* The book is richly illustrated with contributions from a group of birders/photographers who were fortunate to see and document many of the vagrants covered. The two men have co-authored several previous articles on avian vagrancy.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

However, I will pick a fight with the Rip Van Winkle Rod and Gun Club in Palenville, New York, which is sponsoring their fourth annual “Crow Down” March 29-30, 2014. New York Senators Jack Martins (R-Mineola) and Tony Avella (D-Queens) have co-sponsored a bill (#S.4074)

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