10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Blame human intervention in the form of breeding programs so that there would be more to hunt. New York City has famously taken to catching and gassing Canada Geese so it is actually getting difficult to find decent-sized flocks of the birds in Brooklyn and Queens. That is really a shame. It’s not my fault!

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Geese Canada New York City Birds 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2017

Even when hunting in sub-freezing temperatures on the edge of the Mongolian border or doing her chores around the family ger (yurt) in the isolated Altai Mountains, Aisholpan beams. It’s constructed in three acts: Home, Festival, Hunting. Aisholpan will not be considered a true Eagle Hunter till she successfully hunts.

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Eagles Mongolia Hunters Hunting 102

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2011

In New York State , however, the Short-eared Owl is considered an endangered species and it has likely been extirpated as a breeder in several of its former strongholds.

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Owls New York City New York Rodents 145

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

I was only recently introduced to the airport by a fellow Queens birder who will remain anonymous here mostly because the property is owned by New York City and one technically shouldn’t be there.

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New York City New York Birds Homelessness 153

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2012

The behavior could be especially disastrous for waterfowl, which are hunted by people, but less so for passerines, or perching birds, which regularly come into people’s bird feeders. In my neighborhood and across New York City, there are quite a few places with signs like the one above.

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Birds New York City Fast Food Geese 243

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

These Blasts From The Past New York City Canada Goose “Kill Zones&# Revealed Help Save Migratory Birds! Say Hello to the South Hill Crossbill Snipe Hunt in the Bird Blogosphere 3 Million Page Views!

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2011 Deer New York New York City 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

It is my belief that the birds were migrating, though one New York birder suggested that they might have been flying out for some crepuscular feeding. Either way, it was a heck of a sight and another example of why Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is the best place in New York City to see amazing wildlife spectacles.

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica New York 171

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

Another surprise is the two pieces on hunting, an interesting change from the essays on bird feeding in volume one. Braunfield. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. In the next essay, J. Illustration for J. Drew Lanham’s “Soul Food: Wild Turkeys and Wandering Warblers” © 2017 by Robert A.

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2017 Costa Rica 2007 Hunters 141

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2011

Queens, the finest borough in New York City, as I may have mentioned before, is where I have now seen a whopping 279 species! It was hunting around the edges of the West Pond of Jamaica Bay back at the beginning of March, a day that I saw both the individual in Queens and one in Brooklyn. Snow Bunting – Yes!

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Jamaica Owls 2010 New York City 157

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2013

Our missing it while it sat in that spot seemed impossible so rather than accept the title of blundering dunderheads we decided that we must have searched too early, while the owl was still hunting, before it had returned to its roost for the day.

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Owls Skunks Hunting New York City 168

Animal Ethics

MAY 11, 2008

People who move out here from the city generally feel the same way.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York New Jersey Deer 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Ackerman interviews Robyn Fleming, a research librarian at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, who is documenting every owl-related artwork in the museum’s halls and storerooms, so far identifying 550 pieces. They are also hunted. They roost and hunt, at night (mostly) when we can’t see them.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 213

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

One of the black-crowns and the Green Heron were clearly in hunting mode, leaning over the water, staring intently. Om-nom-nom-nom… And this isn’t a new behavior at the location: when herons find a food source they don’t forget it. a hungry Green Heron. …

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Fish New York City New York Hunting 110

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

Great Frigatebirds engage in “unihemispheric sleep” on hunting trips of six to ten days, never landing, sleeping less than an hour in a 24-hour cycle, often keeping one-half of their brain awake while the other slept. It is early April as I write this, and migration is beginning to trickle through to New York City.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 253

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2015

I was there for awhile on Friday afternoon and, as usual, enjoyed my time there, mostly because of a single amazingly cooperative Yellow-crowned Night-Heron that was so intent on hunting fiddler crabs that it essentially ignored both me and my digiscoping rig, at times only five meters from where the bird foraged.

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New York City New York Hunting Sparrows 205

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Peter’s, is in Albany, 140 miles north of my current home in Queens, I had the opportunity to both stop in and see my dad on Saturday and Sunday and bird some places I haven’t had the chance to visit since I moved to New York City. I was right!

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New York City New York 2006 Hunting 140

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Redgannet, you’ll have to come visit New York City sometime soon. As a bittersweet afterthought, it was also the last bird I photographed in India before losing my sponsored travel opportunities. I’m sure once we get a vaccine that I can show you something better than a Black Kite ! Clare (and Grant!)

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2020 Birds Germany Costa Rica 233

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

For some reason, even though there are Mandarin Ducks in zoos throughout New York City, this escapee has become an internationally known tourist attraction, even heading the New York Times list of “Five Times the Internet Was Actually Fun in 2018.”

2018 157

2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

Plume hunting raged supreme 150 years ago, when egret feathers were part of a worldwide trade in feathers and other bird parts, used for women’s hats and other articles of clothing (but mostly hats), delighting the upper classes and practically wiping out bird species. It has become the cornerstone of U.S.

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Connecticut Washington Legislation Hunting 147