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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. Buckley, Walter Sedwitz, William J. Norse, and John Kieran. “Wait! ” you’re probably saying.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

People who move out here from the city generally feel the same way. You report that Susan Predl, a senior biologist with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, uses “distance sampling” to count the deer that managed to survive the recent county-organized, taxpayer-financed slaughter.