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Audubon’s Footsteps

10,000 Birds

Each chapter of Clavreul’s book covers his revisitation of one of these extended Audubon trips, with a final chapter covering New York City, where Audubon first set foot on American soil, in 1803. (His Logan, reviewed previously on this site by Carrie.).

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A Most Remarkable Book

10,000 Birds

Johnny rooks love novelty, crave company, hate boredom, and do risky things all the time, investigating anything that catches their curious eyes. Knopf, New York, $30 (U.S.); $40 (Canada). As Meiburg puts it, Peregrines love solitude, crave routine, and avoid mistakes.

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Power Companies and Springtime Tree Removal

10,000 Birds

Maggie Ciarcia, a solo wildlife rehabilitator in Carmel, NY specializing in small mammals and game birds, received a notice from New York State Electric and Gas that tree trimming was scheduled for her neighborhood and someone would contact her. 3) Investigate creating a town ordinance. But back to power companies.

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Mysteries of the Mitred Parakeets

10,000 Birds

Seth Ausubel is one of the best birders in Queens, New York, and Corey is ever-so-thankful that Seth does not use eBird because that way Corey can pretend that he is the top lister in the borough. One of the least known stories of New York birding is the tale of the wild Mitred Parakeets. How did they get there?

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

My surprise at reading such a detailed account (I don’t have Klem’s dissertation in front of me, but I’m imagining this is a more personal retelling) was tempered by the thought that Klem wasn’t describing any old research, this was the FIRST research project investigating why birds fly into glass.

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Operation Duck Drop

10,000 Birds

The following emails were intercepted by our crack team of investigative journalists. How lazy and/or bad are these New York City birders? Everyone in New York City is losing their mind now. They are reprinted here in their entirety in the public interest. Sparrow has successfully completed Operation Duck Drop.

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Thoroughbred Dealer Convicted of Animal Cruelty

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Prominent New York thoroughbred breeder and owner Ernie Paragallo was convicted Wednesday of mistreating dozens of malnourished horses on his Hudson Valley farm. The 52-year-old Long Island resident was charged after state police and animal welfare investigators raided his farm in Coxsackie in April and seized 177 malnourished horses.