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Common Ringed Plover

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This post is not a twitch, but it is much more fun to read if you first dwell upon the sentiments from the last picture of Corey’s post from East Pond, Jamaica Bay, 2015 It would be a bold birder that calls a Common Ringed Plover , Charadrius hiaticula where Semi-palmated Plover , C. semipalmatus is also an option.

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Free Housing in New York City

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Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, NY, April 2010 Everyone knows that New York City is an extremely expensive place to live. If one is lucky enough to find a place that one likes one must often pay in rent per month what would easily be a mortgage payment in a more sane part of the country.

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The Queens List Won’t Stop Growing

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Long-eared Owl – This is another owl species that was, like most winters, not seen in Queens (though tantalizing second-hand reports of one at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge during the Brooklyn CBC reached me). My long overdue first Queens Snow Bunting and I survived seeing it at Jamaica Bay ! Snow Bunting – Yes!

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Pectoral Sandpipers Lookin’ for Love in All the Right Places

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Like the ladies’ man above which Corey photographed a few years ago at Jamaica Bay in NYC.). In some cases the males strayed from their Alaska home base for a bit of far-flung sex tourism in Canada and Russia.). —Dion, “The Wanderer” When it comes to being a Romeo on the run, few birds can match the Pectoral Sandpiper.

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New York State Big Year?

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I first met Anthony Collerton when he was trying to see the Barrow’s Goldeneye at Jamaica Bay back in February. It really depends on where the strays and vagrants show up in the second half of the year. The other obvious piece of advice is to go for every vagrant or stray as soon as you hear about it.

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Our Best Birds of 2020

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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. The closest I’ve ever come to breaking that run was in 2014, when I only had six lifers all year. So that takes care of Mike: phalaropes are pretty amazing birds.

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