10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The first few chapters about the ride itself read like Charlie Chaplin slapstick, a combination of comedy and tragedy, as we “watch” a bundled-up Dorian biking in the face of a polar vortex in Massachusetts, almost getting killed on the Cross Bronx Expressway in New York City (as a New Yorker, I was open-mouthed in shock), and throwing (..)

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2011

In other words, it is once again summer in New York City. Painfully hot. Fried-egg-on-a-sidewalk hot. Hate-the-sun hot. Disgustingly hot. Wander-the-apartment-in-just-underwear hot. Like last year I am doing my best to stay cool and thought I would try to help all of you wonderful readers do the same. … a.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

I grew up in Whitestone, and though the birds were not around at that time, I love the fact that they decided to populate this particular area of New York City. According to a December 1970 article in the New York Times , there was a flock of 9 to 12 birds in Fort Tilden. Not in Whitestone, that came later.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

When I first saw the post on the New York State listserv about the Hooded Crow on Staten Island I wasn’t going to twitch it. It had to be an escaped bird or at least one that didn’t make it to the southernmost borough in New York City under its own power but by riding a boat.*

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

This was the downfall of an extremely competent New York City birder who recently saw a large wading bird fly by at a distance at Jamaica Bay with its neck extended. Other birders, smelling blood, moved in for the kill and the bird was revealed to be a Little Blue Heron flying with its neck extended for some unknown reason.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

House Sparrows were introduced to New York City in 1852 and later in other areas. Now, there is a new study that has significant advantages of the Bumpus study, though the latter will still be useful in teaching about evolution because of its limitations and the questions it raises. because of collisions with vehicles.

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JANUARY 1, 2013

I thought of this experience as I read Still the Same Hawk , a collection of twelve essays about nature and New York City, edited by John Waldman. Anne Matthews’ too-brief musings on the possible futures of the city offer cinematic utopian and dystopian possibilities to ponder.

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JANUARY 21, 2012

Behind the Outback Steakhouse at Edgewater Commons, a shopping center across the Hudson River from New York City, is a rusted pile of wreckage that is gradually falling apart and into the river. I work in New Jersey and my job often takes me to random spots around the northeastern portion of the state.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family.

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MARCH 14, 2011

These Blasts From The Past New York City Canada Goose “Kill Zones&# Revealed Help Save Migratory Birds! About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Fitting, since New York City and London were the centers of the millinery trade. side, the writings of New York City reformer Mary Van Kleeck. Both campaigns led to the establishment of national, influential conservation organizations–National Audubon Society in the U.S. This is good stuff.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2017

And, when the eagle fights and ultimately kills the fox, we get a bloody glimpse into another side of eagle hunting—its savagery and its original purpose. The Eagle Huntress was conceived and directed by Otto Bell, a British filmmaker currently based in New York City. It’s exciting.

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MARCH 20, 2017

In “Summer of the Sparrow,” actress and ABA board member Lili Taylor relates a dramatic tale of murderous passion directed towards a House Sparrow who has killed the Bluebird babies in her nest boxes. This story of avian hatred may be the most revolutionary essay in a book full of paeans to birds and birding.). Braunfield.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Now, last December I took my young nephews, Jake and Zach, to a terrific exhibit, Frogs: A Chorus of Colors at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Chapter 2, Size and shape, colour and markings , explores the physical diversity and variability of frogs (and toads).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

There are owls in New York City. The two stories about New York City are personal favorites, of course. Big owls: Barred Owls on Riverside Drive and down the path from Harlem Meer, a Great Horned Owl in Central Park’s Ramble.

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APRIL 6, 2021

It is early April as I write this, and migration is beginning to trickle through to New York City. Climate change looms large over all migration research, it “is reshaping every single thing about migration” (p.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

It was the same day George Floyd was killed. I was concerned and horrified that this happened in my city and astonished when this seemingly local story became national then international news. I remember that day.

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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. It’s a huge subject, especially when you start looking at owl symbolism as it appears in art.

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APRIL 16, 2017

One of them had to be injured, possibly killed. It kills rails by clamping down on their bills as they search for food, or cripples rails by clamping down on their toes (the article estimated 75% of California Clapper Rails lost toes to these mussels).* A happy circumstance, but not an unusual one.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

In it, Bloch becomes LeChiffre, Fleming becomes Mathis and Popov becomes 007 (it does sound a bit better than Tricycle Licensed to Kill), while the rest of the gambling scene remains the same. Living in the Caribbean, in 1953 Fleming was writing the Casino Royale.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Without further ado, here are our Best Birds of the Year for 2015… Jochen makes us all jealous with a bird that most of us would kill to see. 2015 was challenging, at best, on a personal level but it was a fantastic year for birds in New York City. 2015 was great and here’s hoping 2016 will be even better.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

It took several days in Florida for the idea that I was pretty much surrounded by giant reptiles that could kill me to sink in to my brain. As a resident of New York City the only predator I am ever concerned about while birding near my home is other people. Though alligator attacks are rare they do happen.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Upland Sandpiper I found was only the second I had ever seen in Queens and it stuck around for the rest of the day, allowing dozens of birders to see this declining and hard-to-find-in-New-York-City shorebird. Eastern Screech-Owl, 22 March, Alley Pond Park, Queens, New York. I wonder if they taste good?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

Its goal was to limit the greedy collecting of birds killed for the plume trade, the bird meat trade (as in the wholesale slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon), and for sport (again, the Passenger Pigeon and declining numbers of waterfowl). I think birders will enjoy reading this political history of the MBTA.

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