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Amazing New York State Pelagic Trip

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They were: Audubon’s Shearwater – This is the last regularly occurring shearwater in New York State that I had yet to ever lay eyes on. We had three species of storm-petrel keeping us busy: Wilson’s Storm-Petrel , Band-rumped Storm-Petrel , and Leach’s Storm-Petrel. a beautiful dawn sky. And what birds!

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South Polar Skuas on a New York Pelagic

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It was a pelagic trip organized by See Life Paulagics and it was a pretty memorable trip with five species of shearwater, Leach’s Storm-Petrels , Wilson’s Storm-Petrels , a variety of dolphins, some sharks, and a variety of other sea life. Three South Polar Skuas at once!

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Snowy Owl Ethics

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Greg Lawrence is a long-time friend of 10,000 Birds and a birding machine in the Rochester, New York, area. He is currently a Fish and Wildlife Technician with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research Foundation for SUNY. Species have value.

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Juniper, plagues, and waxwings – Arrowood Farm-Brewery: Waxwing Juniper Farmhouse Ale

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Foreboding superstitions about the waxwing persisted into the twentieth century: an irruption of this species in Great Britain during the winter of 1913-1914 was viewed in hindsight as a harbinger of World War I, which broke out the following summer, as depicted in Pestvogel (2016) by American artist Walton Ford (born 1960).

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Birding in the Silly Season.

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I was returning from a trip to Central Park in New York, tired but flushed with pleasure from getting a good look at a Prothonotary Warbler. When we got home, she laid me out for my medicated nap and called in the professionals that you see credited beneath the photos. “Ooooh look! A Yellow Warbler !”

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Smoking is (good) for the birds

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Back in the 1980s, it became popular for biologists to consider plant secondary compounds in understanding inter-species relationships and other ecological matters. European Starling in New York City trying to bum a cigarette (photo by Corey, from HERE ) But I digress. The next stage in this research is obvious.

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From Today's New York Times

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7, 2008 The writer is director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment , Harvard Medical School. Sarah Palin of Alaska—that the Fish and Wildlife Service should not list the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because science doesn’t support doing so—doesn’t persuade. Eric Chivian Boston, Jan.