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New York Times Bird Week

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The New York Times blog, City Room, will be holding a “ Bird Week &# this week. The city’s avian equivalent of convention season is just around the corner: the second week in May marks the peak of spring bird migration in New York City, with the maximum numbers of species and individual birds passing through town.

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New Frog Species Discovered – In New York City!

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The New York Times has the story of this most improbable of discoveries.

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The Parrots of Howard Beach

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Perhaps most known throughout New York City for mafia ties and a couple of hate crimes against African-Americans, Howard Beach was devastated by Hurricane Sandy. For most residents of the five boroughs, parrots are an anomalous sight in New York City. Monk Parakeets at their very large nest in Howard Beach.

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Manhattan’s first nesting Common Ravens

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Over the last five or six years, Common Ravens have been sighted with increasing frequency in New York City, part of a resurgence throughout the Northeast after more than a century of regional extirpation. They’ve also recently nested in the Bronx and nearby in New Jersey. But let’s back up for a minute.

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Animal Ethics

This holds true whether it is in the Democratic Republic of Congo or right here in New York City, where Cyrus R. Money for greater local enforcement is now the most pressing need to combat poachers and the armed wildlife trade syndicates to which they are increasingly linked.

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Bette Midler is “mad” about birds

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I’m absolutely mad about them — I have been my whole life,” she told a packed ballroom at New York City’s Plaza Hotel last Thursday at a National Audubon Society dinner to honor two leading conservationists. Bette Midler , conservationist and star of screen and stage, has a thing for birds.

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

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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. New York Times , Dec.

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