10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2019

That’s how I feel about the bitter cold and ice that grip Rochester and the Finger Lakes region right now. Corey will continue to set the 2019 pace for New York City birders by finding birds everywhere. The drawback in this part of the planet is now painfully evident.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Daisy agreed to the outing because it was sunny and nice and Edgemere, once mosquito season is over, is actually a really nice place for a family outing what with the long view of the New York City skyline and the refreshing air blowing off the bay. Trips Edgemere New York City phoebes Queens rarities Say''s Phoebe'

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2019

Spring migration will be here before you know it, right? Corey enjoyed leading a New York City Audubon bird walk at Forest Park on Saturday morning and visiting Breezy Point on Sunday. Fortunately, I was able to spot one extremely quiet and still bird… I think it was frozen!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The ABA has made an effort to diversify both its membership and birding generally, particularly after the incident involving Christian Cooper in Central Park in New York City. Expanding the ABA Area would be a step in the right direction.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2020

I am a birder living in the epicenter of the epicenter of COVID-19 right now. New York City is the hottest of hot spots, and not in the fun, eBird meaning of the term but in the “holy moly our health system is going to collapse” meaning of the term.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

The fact that this hour falls in the middle of the night means that most people sleep right through it, but I wonder what would happen if you observes a nocturnal bird like an owl during the hour that gets reset. I found myself in a beautiful part of New York that was so remote that birds apparently couldn’t find it.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2012

Disbelief probably seems like the proper response to the idea that there are woodpeckers in New York City. But even birders might be surprised to learn that eight species of woodpecker have graced New York City’s five boroughs with their presence! After all, woodpeckers peck on trees, not skyscrapers.

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Animal Person

APRIL 21, 2009

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2018

New York state is burning right now, or at least the air feels as if it’s on fire. Corey did not see much that was too exciting in what little birding he did during a scorcher of a weekend in New York City. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2015

It being mid-August in New York City there is one place where I have to be as often as I can. I just wish I knew how this chase ended: the Greater Yellowlegs made some slick moves but the falcon stayed right with it until they both were out of sight. Coming to New York City any time between now and the end of September?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2019

Over the last couple of weeks Fish Crows have flooded back into New York City, early harbingers of spring, and those that stuck around have become much more vocal, meaning that birders can now put them on their checklist instead of “crow sp.” The bird on the right fed the bird on the left repeatedly. .

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2014

Assuming that your over-worked eyes are as blurry as mine at the moment, we should get right down to business and talk birds… The best of the many warblers I uncovered at Cobbs Hill this weekend was an entirely improbable Kentucky Warbler. What a weekend for those of us experiencing the exhilaration of spring migration!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Considering the ten most recent additions before this March averaged six months apart getting six new species in eight months is mind-blowing. Way back in March we were in the midst of a global pandemic and Queens was the epicenter of the epicenter that was New York City. Fortunately, there are birds to help.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The crisp, cool air in the early morning signifies the end of another hot and humid New York City summer, the end of air conditioning, and the return of cool breezes through open windows. Should I stay at one of the bigger New York City parks that serve as migrant traps? Should I head for the coast?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2014

Now that I live in New York City I rarely manage to make it that far north and when I do it tends to be winter, which is kind of odd. Montreal, while far to the north of New York City, is in Canada, which is certainly not the Adirondacks. After all, it was only a couple of hours north of my house.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

In the late nineteenth century, Eugene Schieffelin, a wealthy New York drug manufacturer, resolved to introduce to North America every species of bird mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare. Schieffelin was long a leading figure in the American Acclimatization Society, a bizarre group of meddlers based in New York City.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

Returning to New York, however briefly, has been a joyful reunion — not just with old friends, but with my beloved, quirky New York City birds. Shortly after I arrived I got word of the Gray-hooded Gull at Coney Island, and of course I went after it right away.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2019

My first thought was that it was probably a hoax but I found the link and shared it to the New York Birders Facebook page, hoping to find out if anyone knew if it was the real deal. Unfortunately, we were heading south on Woodhaven Boulevard along with at least half of the population of New York City.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

The poem is on the left side of each two-page spread and a factual paragraph about the nesting process–usually brief, but sometimes fairly detailed–is located on the right side. And, the young girl, Ruby, is a unique individual–a girl with too much energy for a city apartment. It’s a very specific illustration.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2013

We New York birders should be awash in migrating wood-warblers, flycatchers, vireos, tanagers, and a host of other birds right now. That is just not right at all. It is 6 May. Instead, the spring migration of 2013 has been largely a bust. It’s 6 May and I haven’t seen a Black-throated Green Warbler yet!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Formerly, as you can tell from its name, it was a military base, mostly tasked with keeping New York Harbor safe from attack. I was joined on the platform by Luke Musher, a recent transplant to New York City who I met a week earlier in the same location with Doug Gochfeld. And this bird was way out over the water.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, Donna just wrote a review of this excellent book of essays which especially includes a stellar look at why New York City birding is the best birding. Just go to the upper right hand corner of this here blog, enter your email.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

Oh, right, the South Nassau Christmas Bird Count was today and a huge number of New York City and Long Island birders take part in that count every year – and none of them were on their own territory anymore! How did so many birders get to Point Lookout so quickly?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

Flatrock Brook is in the the city of Englewood, New Jersey, just across the George Washington Bridge from New York City. There is a flock of Wild Turkeys that strut around like they own the place and they might very well be right.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2013

Add to that the fact that only two Long-eared Owls have been reported to eBird in Queens since 1990 and you can see why the fact that Asio otus has eluded me in New York City’s finest borough is not shocking to me. Here is the horrible image again, just because it seems right. Number 298 in Queens !

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2014

Though I’d never spotted them, the range map for Tundra Swans does show them as passage migrants right smack dab over the Homestead, and we’re near their wintering grounds, so March seemed right. I’ve only seen Orchard Orioles in the parks of New York City, and that is right and proper.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

New York City makes it clear that this isn’t quite correct. According to the data the authors gathered from banded and recovered Blue Jays , the species shows both a northward post-breeding dispersal (which we’re probably seeing right now, in September) and a southward migration.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2013

My parents made the drive down to New York City to visit Daisy, Desi, and me in Queens on Sunday and I had a great plan for the day. This may come as somewhat of a surprise to those who don’t know about it but the waters just off of Queens can apparently be pretty good for whales at the right time of year.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2013

After all, when the president is in town you want to pull out all the stops, though I think I might have taken it too far when I tried to convince him that the cicadas had emerged only after hearing that he would be in New York City. The sound of so many cicadas is just awesome, as is the sight of so many cicadas.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2014

Every spring they totally steal the show in the northeast and you really can’t blame birders for abandoning their jobs, their families, and their sanity as they rush to New York City’s abundant and amazing parks to see the show live and in technicolor. … Birds migration New York City wood-warblers'

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

And there would have been essentially none if a Kirtland’s Warbler hadn’t shown up in New York City. They mostly look rather plain ( Wilson’s Warbler ) or like they’d just had a territorial fight right across a painter’s palette. Like the fine, fine sparrows. Not so with sparrows.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2014

All we do is complain about the lack of migrating birds so far and in New York City if southeast winds are blowing we are nearly despondent because southeast winds mean that the birds are moving north but the easterly component of the winds keep usually keep the bulk of birds to our west.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I had a great half-day out with Jeff in Staten Island enjoying one of the coolest natural phenomena that the New York City region has to offer. The City of Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve was the highlight, with so many birds in so short a time that my head is still spinning. The Scarlet Ibis show at Caroni Swamp.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2013

In New York City, I did not see Pileated Woodpeckers at all, though I heard rumors of them from the Bronx. Missoula was a place riddled with nature trails, where the parks were allowed to go to snags and the city faded into the mountains. As big as a crow, right at eye level. I didn’t know. A woodpecker.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

A surprise was a Common Merganser , a bird we don’t see much in New York City and especially not flying over the coast in Brooklyn. That’s right, we birded! We made our way out past Breezy and were soon watching Northern Gannets plunge-dive and the first of our two Razorbills.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2016

We reserve the right to use answers in a future 10,000 Birds posting. I will select the winner of a copy of American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New York by putting all entries into my NYSOA cap, shaking it up, and picking out one terrific comment about the birds of NYS with my eyes closed.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2014

While the environmental disaster was unfolding in New Jersey, New York beaches seemed free of the plants but that all changed in October 2012. A large patch of sand sedge was found on the beach at Arverne-by-the-Sea by botanist Heather Liljengren of the New York City parks department just before Hurricane Sandy hit.

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