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Free Housing in New York City

10,000 Birds

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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Feral Cats More Important Than Humans?

10,000 Birds

Such was the sad fate of a New York City veterinarian who refused to release a stray cat she treated back to a feral cat freak who planned to release the cat back into a feral cat colony. News cats New York City' She was cyber-bullied, her business was destroyed, and she took her own life.

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A Close Encounter with a Red-necked Grebe

10,000 Birds

Though Red-necked Grebes are around in small numbers each winter in New York City and Long Island they generally aren’t a terribly cooperative bird: even last winter when large numbers came south because they were frozen out up north the best looks I managed were of relatively distant birds. It didn’t.

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The Blue House Dog

4 The Love Of Animals

A New York Times story that ran in 2001 about a homeless dog wandering around a suburban part of New York City, struck a chord with me. At the end, the dog catcher doesn’t come to their neighborhood anymore because there are no stray dogs there anymore. Blue likes it that way,” Cody says, “and so do I.”.

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The Queens List Won’t Stop Growing

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Queens, the finest borough in New York City, as I may have mentioned before, is where I have now seen a whopping 279 species! Though the boat departed from Nassau County we strayed into Queens for a good portion of the trip. What species will be the ten to get me to 289? John deserves credit for predicting this one.

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Lewis's Woodpecker in New York State

10,000 Birds

Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to New York State. It has now returned to seek revenge and wreak havoc in Ontario county before moving on to New York City. Melanerpes lewis is, to put it simply, a really cool bird. Why so serious, Corey? Mwahahahahaaaaar!

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Our Best Birds of 2020

10,000 Birds

Redgannet, you’ll have to come visit New York City sometime soon. 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. Clare (and Grant!)

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