10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2017

A New York City Parks Department contractor just wiped out a breeding population of sparrows in tons of trouble already, on land owned by the parks department that was supposed to be protected as “Forever Wild.” Still, I think we New York birders need to push for it. Another is in the works. .

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2014

On Christmas, Gabriel Willow, a New York City birder and Naturalist Editor for New York City Audubon, posted a picture of a kingbird on the New York Birders Facebook page that had been sent to him by a resident of the West Village in Manhattan, Zack Winestine. Desi was at first as well but quickly got bored.

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AVMA News

APRIL 25, 2023

The Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) treaty was agreed upon at the 5th Intergovernmental Conference in New York, after two decades of international discussion. For the first time, United Nations (UN) members have agreed on a unified treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2016

The American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New York by Corey Finger, birder, blogger, and co-emperor of 10,000 Birds, with photographs by Brian E. If you’ve never birded New York State, send me a brief description of a bird you would like to see in the state and why. It’s here! It’s here!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2014

Greg Lawrence is an ace New York birder who is one of the lucky (?) He is a former President of the New York State Young Birders Club and a guy you want with you if you are trying to identify a rarity. Point blank looks at New York state’s first record of the endangered Kirtland’s Warbler !

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

I drove up to where now only two cars were parked, and saw Steve and Isaac, two New York birding friends, stood in the middle of the median. In New York State! Had something happened? Had the bird moved to a different area? Maybe it was eaten by that Merlin? Or by a cat!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It’s not anywhere near as interesting as one of those amazing pink-winged Wallcreepers showing up in New York. Well maybe it’s just a Brown Creeper on a wall. But that’s still interesting, right? I was out there doing a seawatch hoping to find something rare going past.

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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 Gotham’s many parks have some very suitable habitat for birds from the family Picidae and a birder in any borough of New York will generally find at least a couple of species during an average morning’s birding.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

After all, this was only the second record from New York State and the first wasn’t seen by many as it was a one-day wonder back in 2007. Sadly, despite the best efforts of a who’s who among New York’s birding scene, the bird was not refound. Cassin’s Kingbird in New York State!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Sure, this is normal occurrence across much of Europe and southwest Asia but this particular tale comes from out on the east end of New York’s Long Island, in the town of Medford, where this happened to an unsuspecting non-birder, Celeste Rovner. Thanks to Derek Rogers for getting this story onto the New York State listserv.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2013

The first weekend in November will see birders from all over the Empire State descend on Long Island for the 66th Annual Meeting of the New York State Ornithological Association ( NYSOA ). Birding New York' So sign up ! Right now ! Don’t delay !

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2014

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. He reported it as such but the New York State Avian Records Committee decided that they couldn’t really rule out that it was a Zino’s Petrel. ” Yes!

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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! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How did so many birders get to Point Lookout so quickly? Does it matter?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2011

New York City is well known as a city of immigrants so it makes sense that the only lizards living within the five boroughs are immigrants as well. It may seem odd to go searching for lizards in New York City but the idea of seeing the lizards in the major metropolitan area that is Gotham is too good to pass up for long.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2012

That made me wonder why someone would put so much energy into a species that is regular in New York and not a lifer. As of Friday, 11 May, Anthony had already seen 283 species in New York State, a blistering and likely record-setting pace ( Richard Fried is the current record-holder with 352 species seen in 2011 ).

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Critter News

APRIL 15, 2010

Live octopus are apparently being served LIVE in some New York restaurants. PETA is arguing that this practice violates New York's anti-cruelty laws. Tags: octopus New York animal cruelty restaurants PETA. Good grief! Octopus are highly intelligent creatures.not that ANY creature should suffer like this.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2015

We have had days of northwest winds in New York and the birds have taken full advantage of the favorable conditions to hightail it south. Though sparrows tend to be the main focus of mid-to-late October birding here in New York City there are still plenty of other birds to see like the Eastern Phoebe up above.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

But for some poorly (or not-at-all) understood reason, its spread across North America has shown a very northwesterly orientation, so while birders as far away from the epicenter of the North American introduction in Florida as British Columbia get to see Eurasian Collared-Doves regularly we New Yorkers and other northeasterners are deprived.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2012

That changed when I got on the computer and learned that a birder way up in northern New York, on the Tug Hill Plateau, had reported a heck of a bird coming to her feeder. Nancy Loomis had a Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch , New York’s second* record, and I was not going to miss this bird again. What a bird!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2011

What is there to say about a Mountain Bluebird , a bird of the west, of high elevation grasslands, of the Rocky Mountains, in New York State? What is there to say, that is, other than “Wow” as you head out the door to track it down?

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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. In addition to my family I was also joined on the boat by Isaac Grant, who regular readers of this blog will recall as the birder doing a New York City big year. Whale-watching! More whales!

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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

MAY 12, 2015

New York, I can say with certainty that you have chosen the perfect bird to represent your state. Still, the bill passed in 1970 with only one voice in opposition: Assemblyman Posner of the Bronx, who pointed out that most New York City inhabitants had never seen an Eastern Bluebird, and probably never will.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2016

On Sunday, 5 June, word of Jay McGowan finding a Gargeney at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in western New York State hit the listservs. The long ride back to New York City was uneventful but much more upbeat than it was after the Gray Kingbird dip. It was a nice trio of birds to top off an excellent day of birding.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2014

The Great Vly is wonderful wetland that straddles the border of Ulster and Green Counties in New York State’s Hudson Valley. I was surprised to find a singing House Wren this weekend, as it was my first of the year in New York. The other two were Pine Warbler and Palm Warbler , all expected early migrants.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2011

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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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2016

Gray Kingbirds are rarely seen in New York State and when they are they usually are only seen by the person or people who find them or those in the immediate vicinity. The long drive back to New York was filled by more lousy, incidental eBird checklists, more fast food, and more road kill.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2016

What is the best bird you’ve seen in New York State and why has it stayed in your memory? This is the question I posed to 10,000 Birds readers in celebration of Corey’s first book, the ABA Field Guide to Birds of New York (by Corey Finger, author, and Brian E. So, I treasure every sighting. Or a sequel.)

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2015

But I can’t resist getting out to sea and trips organized by Sea Life Paulagics out of Freeport, New York, don’t happen more than a few times a year so I had to go for it. … Trips New York pelagic pelagic birding winter' ducks at dawn. Sign up and join the fun…I promise not to puke on you.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Paco Sosa, New York City’s oldest dog, is the subject of a new film called Wolf Dog. Paco, who passed away last year, will be doing helping animals, even after his passing, through sharing his true story as an animal celebrity! When the film is finished, it will be used to support animal causes.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Around about the middle of last week there were various and sundry birders from the great state of New York spending a seemingly inordinate amount of time paying attention to the weekend weather forecasts, particularly those that pertained to the marine forecast. … Trips New York pelagic pelagic birding'

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 9, 2018

To get there we would need to get out of New York, through New Jersey into Delaware, and then on through Maryland and Virginia until finally reaching our destination. We broke the drive down into two segments: from New York to Delaware on 31 March and from Delaware to North Carolina on 1 April.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

The first weekend in November will see birders from all over the Empire State descend on Long Island for the 66th Annual Meeting of the New York State Ornithological Association ( NYSOA ). Birding New York' And this is only a taste of what will be happening in a bird-and-birding-full weekend! So sign up ! Right now !

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2011

It was an insane morning of birding and I haven’t even mentioned the Sandwich Tern that would normally have been the highlight of a day’s birding in New York that was just hanging out on the spit at Jones Beach. Yeah, I didn’t think I had but we spotted one of those too.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2013

After our nature walk we had lunch, and while eating lunch more reports of the phoebe, which is a species I had never seen before in New York State, were coming in over email. Say’s Phoebe Sayornis saya in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

The next day many New York birders celebrated Independence Day by mobbing the flats where they all dipped. The fact that I was obsessing over seeing one in New York State shows how absurd some of we listers are. But those birds didn’t count for my New York State list so I had to see this particular tern!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2014

This past Saturday, 8 March, was perhaps the nicest day of 2014 so far in New York. It really has been a great winter to see both species in New York. Ross’s Goose in Southold, New York. Pink-footed Goose at Merritt’s Pond, Riverhead, New York.

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