10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

When I first saw the post on the New York State listserv about the Hooded Crow on Staten Island I wasn’t going to twitch it. It had to be an escaped bird or at least one that didn’t make it to the southernmost borough in New York City under its own power but by riding a boat.* Get to Staten Island, posthaste!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

When you are a New York City-based birder that is pretty pleased with the amount of boxes ticked off on your New York State checklist you would normally want a rarity that you have not seen in the state to show up within an hour drive of your home. And I even got to work on time! … a.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to New York State. Fortunately, Tom spotted it flying in and landing in a tree over the house and we all enjoyed scope views of a great bird, a lifer for most of us and Isaac’s 400th bird in New York State! Why is that awesome?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2020

As the peak of spring migration in the northern hemisphere, May is always an exciting but exhausting month for birders in North America. Juice Bomb IPA by Sloop Brewing in Hopewell Junction, New York is a great beer – it just doesn’t have much going on bird-wise. I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t tiring.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2020

Our featured spirit this week is Neversink Spirits Gin, the flagship product of Neversink Spirits , a craft distillery in Port Chester, New York. Being located in a great apple-growing state like New York, Neversink uses 100 percent state-grown fruit to produce their apple-based gin. Good birding and happy drinking!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2020

One of the highlights of autumn for many birders in eastern North America is the annual release of the Winter Finch Forecast. Two Red-breasted Nuthatches in an illustration by Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927) for the Eighth and Ninth Reports of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York, 1902-1903.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Just in North America north of the Rio Grande! And, for those of you who live in or near New York City or are visiting here this coming weekend, we are hosting what is undoubtedly going to be the largest mass action about climate change in history. This is an enormous threat to our birdlife!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The bird I watched the other day was the same species that birders see in the maple and oak woodlands of eastern North America, the same species I commonly saw during so many past migrations, spring and fall. I must have been petty young, was probably around nine.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2017

Seriously, cardinals are both gorgeous and interesting , but their familiarity across most of North America breeds indifference if not contempt. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was an easy one to choose.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2015

Read on if you want to indulge me in reliving my version of it… In 2014 I birded in three countries (United States, Canada, Costa Rica), four states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida), and forty-two counties. (I’m Whiskered Tern is an awesome bird anywhere but it is even more amazing in North America.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2012

Everyone probably knows the story of how the European Starling ( Sturnus vulgaris ) came to the shores of America during the 19th century, but for those who don’t, this is how it goes. 1 ” By 1877 New York pharmacist Eugene Schieffelin, an avid admirer of Shakespeare, was the society’s driving force.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

The Eastern Kingbirds I knew from the fields of upstate New York were smartly dressed birds that perched on fences and chased Red-tailed Hawks. This being an uncommon species in upstate New York, I appreciate having an abundance of Cliff Swallows to look at. Eastern Kingbirds Form Flocks. Swallows Everywhere.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2017

But while monarchs are among the most charismatic and well-studied of lepidopteran migrants, rather less attention is paid to the fact that North America is home to other migrating butterflies. The American snout periodically moves through Texas and Mexico in huge numbers.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

” And then I found out that bird song doesn’t just belong to the males, that there are female birds who sing too, only not so much in North America, and my mind was blown.**. They’re just like us–they talk with their hands (er, wings) and their feet and some are even crafty!” And, that’s it.

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MAY 4, 2012

Queens, New York, May 2009 May is the month of migration in North America. Just take a look at some of the pictures I digiscoped in the first two days of May to get an idea of how great a month May is in the Borough of Queens, New York City.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2020

From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Our featured beer this week is Bramble, a dry-hopped farmhouse ale from the Arrowood Farm Brewery of Accord, New York, made with – as the name suggests – raspberries. The Robin, No. Louis, Missouri (early 20th century).

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

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. 1999, Holt et al. Evans, and D.

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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. Those wacky pharmacists.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2016

The first to publish was New Jersey and since then six more states have come out: Colorado, Florida, California, Pennsylvania, Texas and New York. Word is that Arizona is about to be released and Minnesota, North Carolina and other states are in the pipeline. The New York book is written by me!

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It involves plate tectonics; and the separation of North America from South America and their eventual reconnection; and the end of the Cretaceous Era thanks to a big asteroid, and the movements of animals, including humans, in response to all of those things. Knopf, New York, $30 (U.S.); $40 (Canada).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

I was puzzled why the authors decided to include Buff-breasted Flycatcher, Pine Flycatcher, and Tufted Flycatcher, species that have extremely limited range in North America. I’m curious how the remaining Tyrant Flycatchers of North America will be divvied up–Kingbirds and Kiskadee? Phoebes and Myiarchus ?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2017

Most birders are enamored both of raptors and Pete Dunne, which is why Birds of Prey: Hawks, Eagles, Falcons, and Vultures of North America is a book any birder would love ( Carrie certainly did.) The second and slightly more challenging way to win was to share news of the giveaway on Facebook while using the hashtag #birdsofprey.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

The series, which was four years in the making, follows birds across six continents, from eagles in North America to hummingbirds in South America, cockatoos in Australia, cranes in Asia, and flamingos in Africa. Above, Snow Geese approach the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. And many more!).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2015

The Western Kingbird is one of eight species of tyrant flycatchers that breed in North America. New York, NY: Alfred A. They are specialized with long pointed wings for aerial hawking of insects, which make up the overwhelming majority of their diet. References: 1 Sibley, D.A.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

I’ve seen Yellow Warblers in the low shrubs of Western New York pastures, the river valleys of Missoula, and the trees of abandoned industrial sites in New York City. In North America, that is. They are not shy, not given to skulking in dense underbrush or retreating to the crowns of great trees.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2012

In North America there is really only one duck that could even come close to competing with the Wood Duck for the title of most fair, and the Harlequin Duck is just too much of a trollop to really compete. And, as it turns out, confiding doesn’t quite express how willing to approach people these ducks are.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2022

While growing up in Niagara Falls, New York, I often wondered if the warm and humid weather was similar to the constant short-wearing climes of tropical places. Shorebirds have left their northern tundra pools and boreal fens, August is when they pass through much of North America.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2012

At the end of a half-morning’s birding I stopped at the south end of the Cross Bay Bridge, just north of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens, New York. Brant wintering in New York tend to subsist on a diet of eelgrass and sea lettuce. Want to see that? Check out this post ! ……… a.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2017

Still, they’re neither endangered nor threatened, either in North America as a whole or in New York State. The area around us has seen some development and habitat fragmentation, but there are still fields to be found to our west and north. are developed or otherwise lost.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

“Bird-friendly design” is becoming a common term in architectural and city planning circles and proponents can point to a successful initiative, the retrofitting of New York City’s Javits Center which reduced bird deaths by 90%. ’s Lights Out DC, to name a few.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

It’s a good thing too, because it is the leading gamebird in North America in terms of total harvest and the widespread distribution of hunting effort. References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 Droege, S. North American breeding bird survey annual summary 1989, 3 US Fish & Wildlife Service.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2014

However, the Sunda islands span over a large region, and if the teal’s range is projected onto North America, it covers the area between Los Angeles and the panhandle of Florida. Now, for comparison’s sake, New York City has around 8 million people on 800 square kilometres, or 10,000 / km².

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

Though its native range in the United States was just the southwest, the House Finch is now the most familiar pink finch in North America. I spotted my first Common Redpolls way back in February of 2006, when I had been birding for less than a year and was still living in Albany, New York. House Finch.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

I was concerned and horrified that this happened in my city and astonished when this seemingly local story became national then international news. I knew he was also a former Marvel comic book writer and editor, but did not know that he also, unsurprisingly, had a history of involvement in LGBTQ and Black rights advocacy.

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

So get yourself to the Principality of California (assuming you can get a visa) and check yourself ones of these off your North American (minus all the warm bits with the interesting birds) List! The important thing is that I get to see albatrosses and he doesn’t.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

There is another area of the Queens County CBC where a team will also likely see Monk Parakeets , Myipsitta monachus , but I am seriously determined to count that bird for my area, Coastal Flushing, a section of northeast Queens, New York, that includes Whitestone, home of one of the loudest invasive bird species in the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2020

Good field guides to bird sounds are certainly available, particularly Nathan Pieplow’s for eastern and western North America.) Boston, New York. It’s not a field guide, as such. Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist: Your Guide for Listening. By Donald Kroodsma. Harcourt Mifflin Harcourt. 27, March 10, 2020.

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