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 ). Right now ! Birding New York' So sign up ! Don’t delay !

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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

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

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 ). Right now ! Birding New York' And this is only a taste of what will be happening in a bird-and-birding-full weekend!

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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. And the highlight of our herpetological highlights was a Northern Watersnake that Mike stepped right over without noticing it sitting in a freshet. (In

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

When I heard back on 12 November that a Harris’s Sparrow was frequenting a feeder in Loudonville, New York, up where I learned to be a birder, in Albany County, I really wanted to go on the twitch. More like White-cheeked, right? Ain’t nothin’ wrong with appreciating a Pileated Woodpecker. White-throated?

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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

MARCH 27, 2017

After all, exposing a child to nature is important in their development, right? Now, those of you familiar with my tendency to chase birds in New York and knowledgeable of the spate of Great Gray Owls we have had in 2017 might question why it took me to nearly the end of March to make a trip upstate to see one.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2014

That’s right, I, along with my family and some really good friends, was camping. Our campsite was gorgeous North Lake State Park in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, where the air is crisp, the forests are largely intact, and the bears force you to be careful about leaving food out when you go to sleep.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

You want to find a Cave Swallow in New York, huh? But what’s the big deal about seeing Cave Swallows in New York anyway? After all, it’s just another swallow, right? Fortunately for you, it’s easy. Just follow the steps below and you will be in Hirundinidae heaven in no time!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2013

Sadly, lots of good birds were lacking on our 2 March 2013 trip out of Freeport, New York. Don’t get me wrong, those birds are cool birds, but when you are out in a boat for twelve hours specifically searching for alcids and you only get two of the five species you would expect in New York it is kind of disappointing.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2015

I think Pine Warblers have just the right amount of color for an early wood-warbler. It is always nice when you are close enough to see the brown iris of a Pine Warbler. Is this bird intent or what? Who likes feather detail? And if feather detail isn’t your thing how about a portrait? Pine Warbler!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

February feels like a step forward to our next season, but we’ll still be as mired in winter or summer, depending on your hemisphere, at month’s end as we are right now. Corey enjoyed a long weekend in Narrowsburg, New York, along the Delaware River at the New York-Pennsylvania border.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2021

So far, the closest Roseate Spoonbill to me in Albany, New York has been a bird discovered in the last week just over the border in western Massachusetts – but I don’t really care about my list in that commonwealth enough to cross the state line, even if it is for a spoonbill.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

That means that as of right now the yardstick I am holding does not exist because there are no yard sticks that are zero long. That will be much better, right? Besides, suffering brings birds, right? I moped all the way to Coney Island where I drove with my family on an outing to the New York Aquarium.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

At least, that is what anecdotal evidence tells me and nothing is more accurate than anecdotal evidence, right? Yes, that’s right, a White-winged Crossbill and a Red Crossbill together! But, as was predicted , this has been a monster year for winter finches and good old Loxia curvirostra is no exception. …

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2021

Right now, though, we can watch and listen and enjoy. Of all the species he saw he had one that was easily his Best Bird of the Weekend, as it was a new bird for him in New York State. May is a time for birding. Corey enjoyed getting out early and birding both days this weekend, and has the lists to back him up.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2021

Luckily for us, the gull featured on Rebuke, a Helles-style lager from Brown’s Brewing Company of Troy, New York, is depicted in silhouette, which gets us off the hook ID-wise, as far as I’m concerned. Well, good for them. We’ve got a beer to drink.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2021

Fortunately, we have birds to look at, so let’s focus on them right now. Mike absconded from New York the day I returned and despite missing his connecting flight he is safely in Alaska right now. (At So that will be my Best Bird of the Weekend. At least, I hope he is.)

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2021

And what could be better than a new bird-themed brewery opening up less than two miles down the road from me? I first noticed The Warbler Brewery in the Albany, New York suburb of Delmar back in November, a little over a week before their grand opening the day before Thanksgiving.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Just yesterday I learned that the Barn Owl ( Tyto alba ) is the only breeding bird found in New York that has been documented nesting in every month of the year. This bit of trivia was given in an article in my local bird club’s monthly newsletter about the ongoing breeding bird atlas in New York State.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2014

Several times while I was there individual birds flew down to low trees right next to the paved path in order to pull branches off for use in nest construction. I just missed a shot of the bird on the right giving a stick to the bird on the left. How do so many people miss such an obvious amount of activity?

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

The muted colors of Blackburnians, Black-throated Greens, and Blackpolls fit right in with the dull greens and golden highlights of the early fall vegetation. 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. Swallows Everywhere.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2021

I picked out this week’s Parula Pilsner from The Warbler Brewer of Delmar, New York solely because it’s the very end of April, right around the time I generally see my first Northern Parula ( Setophaga americana ) of the year. But with May right around the corner, the floodgates seem about to burst.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2015

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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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2023

So, it is a piquant irony that today, as a result of painstaking laboratory and DNA work, we know, as Moss writes, “that Darwin’s finches can indeed illuminate exactly how new species evolve.” Maybe Moss is right, and birds have changed history. Basic Books, New York, $30 U.S., By Stephen Moss. CAN $38.00.

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Animal Person

APRIL 5, 2011

in today's New York Times, and I couldn't resist posting. A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. And then I read the "OMG!!!!!OED!!!!!LOL!!!!!"

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2019

On one gray, drizzly morning this week, I set out to bird my local patch in Albany, New York, and found 56 species in a few hours of aimless, unhurried traipsing. This was the first Albany County report since 1979 and as I hadn’t even been born when that happened, I raced up there right way. Some days just turn out really well.

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Critter News

MAY 9, 2009

New York Times opinion piece by Nicholas Kristof on animal rights. Tags: activism animal rights political movement. Fascinating and uplifting (for a change!) I totally overlooked it back in April.

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Animal Person

APRIL 21, 2009

I'm excited to be a blogger for Animal Rights Zone because its target market is people who don't usually subscribe to blogs. New York Times. New York City. You can search Animal Person's content (posted on AR Zone) using the search box on the right, under the AR Zone badge. Today is the launch of.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

For Rogers, the finding of the sparrow is not just about the rarity of the find or the decline of breeding Henslow’s Sparrows in New York State, though she is proud of the first and concerned about the second. She frames her story with first a Doonesbury comic strip (remember Dick Davenport, the bird watcher?)

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The book I am writing is the New York edition in the new series of American Birding Association field guides. Officially called Field Guide to the Birds of New York , it is scheduled for publication in October of 2015. Inspiration books field guide New York' And the references I use!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2019

We’re still driving towards the depths of winter here in New York, but I just noticed that our days are getting longer. 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.

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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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