10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2019

So we made our way to the grounds of the Uganda Wildlife Education Center , a former zoo that now rehabilitates injured animals. On the shore of Lake Victoria, the grounds were surprisingly birdy, and we quickly built up a nice checklist. Rare birds are weird, and a bird as rare as a first country record is a special experience.

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Uganda Zoos New York Experience 230

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2014

Andrew Revkin recently described in his Dot Earth blog how he watched, amazed, as a white pigeon raced the traffic on the Palisades Parkway, heading north from New York City. A few days ago my friend Melissa Gilmer called me from the Bear Mountain Zoo in New York’s Hudson Highlands. “We “He’s gone crackerdog.”.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2013

Grand Central Parkway, Triboro Bridge, Harlem River Drive, George Washington Bridge, Route 4, Route 17, New York State Thruway, Exit 20, Route 212, Route 32, Old King’s Highway, West Camp Road. I was home by 9:30 AM and was back out the door within a half-an-hour to take Desi to the zoo. ABA bird number 502 !

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2011

It was a gusty weekend in New York City and environs, with fall finally feeling like fall is supposed to feel. Sparrows have almost completely taken over for wood-warblers and temperatures are finally waning as is only proper. How was your weekend?

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Costa Rica Atlanta New York City 2011 174

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

If accepted by the New York State Avian Records Committee, it will be a first state record. Dipping on a bird like a Virginia’s Warbler , which normally is no closer to New York than, say, Colorado, hurt. It would have been a lifer, a new Queens bird, and it is, of course, a wood-warbler.

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Virginia New York Colorado Zoos 127

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

But it wasn’t all that diabolical when you consider that it was the Queens Zoo that served as the setting and I also left this clue: “a knowledge of what birds can be seen in my fine borough will be of great assistance to you.&# Those who are really familiar with Queens should know what birds are in the zoo named for our borough.

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Bald Eagle Zoos 2011 Parrots 113

Animal Person

MARCH 27, 2009

In "Council Bozos Want to Ban Circus Animals in City" Ellis Henican ridicules the New York City Council for introducing a bill to ban the "display of wild or exotic animals for public entertainment or amusement." But most zoos and circuses today, including ours, are delicately sensitive to animal well-being.

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Circus Animals New York City Elephants Zoos 100

Animal Person

APRIL 21, 2009

New York Times. New York City. More >> Animals. More >> Category. More >> Players. More >> Places. Kazakhstan. More >> Year. The number next to each changes with the popularity of the terms (for each blog).

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ Tiger on the Loose: Can It Happen Here? ” (news article, Dec. 27): It’s little wonder that Tatiana, the tiger that escaped from the San Francisco Zoo, longed for her freedom.

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New York Times New York San Francisco Ethical Treatment 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2011

This past weekend had the family and me visiting my folks for Easter in my hometown of Saugerties, New York, “Where,&# as the slogan says, “The Catskills Meet the Hudson.&# Because I am an absurdly early riser of late I had some time before breakfast on Sunday to get out for some birding.

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Canada Birds Zoos Louisiana 161

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2012

We can find other ways to get him up close to birds, like visiting a local farm, getting him to responsible zoos, or just taking him out to places where other people feed birds. In my neighborhood and across New York City, there are quite a few places with signs like the one above.

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Birds New York City Fast Food Geese 241

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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New York City New York Kentucky Abandon 172

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

4 Responses to “Domestic or Ganky Geese&# John Mar 6th, 2011 at 9:12 pm I see goose hybrids regularly since the local, nonmigratory Canada Geese happily interbreed with the domestic geese at a county park’s zoo. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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Geese 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2012

in the wilds of New York City O.K., Richmond County, one of New York City’s five boroughs. You’re probably incredulous that a new species of frog has been discovered in New York City. It is an extremely rare occasion when any new vertebrate species is discovered in a major population center.

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New York City New York Leopards Investigation 153

Critter News

AUGUST 9, 2010

This years’ judges for the competition were: Sophie Uliano, author of New York Times bestseller Gorgeously Green; Summer Rayne Oaks, model, spokesperson, and expert for Discovery Network's Planet Green; Brita Belli, editor of E/The Environmental Magazine; and Josh Dorfman, author and host of The Lazy Environmentalist on Sundance Channel's The Green.

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Fur Animal Welfare Ethics Primates 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Mourning dove But then where does the swallow come in??? OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 Bald Eagle Sparrows Parrots 183

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

There are owls in New York City. They are the city’s latest, maybe only, celebrity media sensation, and photographs show crowds of New Yorkers craning their necks up as far as their masks allow, holding phones at arm’s length, using opera glasses and huge binoculars that remind me of the ones my dad used at the racetrack.

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New York City Birds Owls Fox 186

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

What the Owl Knows is organized into nine chapters: introduction, adaptation (including vision and flight), research and researchers, vocalization, courtship and breeding, roosting and migration, cognition, and two chapters on owls and humans–captive owls (not zoos, educational owls) and owls in our cultural history.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 210

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2019

The Tufted Duck was first discovered by an American birder, Mr Michael Dougherty, on January 3rd and it is still being discussed on the news this week. Apparently this Tufted Duck is being called a “ Goth Duck ” in New York already! There’s no denying really that “our duck is better than your duck”!

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Australia Ducks Europe Zoos 114

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 5, 2014

I live in New York; I’ve also lived in Maine and Switzerland. The diehards will be there,” he said reassuringly and squired me to the Oxley Nature Center , a beautiful educational building set on 804 acres of flood-plain forest, prairie, and wetlands one mile north of the Tulsa Zoo. Snowstorm? ”

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Tulsa Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma Wildlife 183

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2019

While growing up in western New York during the 70s and 80s, sure, we could have found some information, some illustrations of toucans at the local public library. Toucans were something else entirely and we couldn’t even see them at the local zoo.

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Costa Rica Panama Eating Eggs South America 174

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

.’s Birds of New Guinea notes that the species is often seen moving in “high-flying flocks,” and Coates and Bishop’s Bird of Wallacea declares, “this species has suffered greatly from human predation and is now generally scarce to very rare.” The Ones Who Didn’t Make It.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 275

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

While it’s no longer possible to see this regal macaw soar gracefully through the Brazilian skies, to be able to worship them—even from afar at one of the conservatories or zoos—would be a dream, at last, come true. I worked with a pair of motmots at a US zoo and fell in love with their vibrant colors and unique tails. Wicked, right?

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 204

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

We have photographs and newspaper obituaries of Martha, the last living Passenger Pigeon, who died after a lifetime in captivity, mostly in the Cincinnati Zoo. Avery’s trip through Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York holds more promise. We have a lot of source material.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2017

Park in the lot across from Summit Gardens and Zoo, then walk across the railroad tracks. Better get moving… we expect you in New York in a couple of months. The Summit Ponds are home to all manner of kingfisher and long-legged wader, many of which are easier to find here than anywhere else in Panama. Tropical Kingbird.

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Panama 2017 Monkeys Family 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

For some reason, even though there are Mandarin Ducks in zoos throughout New York City, this escapee has become an internationally known tourist attraction, even heading the New York Times list of “Five Times the Internet Was Actually Fun in 2018.” May 12th was the Sandy Hook (N.J.)

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