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I opened the year in California and even though I flew out in the evening on New Year’s Day I did see some species out there that I would otherwise not have seen for the year. Winter birding around New York City was just so-so but I did add one species to my Queens list. Aaaarrrgghhhh!

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For example, when Corey gets the thrill of seeing a Black-throated Gray Warbler in Queens County, New York, he can be almost 100% sure that he is seeing a one-time vagrant, and not a previously undiscovered population. No one really believes that Great Black Hawks will be extending their range into Maine any time soon.

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JANUARY 1, 2021

In October of 2017, I took what was my first trip to California as a birder. It was our first real vacation away from New York together and we were really looking forward to it. We’d arrived in San Francisco just in time for the very beginning of the record-breaking 2017 Northern California wildfires.

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million deer killed by cars in 2017-18, plus many smaller mammals), caracaras, famously omnivorous and unfussy eaters, may find the North to their liking. Knopf, New York, $30 (U.S.); $40 (Canada). (The Northern crested caracara, below, was photographed in Skycomish, Washington, 45 miles east of Seattle, in 2014.)

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Illustration for Sophie Webb’s “Why I Love to Draw Birds” © 2017 by Robert A. Illustration for Ioana Seritan’s “More Than Skin Deep: Working in the Prep Lab at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology” © 2017 by Robert A. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, March 2017, 288p., Braunfield. All rights reserved.

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JULY 27, 2017

A very public individual who shall remain nameless recently targeted my part of the world in a typical rant , disparaging “…an area that just isn’t working like upper New York state, where people are getting very badly hurt (economically).” Is that supposed to be how upper New York isn’t working?

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I had an amazing birding year in 2017 with tons of travel , lots of amazing birds , and some truly memorable experiences. But 2018 is a whole new year and calls for all new goals. I have similar goals to last year’s but with some new twists. Can I see sixty percent of them in one calendar year?

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The methodology section is detailed, but the highlights are that the survey was conducted online, and more than 33,000 birders completed at least part of the survey, which was conducted in 2016-2017, long before the COVID-19 pandemic. (I To a layperson such as myself, the methodology appears fairly rigorous.

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MARCH 23, 2020

314 – Sooty Shearwater , 13 May 2017: Yes! A bird I predicted and it ended my longest slump ever of not adding a new bird in Queens, over a year! Seawatching paid off and I have to remember that if I want to keep adding new seabirds. (1 Greater White-fronted Goose. 1 out of 2!).

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Corey spent Saturday journeying back to New York from the Bahamas and most of Sunday recovering. With winter on the wane, my chance to visit with our local Short-eared Owls seemed to be slipping away, so I rectified that with a quick sundown sojourn. Fortunately, before he left he saw some great birds on Friday.

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MARCH 19, 2017

Of course, snow and cold still dominate upstate New York, but beautiful, belligerent Blue Jays don’t much care; some have lingered throughout the dark months, but fresh reinforcements have arrived to stake out territory. Or if you’re on the meridional portion of the globe, summer ebbs for a more clement season.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

School is not yet in session here in New York, which means we all have one more weekend to whoop it up. Summer, such as it was, is almost over. Depending on who you are, living life to the hilt may or may not include birding.

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JULY 14, 2017

July has settled like a hot, muggy blanket over my part of New York, offering little more than streaky, young American Robins for entertainment.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

The birds are instantly recognizable to anyone who’s birded New York City: Mourning Dove, Rock Pigeon, Cedar Waxwing, Brown-headed Cowbird, American Robin, House Sparrow, European Starling. Charlesbridge, 2017; Boardbook edition, 18 pages, 7 x 0.5 It’s a very specific illustration. Author Mya Thompson has a Ph.D.

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JUNE 22, 2017

I’m traveling through Central New York this weekend but doubt the opportunity to spy anything different from what I can spot in my yard. As the season changes, birding changes. This time of year might not offer the most dynamic avian action, but you’ll find plenty of reason to wander out. How about you?

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Corey did not see a ton of great birds this weekend but he did get to share some of them with beginning birders, as he led walks at the Queens Botanical Garden and The Cemetery of the Evergreens for New York City Audubon.

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JUNE 6, 2017

Of course, this only works when the target birds vocalize, which Scaup don’t tend to do in winter in New York City. On a recent trip to see a Henslow’s Sparrow at the Shawangunk Grasslands NWR, New York State, I prepared by reviewing species accounts in my traditional field guides. by Nathan Pieplow.

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So consider stacking one more resolution onto the 2017 pile and share your best bird every weekend either on our blog or our Facebook page or even your own site or social media. For the first week of the year Corey has enjoyed catching up to some of New York’s visiting rare geese and making their acquaintance in 2017.

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If the photo looks familiar to you, it’s probably because it was used to illustrate a New York Times article on Pin-tailed Whydah parasitism in 2017, if you haven’t seen it, click on one of the links in this paragraph. This is a beautifully designed book. The Pieplow titles will help you identify a bird sound.

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JULY 8, 2017

It’s 2017 and we have reached the halfway point. If you are doing any sort of year list, you know what I’m talking about and also know that now is the time to take a moment, count up the species, and go over strategies to reach those birding goals for 2017.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 12, 2010

In " Move to Limit 'Factor Farms' Gains Momentum " in today's New York Times , we learn that farmers in Ohio have agreed to phase out gestation crates within 15 years and veal crates by 2017. I won't get into whether I find that to be a victory.

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JANUARY 2, 2018

New York City apartments don’t allow feeders to be hung from fire escapes (though I know certain birders that skirt that rule), and it wasn’t until I had already been birding for four-and-a-half years that I obtained a small yard in central New Jersey in which I could place a feeder or two or three. I came late to bird feeding.

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MAY 8, 2017

Better get moving… we expect you in New York in a couple of months. Tropical Kingbird. Abundant and conspicuous. Eastern Kingbird. Seen in groups of 1-4 at Radisson Summit, Pipeline Road, and Summit Ponds. Golden-fronted Greenlet. A group in the trees at Summit Ponds. Red-eyed Vireo . Singletons seen at several locations.

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JUNE 1, 2018

My own birding experience in upstate New York this week was much more mundane, with dwindling numbers of Blackpoll Warblers signaling the end of spring migration and prompting my return to a normal sleep schedule. of Ashville in June two years ago to take aboard a pelagic trip of my own, sailing out of Brooklyn, New York.

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It’s interesting to see how it’s answered, sometimes with terms like reverse migration and magnetic field, sometimes with a monolog about climate change, sometimes with the comment “It’s a bird.

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JULY 6, 2018

One of my early memories of birds is the abundance of Ospreys I saw after moving from Syracuse, New York downstate to eastern Long Island at the age of eight. I know that Ospreys nest in upstate central New York, but if I saw them there as a child, I don’t recall it (though my father will probably remind me that we did).

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JANUARY 3, 2017

I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. Bring on 2017! The year list total is 709 countable and 2 non-countable birds. ” But, of course, I am.

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MARCH 7, 2017

The Eagle Huntress was conceived and directed by Otto Bell, a British filmmaker currently based in New York City. It was introduced here at the Sundance Festival, noted as both a New York Times and an L.A. Photo by Andrew Yarme, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. Music by Jeff Peters, title song sung by Sia. 87 minutes.

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AUGUST 18, 2018

When I was a kid, I remember asking about the possibility of seeing a Bald Eagle around western New York. My 2017, Costa Rica Cave Swallow, Chomes in November is a good place and time for it. In Costa Rica, the growing local birding community likewise have their lists of most wanted species, both local and global. Bald Eagle.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2018

But Northern Cardinal, Catbird, and White-throated Sparrow do not appear until the 270s, during a visit to Central Park while on business trip to New York City. In contrast, one of my lifers in 2017 was an Emperor Goose in the Bay Area. According to eBird, the chronology of my life list includes White-Headed Woodpecker at No.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. Natural areas include Pelham Bay Park, Van Cortlandt Park, Woodlawn Cemetery, New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo.

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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. The post Z.

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MAY 1, 2017

We don’t have the space to cover everything here, but talk a bit about how you got pulled into Tony Hsieh’s somewhat cultish world after meeting him at a New York speaking engagement. SMM: Tony’s self-imposed deadline for Downtown Project was January 2017. The book is a fun read. Can you explain?

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I was well out of childhood by the time I first saw a depiction of one, rendered in exquisite Meissen porcelain in a pair of eighteenth-century painted figurines at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Quintas das Arcas: Vinho Verde “Bicudo” (2017). Good birding and happy drinking!

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JULY 19, 2021

He noted that this new bird had longer bills and “darker loral and auricular regions” than the mainland Brown-headed Nuthatch, and collected two of them for science. He gave one to his home institution, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and the other to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

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In 2009, I traveled from New York City to the tropical rainforest of Ecuador. The New Neotropical Companion. Princeton University Press, 2017. It was my first trip to the Neotropics, and I had no idea what I was getting into. You may even begin to feel a sense of belonging in this very different world. By John Kricher.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Other papers are locked behind paywalls.) That research ultimately led to an article about the conservation efforts regarding the Laysan Duck in the June 2017 issue of Birding. The scientific literature does not seek creativity or levity in titles — academic journals are not the New York Post.

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