10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
Are these, I ask gesturing figuratively around me, all the winter visitors or resident breeders we’ll be observing for the next few months? Until Mute Swans took over Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, gallinules bred there. The rush of migration seems to have ended just about everywhere in the world.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2011
In the case of Acorn Woodpeckers, they are cooperative breeders (as with many other polygynandrous species), which seems to predispose species to polygynandry. Alpine Accentors, on the other hand, are not cooperative breeders and females typically have very little to do with each other.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 12, 2019
Though I never cared much for the season growing up, my initial birding forays to Jamaica Bay in Queens were a welcome antidote to the smelly sidewalks and sweltering apartments that plagued my life in summer in New York City. Piping Plover Pilsner: The Detroit Zoological Society and Griffin Claw Brewing Co.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2012
I first met Anthony Collerton when he was trying to see the Barrow’s Goldeneye at Jamaica Bay back in February. then eventually you’re going to see most of the residents, spring migrants, wintering species and regular breeders. It was something like his fifth attempt at the bird. That’s about 300 species in a typical year.
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2017
But after a long weekend in Niagara Falls and Toronto with my extended family, which featured virtually no birding, I was more than willing to get out at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge on Tuesday morning (the 4th of July) to see what was out and about. Either way, life isn’t easy for a young bird.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 30, 2020
Common Cuckoo is a fascinating bird, an obligate parasitic breeder that employs numerous strategies, including fraud and murder, to survive. , deep-pandemic birds (all local), and still-pandemic birds (a little travel), it is the Rhode Island Common Cuckoo that will define this year for me.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2023
This post is not a twitch, but it is much more fun to read if you first dwell upon the sentiments from the last picture of Corey’s post from East Pond, Jamaica Bay, 2015 It would be a bold birder that calls a Common Ringed Plover , Charadrius hiaticula where Semi-palmated Plover , C. semipalmatus is also an option.
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