10,000 Birds
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. Buckley, Walter Sedwitz, William J. Norse, and John Kieran. “Wait! ” you’re probably saying.
10,000 Birds
JULY 13, 2014
Traveling really rejuvenates the passion when local breeders become banal. It is the first record of this invasive species for New York City and it served as a nice contrast to the hordes of pigeons in the neighborhood. Most people don’t expect birding wisdom from Buffet, but he is, after all, the Chief Parrothead!
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10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2013
While the winds and weather systems have conspired to keep the bulk of migrating birds west of New York City we have seen many of local breeders show up as expected. It’s 6 May and I haven’t seen a Black-throated Green Warbler yet! That is just not right at all.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2014
Yellow-throated Warblers are a rarity in New York State and as I mentioned earlier this year they are usually considered an “overshoot,” that is, a bird that usually breeds further south that occasionally flies past its breeding grounds during migration before realizing what it has done and turning around to go back to where it belongs.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2011
It is even more odd to be birding Central Park in June, when migration has essentially wrapped up and all that is left are breeders and stragglers. It is not every day that one gets to explore Central Park with a friend, birder, and first-time visitor to the Big Apple. … a.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2011
We were walking on the south side of the marsh, hoping to find some of the Common Redpolls that had invaded the New York City area the previous week when something made me look to my left and up and I saw a Short-eared Owl in flight that had evidently just been unintentionally flushed from the opposite side of the marsh by someone out for a stroll.
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.
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