10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2012

Though birds sing because it is a biological imperative I find it hard to believe that they don’t get some basic enjoyment out of the experience as well. For example, the Brown Thrasher at right is one of several singing from the bushes and trees around the West Pond at Jamica Bay Wildlife Refuge. I know I do!

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10,000 Birds

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.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

I haven’t even been to all of the best national wildlife refuges for birding. 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. Thus, my “good birds” are likely the opposite of an eastern birder.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

It is my belief that the birds were migrating, though one New York birder suggested that they might have been flying out for some crepuscular feeding. Either way, it was a heck of a sight and another example of why Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is the best place in New York City to see amazing wildlife spectacles.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2016

Brian Laben had a wonderful experience seeing this rarity in upstate New York (or, is that mid-state? ’ My father, who never labeled himself as a birdwatcher, was not only very observant of wildlife but also very good at identification. Or a sequel.)

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

It has now returned to seek revenge and wreak havoc in Ontario county before moving on to New York City. But after repeated good experiences with birders as individuals, Mr Jordan has consented to allow the bird to be made public before it leaves. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. Why so serious, Corey?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Many years of experience have been lost. The New York City area’s Christmas Bird Count density is absurd. Compiling a Christmas Bird Count is much more complex, especially for a count that is in a bit of flux as the Queens count is. The Queens count circle is the one in the middle.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2021

July in New York City is generally an unpleasant experience. This is why New Yorkers in summer have fled the city for the mountains upstate, the beaches on Long Island, or, really, anywhere, for as long as New York has been a metropolis. What’s going on?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. Jennifer Ackerman points out in the introduction to What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds , that we don’t know much, but that very soon we may know a lot more. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Our experience on the ground confirms your reporting that this trade is increasingly tied to organized crime. Money for greater local enforcement is now the most pressing need to combat poachers and the armed wildlife trade syndicates to which they are increasingly linked. ELIZABETH L. BENNETT Jeju, South Korea, Sept.

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