10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2017

Now, those of you familiar with my tendency to chase birds in New York and knowledgeable of the spate of Great Gray Owls we have had in 2017 might question why it took me to nearly the end of March to make a trip upstate to see one. Desi was game and that convinced Daisy. Why did we stop for lunch!?!?!)

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New York Owls Beavers Puerto Rico 110

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

Flatrock Brook is in the the city of Englewood, New Jersey, just across the George Washington Bridge from New York City. After all, there is no hunting and while I watched the turkeys they routed a feral cat that dared come near the flock of twelve which consisted of two tom turkeys and ten hens.

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Turkey New Jersey Feral Cats New York City 205

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2022

As late as 1963, Higgins says, there were various theories that sought to explain the hunting prowess of owls – smell, night vision, the ability to detect body heat. Atria Books, New York, $28 (U.S.); $37 (Canada). February 22, 2022, ISBN 978-1-9821-5655-8 (hardcover); 978-1-9821-5657-2 (ebook).

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Humane New York Owls Hunting 264

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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Ducks 2011 Jamaica Deer 211

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

Returning to New York, however briefly, has been a joyful reunion — not just with old friends, but with my beloved, quirky New York City birds. Shortly after I arrived I got word of the Gray-hooded Gull at Coney Island, and of course I went after it right away.

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New York City Bald Eagle New York Birds 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2014

From flower to flower, a-hunting with the bee. Corey and I will, as is our wont, both be a-hunting with the bee, only in different parts of New York and likely with different bees. – In June. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below.

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2014 Hunting New York Birds 160

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Proposal: Creation of a Federal Wildlife Conservation Stamp A birder, wildlife watcher, photographer and non-hunter version of the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp (aka Federal Duck Stamp). She says, “there’s just a cultural bias against anything related to hunting.”

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Wildlife Hunters Ducks Hunting 239

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2011

When skimmers are hunting even the most jaded birder has to watch them and the vast majority of the time a smile will be on that birder’s face. Enjoy these Black Skimmer shots taken at Cupsogue County Park in Westhampton, New York, on the south shore of Long Island. … a.

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Niger New York Asia Fish 185

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2019

Imagine that… a successful snipe hunt. Corey spent the first half of the weekend finishing up his family trip in southern California and the rest of it getting back to New York and recovering from a red eye. Ivy and I tracked down her first Wilson’s Snipe this weekend.

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2019 New York California Hunting 170

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2013

Though originally from Switzerland he now makes New York City his home where I (Corey) have had the great fortune of meeting him, birding with him, and photographing wildlife with him. Francois Portmann is a professional photographer with an impressive portfolio.

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Switzerland New York City 2000 Seals 224

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2011

At the time I had no idea what had so scared me and it was only in retrospect that I realized that my encounter was with Bonasa umbellus , or what the folks who hunt them typically call “partridge.&#

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Georgia Alaska North America Hunters 235

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Eventually, it headed east out of sight and we continued our birding, only to join in a hunt for the kingbird when other birders arrived who wanted to see it. Western Kingbirds are not spectacularly rare in New York, being far more than annual, but having one in good light for an extended period is a rare treat.

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New York Hunting Birds Species 182

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Just For Fun Avian ID Quiz #9: A New Week, A New Quiz Waxwing Working a String Snipe Hunt in the Bird Blogosphere Black is Back In Praise of Bionic Condors About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens.

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Ducks 2011 Deer Brazil 235

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

Queens, New York, May 2010 At one time there was an airport in northern Queens called Flushing Airport. I was only recently introduced to the airport by a fellow Queens birder who will remain anonymous here mostly because the property is owned by New York City and one technically shouldn’t be there.

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New York City Homelessness New York Baltimore 170

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2012

The behavior could be especially disastrous for waterfowl, which are hunted by people, but less so for passerines, or perching birds, which regularly come into people’s bird feeders. 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 Geese Fast Food 263

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2014

Judging by the number of Cape May Warblers that birders have been seeing around the New York City area over the last couple of years Canada must be in a period of increased Spruce Budworms , which is bad for the trees but good for us birders!

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New York City Tigers New York Canada 184

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2024

It’s not that they don’t still occur in Niagara Falls, New York. It was like so many other places where the young birds were stolen from nests, habitat was destroyed, and adult macaws occasionally hunted. Cardinals win us over with stunning colors, a pretty song, and common presence.

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Costa Rica Birds New York Parrots 246

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.

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Owls New York City Rodents New York 145

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Blame human intervention in the form of breeding programs so that there would be more to hunt. New York City has famously taken to catching and gassing Canada Geese so it is actually getting difficult to find decent-sized flocks of the birds in Brooklyn and Queens. That is really a shame. It’s not my fault!

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Geese Canada New York City Birds 162

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

It was in the great borough of Queens in New York City that I first discovered both beer and birding, two great loves of my life that happily intersect with great regularity here at Birds and Booze. We were fans of the Dominican lager El Presidente (mostly on account of the cool name) and Guinness was always a favorite.

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Poland Detroit New York City Eagles 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

These Blasts From The Past New York City Canada Goose “Kill Zones&# Revealed Help Save Migratory Birds! Say Hello to the South Hill Crossbill Snipe Hunt in the Bird Blogosphere 3 Million Page Views! Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct.

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Deer 2011 New York City New York 140

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2017

We had some great birding in New York City parks this past weekend and I managed to get my Queens wood-warbler count up to nineteen for the year. The black-and-white is abundant in spring migration here in New York though generally, once a birder checks it off for the year, it is ignored.

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New York City New York United States Hunting 124

Critter News

AUGUST 1, 2009

The New York Times reports that the ban will still allow seal products from traditional hunts by the Inuit people, also known as Eskimos, in Canada and Greenland. And Canada is going to appeal the decision at the WTO. victory for now.

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Seals Hunters Canada New York Times 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2013

The bad news is I then celebrated too hard, fell down, and broke my wrist. Since it’s really hard to type in a splint, here is a blast from the past: specifically from the beginning of this long, strange trip, my cross-country journey from New York to Montana: I have to confess, I had forgotten all about the Eurasian Tree Sparrow.

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St. Louis Sparrows Kansas City Kansas 201

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

There is no better place to find grasspipers in New York State than the sod farms on eastern Long Island in autumn. It’s odd, then, that the best place to find them in the eastern United States is at sod farms, perhaps the only positive ecological impact of people wanting monocultured and manicured lawns.

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Argentina Farming South America United States 162

Critter News

JANUARY 31, 2010

In this week's podcast ending January 30, 2010: **A Mercy for Animals video spurs calls for a ban on tail docking in the State of New York; **Animal rights activists try to stop construction of a bullfighting ring in Beijing; **A PETA protestor gets a pie in the face for protesting against the Canadian seal hunt; **And legislation is proposed in China (..)

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Tail Docking Protest Protesting Protesters 100

Animal Ethics

MARCH 20, 2007

Here is a New York Times story about capybara hunting.

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Hunting New York Times New York 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

I live in upstate New York where only one of these two species occurs. In 2007 Jory became the "least consistent birder" to see 300 birds in New York State in one year. Share Your Thoughts « Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of March 2011) Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! But not while flying. Think “white”.

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2011 Deer New York Kentucky 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

These Blasts From The Past American Seabirds Thrown a Lifeline Snipe Hunt in the Bird Blogosphere Breeding Site of Large-billed Reed-Warbler Found Queens Christmas Bird Count IATB #137 Deadline About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist.

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Deer 2011 New York Cats 124

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2011

Queens, the finest borough in New York City, as I may have mentioned before, is where I have now seen a whopping 279 species! It was hunting around the edges of the West Pond of Jamaica Bay back at the beginning of March, a day that I saw both the individual in Queens and one in Brooklyn. Snow Bunting – Yes!

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Jamaica Owls 2010 New York City 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2017

Even when hunting in sub-freezing temperatures on the edge of the Mongolian border or doing her chores around the family ger (yurt) in the isolated Altai Mountains, Aisholpan beams. It’s constructed in three acts: Home, Festival, Hunting. Aisholpan will not be considered a true Eagle Hunter till she successfully hunts.

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Eagles Mongolia Hunters Hunting 114

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 12, 2008

Andrew Revkin writes the Dot Earth blog for the New York Times. You can find his recent post on the current state of whale hunting here. About Dot Earth By 2050 or so, the world population is expected to reach nine billion, essentially adding two Chinas to the number of people alive today.

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Whaling Whales Hunting New York Times 40

Animal Ethics

MAY 11, 2008

People who move out here from the city generally feel the same way.

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New York Times New York New Jersey Deer 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 Zoos Birds Louisiana 170

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Blue-Collar Dogs: New York Police. The New York Police Department’s K-9 squad is one of the nation’s most exclusive police units. In this video: “The Cold Nose of Justice” – When it comes to contraband seizures, the nose of a dog never fails. Premieres Monday, February 21 at 10PM ET/PT on Nat Geo WILD.

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Dogs Haiti Puppies New York 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2013

Our missing it while it sat in that spot seemed impossible so rather than accept the title of blundering dunderheads we decided that we must have searched too early, while the owl was still hunting, before it had returned to its roost for the day.

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Owls Skunks Hunting New York City 213

10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2011

Because Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is (mostly) in Queens, I am a Queens lister, and I had never seen a Ross’s Goose in Queens (though I have, of course, seen several in New York State before ).

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Geese Jamaica Wildlife Turkey 154