10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2014

Every spring they totally steal the show in the northeast and you really can’t blame birders for abandoning their jobs, their families, and their sanity as they rush to New York City’s abundant and amazing parks to see the show live and in technicolor. … Birds migration New York City wood-warblers'

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AVMA News

MARCH 25, 2024

The new surgical center at the Schwarzman Animal Medical Center, which includes five operating rooms and a recovery room separating dogs and cats, is part of an ongoing $125 million expansion project at the New York City veterinary hospital.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2012

in the wilds of New York City O.K., Richmond County, one of New York City’s five boroughs. You’re probably incredulous that a new species of frog has been discovered in New York City. So, yes, there are wilds in New York City, and a unique frog.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Though sparrows tend to be the main focus of mid-to-late October birding here in New York City there are still plenty of other birds to see like the Eastern Phoebe up above. We birders have been doing our best to get out as much as possible and I’m no exception. Enjoy this photo-heavy post and get out and see some birds!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

This spring has been rather lousy so far. Like, really lousy. Like, really cold, really wet, really windy, and almost completely lacking in days off work. Of course, that is just my perspective and I have been known to think that birds that don’t show up until May are late if they aren’t here by mid-April.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2014

Such was the sad fate of a New York City veterinarian who refused to release a stray cat she treated back to a feral cat freak who planned to release the cat back into a feral cat colony. News cats New York City' She was cyber-bullied, her business was destroyed, and she took her own life.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2012

The New York Times has the story of this most improbable of discoveries.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Perhaps most known throughout New York City for mafia ties and a couple of hate crimes against African-Americans, Howard Beach was devastated by Hurricane Sandy. For most residents of the five boroughs, parrots are an anomalous sight in New York City.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2024

Having been to New York City on many occasions, I had never had the opportunity to visit Central Park, all of my trips over the years were short, busy business trips. On this particular occasion, it would be different, I am now retired and my wife and I would be vacationing in NY, with no work commitments.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Almost every year there are a few birds that stick around at Bryant Park long after they are gone from the rest of the New York City area. But I think I’ll be able to find time to stop at Bryant Park again on Monday morning… Trips Bryant Park Manhattan New York City' Ovenbird in Bryant Park.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2015

Over the last five or six years, Common Ravens have been sighted with increasing frequency in New York City, part of a resurgence throughout the Northeast after more than a century of regional extirpation. They’ve also recently nested in the Bronx and nearby in New Jersey. But let’s back up for a minute.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2012

Manhattan, April 2010 In the busiest and most developed borough of New York City, Manhattan, which is what most tourists think of when they think of New York City (if they are thinking at all), the signs of spring are sometimes subtle, but most are, like much of Manhattan, in your face.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2011

Seth Ausubel is one of the best birders in Queens, New York, and Corey is ever-so-thankful that Seth does not use eBird because that way Corey can pretend that he is the top lister in the borough. One of the least known stories of New York birding is the tale of the wild Mitred Parakeets. What, you may ask?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

This morning a plane taking off from LaGuardia Airport in New York City hit a bird , which caused engine failure. This is after two years of geese killings in New York City , ostensibly to thin the flocks and protect civilian aviation. The plane landed safely and no one was hurt.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2011

The New York Times blog, City Room, will be holding a “ Bird Week &# this week. The city’s avian equivalent of convention season is just around the corner: the second week in May marks the peak of spring bird migration in New York City, with the maximum numbers of species and individual birds passing through town.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The crisp, cool air in the early morning signifies the end of another hot and humid New York City summer, the end of air conditioning, and the return of cool breezes through open windows. Should I stay at one of the bigger New York City parks that serve as migrant traps? Should I head for the coast?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

At least that’s where I added this species to my New York list. Corey went for a walk at Jamaica Bay with his family on Saturday evening, after the rain had stopped in New York City and went out again, alone, on Sunday morning before the rain picked back up.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2013

I’m absolutely mad about them — I have been my whole life,” she told a packed ballroom at New York City’s Plaza Hotel last Thursday at a National Audubon Society dinner to honor two leading conservationists. Bette Midler , conservationist and star of screen and stage, has a thing for birds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2020

While birders were out birding the coast of Queens on Friday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay hit New York City, Corey was stuck working. If you spend any time in the NYC Metro area, you know what I mean! He missed Brown Pelicans , a Brown Booby , and dozens of Great Shearwaters.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

It was just nice seeing a species of pigeon or dove other than Rock Pigeon or Mourning Dove in New York City. Here’s hoping that this bird finds a mate and a new colony of Eurasian Collared-Doves starts in New York City! Try to tell me this bird isn’t gorgeous!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2012

Especially if you live in New York City !

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2012

When I heard that a pair of drakes were wintering in the pond at the south end of New York City’s Central Park and were rather confiding, well, how could I resist a visit? Wood Ducks are essentially in a class of their own and seeing a drake in good plumage is usually the highlight of any birding outing.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2012

The Orange County / Rockland County border by the Hudson River, where Bear Mountain State Park, Harriman State Park, and the United States Military Academy all come together has the best variety of woodland breeding birds to be found within an hour of New York City.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2021

We spent the bulk of May in New York City with virtually no rain at all so recent rainstorms have filled up long dry puddles and left them irresistible to a variety of birds. Jochen knows why I thought it was important to share this Yellow-crowned Night-Heron at Big Egg Marsh. With a reflection in this image too!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2014

Next I had to find some co-conspirators to ride with all the way up to Point Peninsula, a twelve-hour round-trip from New York City. Being caught by a New York State Trooper going 82 miles-per-hour in a 65-zone is not terribly fun, but I can at least blame that on the lack of cruise control in my car.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Daisy agreed to the outing because it was sunny and nice and Edgemere, once mosquito season is over, is actually a really nice place for a family outing what with the long view of the New York City skyline and the refreshing air blowing off the bay. Trips Edgemere New York City phoebes Queens rarities Say''s Phoebe'

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10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2011

It might not be a good time to be a bird near one of New York City’s two busy airports. This announcement follows on the heels of the announcement a couple of weeks ago that the New York City Department of Sanitation is going to spend $175,000 a year to hire a biologist to track “wildlife hazards.&#

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Any species of shrike is an outstanding bird in New York City. It’s about time, after almost four years of living in New York City, that I finally saw a shrike within the city limits. A Northern Shrike in Brooklyn is no exception. What a great bird and what a great show! … a.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2011

That is what we did on a recent visit to the New York Botanic Gardens in the Bronx, a place where the exponential forces of natural world beauty often threaten to overwhelm the senses. Flowers, trees, and landscape all combine to force the forgetting that New York City is all around.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2013

Another new Queens bird for Corey!) Isaac Grant, who is doing a New York City big year and was on the boat as well, was just as relieved to get the bird within New York City’s boundaries.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

In the late nineteenth century, Eugene Schieffelin, a wealthy New York drug manufacturer, resolved to introduce to North America every species of bird mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare. Schieffelin was long a leading figure in the American Acclimatization Society, a bizarre group of meddlers based in New York City.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2014

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the many species of wood-warblers he saw this weekend, which was amazing for neotropical migration in New York City.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Donna Lynn Schulman was one of the kind Queens birders who helped Corey find his way around his adopted borough when he moved to New York City. Want to learn more about Donna? Read on dear reader, read on. A librarian by trade, she is the ideal person to have the Book Review Beat on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2013

But, when you receive such a call, and your supervisor agrees that you can have the rest of the day off from work as personal time, you end up showing a Snowy Owl for a very nice reporter and on then you end up on the news for NBC’s New York City affiliate.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

This was the downfall of an extremely competent New York City birder who recently saw a large wading bird fly by at a distance at Jamaica Bay with its neck extended. Except sometimes they don’t.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2015

The first day of spring on Friday brought a snowstorm to New York City, hopefully winter’s last gasp, but the snow drove the redpoll to the feeders, the first of the year to show up at Forest Park this year. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Common Redpoll at the feeders in Forest Park on Saturday morning.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Corey thoroughly enjoyed birding around Queens on both Saturday and Sunday mornings, hitting some of his favorite hotspots and leading a New York City Audubon Society trip at the Queens Botanical Garden.

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