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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

The big Snowy Owl irruption this year has finally reached New York City with the sighting of a single bird on Hoffman Island. When will one show up in Queens already?

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MAY 18, 2015

Unfortunately, this has been a very dry spring in New York City so, as you can see in the photos above, intrepid Queens birders have made makeshift bird baths to take the place of what is normally a vernal pool. That’s just nuts!

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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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MARCH 14, 2012

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

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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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SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

And, for those of you who live in or near New York City or are visiting here this coming weekend, we are hosting what is undoubtedly going to be the largest mass action about climate change in history. Don’t be afraid of joining a large march in New York City, even if you have never been involved in activism before.

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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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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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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

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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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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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

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

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

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

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

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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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Of those he did see, he most enjoyed the flyover Pileated Woodpecker in his hometown, a treat for a resident of New York City, and Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. Corey enjoyed his weekend at his parents’ house in the Hudson Valley though he didn’t see too many birds. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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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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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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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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OCTOBER 4, 2019

This is the third fall migration for which Kings County Brewers Collective has brewed Safe Flight IPA to benefit New York City Audubon’s Project Safe Flight.

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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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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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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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OCTOBER 15, 2011

No, I haven’t sold my soul to Rupert Murdoch but I was quoted a couple of times in a New York Post article about birding in New York City. Today, the New York Post , tomorrow, the world!

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Corey enjoyed a foul-weather seawatch on Saturday morning and birded a couple of locations Sunday morning before leading a walk for New York City Audubon in Forest Park. Luckily, while White-winged Scoter may be common around here in winter, it’s never boring.

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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

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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APRIL 24, 2012

Especially if you live in New York City !

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2011

In other words, it is once again summer in New York City. Painfully hot. Fried-egg-on-a-sidewalk hot. Hate-the-sun hot. Disgustingly hot. Wander-the-apartment-in-just-underwear hot. Like last year I am doing my best to stay cool and thought I would try to help all of you wonderful readers do the same.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2020

The stifling temperatures of a New York City heat wave did what even the height of the COVID epidemic failed to do: they prevented Corey from doing a single dedicated birding outing this weekend.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2012

Oh, right, the South Nassau Christmas Bird Count was today and a huge number of New York City and Long Island birders take part in that count every year – and none of them were on their own territory anymore! How did so many birders get to Point Lookout so quickly? But enough about the birders, where was the bird?

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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

MAY 26, 2014

Now that I live in New York City I rarely manage to make it that far north and when I do it tends to be winter, which is kind of odd. Montreal, while far to the north of New York City, is in Canada, which is certainly not the Adirondacks. After all, it was only a couple of hours north of my house.

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