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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MARCH 22, 2013

What is the number one cause of wildlife rehablilitator burnout? Dimmy, whose name has been changed to protect the guilty, was driving down the Saw Mill Parkway, north of New York City, when she hit a large bird. He called Lisa Acton, of Animal Kingdom USA Wildlife Rescue , who took over. The public.

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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 21, 2014

The 18th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival is less than a month away and while we don’t have snow down yet here in New York City I am pretty sick of cold weather and could use some warmth and Florida sunshine! John’s National Wildlife Refuge” trip.

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JULY 13, 2014

I’ve only been in Virginia Beach for a few days and I’ve already knocked down most of my targets, including Blue Grosbeak and Yellow-breasted Chat at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge. 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.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

In New York City we get them as migratory overshoots though they do stick around and attempt to find a mate on occasion (and there has been documented breeding of the species in the state). 10,000 Birds is a Scrub Jay-level sponsor of the 15th Annual Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. …

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2011

” -Our Ritual Greeting It was after about fifteen minutes on the dike at Higbee Beach Wildlife Management Area with a pleasant couple from Maryland that I realized that we had managed to have quite a conversation that touched on a variety of topics but managed to not introduce ourselves. “Seen anything good?”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2014

No one heard any complaints from me about this, as I was out at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge with the rising sun. And New York City was at the beginning of its hottest day of the year. On Wednesday morning, 18 June, I had some time for birding because my job is such that sometimes I have to work a later shift.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2017

Newburgh is a little over an hour north of New York City so I figured I could get a visit in to a few great locations for breeding birds that I hadn’t yet seen this year. This past Saturday, 10 June, I had to be at a meeting near Newburgh at 11 AM.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

All of the following shots have been taken over the last couple of weeks on Long Island and in New York City. I am fortunate to live by a coastline that tends to concentrate migratory birds and in an urban area packed with birders who report the birds that they find, a happy coupling of traits that leads to me seeing many birds.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

You are also probably aware that Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, one of the best urban birding sites in the world, is on my regular list of spots that I like to stop by and visit. I have seen some absolutely amazing birds at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. I can’t abide the thought of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge without a West Pond.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2014

At seven in the morning I had just refound the Eurasian Wigeon at the north end of the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and turned around for the long slog down the east side of the pond when my phone buzzed with an email. … Trips Brooklyn New York City Northern Wheatear Plum Beach Twitching'

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2012

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. Or, at the very least, I pay attention so that I can find them again in a week or two.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2018

Late Saturday afternoon a Tundra Swan was reported from the south end of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. A regional rarity around New York City, Tundra Swans are only regular at Hook Pond in Suffolk County, way out on the eastern end of Long Island.

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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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MAY 22, 2017

And it is even less frequent in New York City where we only have one species of hummingbird, the Ruby-throated Hummingbird , and they don’t nest very often. It is not every day that you get the chance to see a hummingbird’s nest.

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DECEMBER 19, 2016

I opened the year in California and even though I flew out in the evening on New Year’s Day I did see some species out there that I would otherwise not have seen for the year. Winter birding around New York City was just so-so but I did add one species to my Queens list.

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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. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Why so serious, Corey? Mwahahahahaaaaar! The proposal from U.S.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2019

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Lead to Calls for a Lights Out Program By Corey • March 16, 2011 • No comments yet Tweet Share City Wildife , an organization in Washington D.C. that is dedicated to conserving wildlife in the U.S. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. capital, has released a report on the deadliest buildings in Washington D.C.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

All of the shots in this post were taken on 12-13 March 2011 at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, New York. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. There is something for everyone at 10,000 Clicks !

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MAY 13, 2013

I started at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge pre-dawn to pick up American Woodcock and then headed to the coast to see if there was any flight happening. Still, any day in New York City with 124 species is a day well worth experiencing! ” They were all over the North Gardens at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.

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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

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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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Corey was pleased to enjoy another lovely autumn weekend in New York City. But his Best Bird of the Weekend was a dabbling duck he found on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, his first Eurasian Wigeon of the year! How about you?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2015

When a Sora was found in the Loch in New York City’s Central Park almost a week ago birders were pretty happy. After all, a twitchable Sora in Manhattan is an oddity with the only previous really twitchable bird being the one that showed up in Bryant Park two years ago.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2014

On Saturday I awakened at 3:30 AM, tiptoed out of the house as quietly as I could, and headed north and west to Sullivan County, the first of three counties I planned to visit in a series of surgical birding strikes to see (or hear) the birds I had thus far missed this year as they migrated through New York City.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

Weidensaul worked on the first research project in Argentina 24 years ago, and his memories of that time in the pampas are both a baseline for what has happened since, a mini-story in itself, and a tribute to Pete Bloom and Brian Woodbridge, the wildlife biologists who originated the study of Swainson’s Hawks in Butte Valley.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Each chapter of Clavreul’s book covers his revisitation of one of these extended Audubon trips, with a final chapter covering New York City, where Audubon first set foot on American soil, in 1803. (His Birds, mammals and other wildlife, humans and landscapes are all rendered magnificently.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2018

Speaking of OSFL, Corey had quite a haul of species to choose from this weekend after leading two walks for New York City Audubon and doing a ton of birding on his own on Sunday. Now that is a bird that is worthy of Best Bird of the Weekend! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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OCTOBER 1, 2011

And if you are visiting New York City and would like someone to show you around the birding hotspots feel free to drop me an email. Don’t be too surprised if I contact you some day and take you up on some birding in the New York City area. They all helped make my Big Year a successful one.

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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! Ross’s Goose – I recently blogged about this bird sighting , a bird that was well-earned at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge as it was camouflaged by well over a thousand Snow Geese.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

The New York City area’s Christmas Bird Count density is absurd. Eventually, when the circle was adopted, it was discovered that some circles overlapped. This should not be because, after all, you don’t want people counting the same birds. The Queens count circle is the one in the middle.

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JUNE 13, 2016

On Sunday, 5 June, word of Jay McGowan finding a Gargeney at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in western New York State hit the listservs. The long ride back to New York City was uneventful but much more upbeat than it was after the Gray Kingbird dip.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2019

Quite aside of aesthetic concerns, this new infrastructure could be dangerous as well – even deadly. In North America, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service estimates that up to 57 million birds perish every year in collisions with electrical utility lines.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2016

’ My father, who never labeled himself as a birdwatcher, was not only very observant of wildlife but also very good at identification. There’s a certain romance to seeing a range restricted species like that in a gorgeous place like the Adirondacks or the Catskills.

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