10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2019

Well, I made a list: Timber Point Country Club is in Suffolk County, New York, about forty-five minutes from my house in Queens provided traffic isn’t too bad. I had never seen a Common Greenshank in New York. … The post New York State’s First Common Greenshank appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Everyone is looking back on their best birds of 2019, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a book that looks back a little further: Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City , by P. Natural areas include Pelham Bay Park, Van Cortlandt Park, Woodlawn Cemetery, New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo.

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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

APRIL 6, 2015

Sometimes you get incredibly lucky and get a wood-warbler that feeds at your feet. Today was one of those days. A couple of Pine Warblers were being incredibly cooperative at Forest Park, the sun was shining, and I had my digiscoping rig with me. Numerous times the birds came so close that I could not focus.

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AVMA News

JUNE 5, 2023

Dignitaries gathered this May in Manhattan, Kansas, for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NABF), a cutting-edge animal disease research facility replacing the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York.

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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

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

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Snowy Owl in Queens, New York, 1 December 2013. Here in New York State Snowy Owls have been reported in more than ten counties, with most of those counties having birds being seen in multiple locations. Snowy Owl in Queens, New York, 1 December 2013. Why the irruption of owls from the north?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The following has been released by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. CONTACT: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. 3) You can write or call Governor Cuomo at: New York State Governor’s Correspondence Unit. … News Floyd Bennett Field Snowy Owl'

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The book I am writing is the New York edition in the new series of American Birding Association field guides. Officially called Field Guide to the Birds of New York , it is scheduled for publication in October of 2015. Inspiration books field guide New York' And the references I use!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2014

All we do is complain about the lack of migrating birds so far and in New York City if southeast winds are blowing we are nearly despondent because southeast winds mean that the birds are moving north but the easterly component of the winds keep usually keep the bulk of birds to our west. … Birds migration wood-warblers'

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10,000 Birds

JULY 31, 2020

And there’s a good chance that, while they’re at it, they’ll trot out that dubious bit of trivia about the starling being brought to America as a part of some scheme to introduce all the birds mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare to New York City’s Central Park.

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AVMA News

APRIL 25, 2023

The Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) treaty was agreed upon at the 5th Intergovernmental Conference in New York, after two decades of international discussion. For the first time, United Nations (UN) members have agreed on a unified treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas.

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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. Monk Parakeets at their very large nest in Howard Beach.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2020

Somehow, despite seeing both species of cuckoo that show up in New York, two dozen species of wood-warbler, and host of other birds, he managed to narrow it down. Mourning Warblers are never a guaranteed bird in Queens and seeing one at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was a real treat.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

On October 29 th 2012, “superstorm” Sandy devastated the east coast of the USA, affecting states from Florida to Maine, with severe damage in New Jersey and New York. We know that Corey and his family came through the ordeal safely, but what of the warblers?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2021

So far, the closest Roseate Spoonbill to me in Albany, New York has been a bird discovered in the last week just over the border in western Massachusetts – but I don’t really care about my list in that commonwealth enough to cross the state line, even if it is for a spoonbill.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2021

Corey spent a long weekend in his hometown in upstate New York, celebrating Christmas in July (to make up for missing Christmas in December due to the pandemic). But none of them were as good as his first Roseate Spoonbill in New York State, which he managed to twitch, family in tow, on his way back to Queens on Sunday evening.

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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

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' This year there are at least three.

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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. Though ubiquitous in New York in spring through fall, Laughing Gulls are still fun to see. With a reflection in this image too! And so pretty!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2021

But enough about the New York Giants’ free agency activity. No matter how obsessed with birding you may be, you’ll have those weekends where other concerns dominate your thoughts. this is just my way of explaining why I plain forgot to post BBOTW at the usual time!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Corey enjoyed a long weekend in Narrowsburg, New York, along the Delaware River at the New York-Pennsylvania border. The silver lining to these frigid winters is that birds are very active around my house, so I can enjoy cool cold-weather birds like Red-breasted Nuthatch from a warm perch.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

A bill has been introduced by two senators that would outlaw this type of contest in New York, and I started to wonder if people who really are anti-hunting could jeopardize its potential success. Since no one was vilified by gun club defenders more than Friends of Animals , I called its New York director, Edita Birnkrant.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

One of the rites of passage I underwent as a birder following my move from New York City to upstate New York was my first winter excursion to the rolling, snow-covered grasslands north of Albany to look for Short-eared Owls ( Asio flammeus ).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2020

But I figured I’d atone for my current dereliction by briefly highlighting a new bird-themed beer made by Collective Arts Brewing of Hamilton, Ontario to support the hospitality industry during the worldwide public health and economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Just yesterday I learned that the Barn Owl ( Tyto alba ) is the only breeding bird found in New York that has been documented nesting in every month of the year. This bit of trivia was given in an article in my local bird club’s monthly newsletter about the ongoing breeding bird atlas in New York State.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

Out of over 30 respondents, almost everyone wanted money for better facilities, paid staff, on-call veterinarians, emergency vehicles, food, and protected land – from Terry and Lindsay in California to Cindy in Michigan, from Sally in Kentucky to Mickie in South Dakota, and Lisa and Lia in New York. wrote Laura, on Long Island.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2021

What I have is a typical Upstate New York winter, so this weekend was about adding more typical Upstate New York winter birds. Corey made a second attempt this weekend at seeing New York State’s first Ferruginous Hawk , which has been seen regularly in the Black Dirt region of Orange County.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2021

Even though it’s late April, it was below freezing here in Albany, New York today as I stood in my backyard drinking my morning coffee. And while it warmed up slightly later, we also saw several waves of lake-effect snow throughout the day.

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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

MARCH 12, 2021

And what could be better than a new bird-themed brewery opening up less than two miles down the road from me? I first noticed The Warbler Brewery in the Albany, New York suburb of Delmar back in November, a little over a week before their grand opening the day before Thanksgiving.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 10, 2021

Of all the species he saw he had one that was easily his Best Bird of the Weekend, as it was a new bird for him in New York State. Corey enjoyed getting out early and birding both days this weekend, and has the lists to back him up. That’s because very early on Saturday morning he chased a Wood Stork in Suffolk County.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2020

Corey and I will be enjoying the early summer splendor of upstate New York this weekend, albeit at different latitudes. This weekend offers your last taste for a while, so enjoy! 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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10,000 Birds

JULY 30, 2021

Luckily for us, the gull featured on Rebuke, a Helles-style lager from Brown’s Brewing Company of Troy, New York, is depicted in silhouette, which gets us off the hook ID-wise, as far as I’m concerned.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2021

All the best birds in my corner of New York over the last few months have been shorebirds, which explains why I dragged myself once again to Rochester’s fabled East Spit to bag a rare local Baird’s Sandpiper. Late summer in many parts of the U.S.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2015

Or was as of yesterday, according to the New York birding list serv. The vast majority of eBird records of vagrant kingbirds in New York are, unsurprisingly, fall birds. Historically, you don’t see vagrant kingbirds in New York in January. Somehow, the Couch’s Kingbird is still there.

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