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Happy Thanksgiving! Wild turkey, Midtown Manhattan (5/7/2024) 🪶 #birds #birdsnyc
A large heavy-set brown fowl stands upright facing right surrounded by green stems in a planter.
November 28, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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Fascinating three-species interaction: a Cooper’s hawk harassed and chased away by purple martins and an Eastern kingbird, Shawangunk Grasslands NWR (5/25/2024) 🪶#birds
An accipiter with a dark-capped flat head, pale nape, and relatively large head soars through the air. The same hawk dodges a dive-bombing dark swallow while a black and white flycatcher with a white-tipped tail hover above awaiting its opportunity. The same hawk is pursued by a dark swallow screaming bloody murder. The flycatcher pulls up above the hawk after swooping past its head.
June 10, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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Birds of Shawangunk Grasslands NWR: Grasshopper sparrow, Bobolinks, Eastern meadowlark, Willow flycatcher (5/25/2024) 🪶#birds
A buffy sparrow with a bold eye ring perches on a low branch. A black bird with a white rump and yellow nape perches on a vertical branch, looking down at a brown and pale yellow striped bird perched on a lower branch. A stocky white and brown bird with black stripes and bright yellow underside, throat, and lores and sharp bill takes flight from a bush. A songbird with gray-olive back, lighter front, white wing bars, and weak eye ring perches on a large stem. It was heard to call “fitz-beww” repeatedly.
June 10, 2024 at 2:52 AM
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Late migrants at Bryant Park: mourning warbler, Lincoln’s sparrow, Swainson’s thrush. Mourning warblers are uncommon visitors to the New York Public Library, but this was one of a group of 4-5 stopping by. (6/5/2024) 🪶#birds
A songbird with a blue-gray head, black throat, olive back, and yellow body stands on the ground. The same songbird with a blue-gray head, black throat, olive back, and yellow body stands on the ground. A brown sparrow with thin black breast streaks and buffy malar lurks in the shadow of a bush. A gray-brown songbird with a buffy face, eyeing, and spotted breast stands on the ground.
June 10, 2024 at 2:27 AM
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ITS WARBLIN TIME!!!
May 15, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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Spring migration warblers in Prospect Park, Brooklyn: Blackpoll, Common Yellowthroat, Hooded, and (a really special visitor for NYC) Golden-Winged (5/11/2024) #birds 🪶
A small song bird with black cap, black streak on its back, and orange legs crouches on a twig under green leaves. A olive small song bird with a yellow throat and black mask stands on a twig among green shoots. A small yellow song bird with a black hood & chin and olive back & wings stands on a branch on a forest floor. A small song bird with a black eyeline & chin and yellow forehead & wing shoulder patches perches high in a tree on a branch under green leaves.
May 15, 2024 at 10:12 AM
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Spring migration in Prospect Park, Brooklyn (compound adjective warbler edition): Bay-breasted, Black-throated Green, Chestnut-sided, & Black-throated Blue (5/11/2024) #birds 🪶
A small song bird with rich rufous coloration on head, throat, and sides stands on a small branch under green leaves. A small song bird with a bright green-yellow head, black throat, and black-streaked back and sides peers down from a branch under green leaves. A small song bird with a highlighter-yellow cap, black eye patch, and chestnut streaking on its flanks stands on a small branch among green leaves. A small song bird with a navy blue cap, back, and wings, and black face and throat, sits on a small branch among green leaves.
May 15, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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Something you don't see every day in Midtown Manhattan: a wild turkey! 🪶
This female was found to be hanging out in front of an office building, foraging in the planters and checking herself out in a mirrored column. Other than being out of place, she seems fine.
A female wild turkey checks out her reflection in the mirrored surface of an office building facade in Midtown Manhattan.
May 9, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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Turkey in midtown Manhattan! Hope it gets out safely. (5/7/2024) #birds 🪶
A large dark fowl with subtle brown and orange tones across its feathers stands on a planter.
May 7, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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Real and implied species.
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A six-panel cartoon titled "real and implied birds". In the two panels in the top row, there's a rough legged-hawk sailing through the sky, next to a smooth legged hawk, which has smooth human legs. In the second row, there's a great-crested flycatcher looking dapper, next to an ok-crested flycatcher that has just a slightly less nice crest. In the third row, there's a mountain chickadee standing up on stones, next to a valley chickadee peeking out from a dip between stones. In the fourth row, there's a least bittern standing in some reeds, next to a most bittern that is enormous and stomping through a city, with people running in fear, helicopters overhead, and an overturned car on fire.
May 1, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Arrangement in yellow and blue. Spring migration in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery featuring prairie warblers and blue grosbeaks (4/14/2024) 🪶 #birds
A small yellow songbird with a dark semicircle under its eye perches on a small branch. A cinnamon songbird with a large head and chunky bill has patches of blue coming into its plumage around its face, wings, and tail. A small yellow songbird with a dark semicircle under its eye perches on an inclined branch. Its bill is open wide in song, which sounds like an ascending UFO in a 1980s video game. A richly blue songbird with a large head, chunky bill, and cinnamon wing bars stands in the grass.
April 15, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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Scenes from Central Park: an overwintering green-winged teal joined by a palm warbler and northern rough-winged swallows arriving on their migration north (4/13/2024) 🪶 #birds
A small duck with a reddish head and broad green eye streak, gray body with white breast bar. A little yellow song bird with a rufous cap and breast streaks stands on a branch. A brown swallow with its wings and tail outstretched soars over water. A similar brown swallow flies over water with its reflection under it. Its white under tail coverts are visible around its closed tail feathers.
April 14, 2024 at 1:44 AM
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Skulky birds of Bryant Park: Virginia rail & American woodcock. The former is an uncommon visitor while the latter is a regular migrant at the park (4/5/2024) 🪶#birds
A stocky orangish-brown bird with a gray face, red eye, and medium-length orange bill sits on the ground in a flower bed. The same bird standing in a flowerbed amidst sprouting green stems. A rounded orange-black bird with a big dark eye set back on its head and a long bill sits in the middle of an ivy patch. Same bird with just its head poking above the ivy.
April 6, 2024 at 1:05 AM
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Chickadees are Memory Geniuses. Their Barcode-Like Neural Activity May Be To Thank.
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March 29, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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The early signs of spring migration are upon us: swamp sparrow, pine warbler, ruby-crowned kinglet, and Eastern phoebe. Central Park (3/22/2024) #birds 🪶
A dark brown sparrow with rusty overtones, gray mantle, sides, and bill, and reddish cap sits on a large stone. It looks like the sparrow equivalent of a Terra-firmian. A drab yellowish-gray songbird with two white wing bars perches in a pine tree near a pine cone. Unlike some of its relatives, no complaints about truth in advertising have been filed about it with the Better Business Bureau. A small yellow-olive songbird with white eye crescents, thin little bill, and a trace of a red crest paused briefly from flitting about and perches on a tree branch. Warbler parents point this guy out to their kids when they warn that too much coffee will give you the jitters and stunt your growth. A dark gray flycatcher pumps its tail and perches on a sweetgum branch, scanning the surface of the nearby Pool, ready to sally out and snatch its next victim.
March 26, 2024 at 3:12 AM
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The March Mammal Madness combatant line-up this year is redonk- LOTS of heavy hitters, possible dark horses, and classic underdogs. libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...
The Common Name Bracket in English (Latin binomial, JUMBO, Spanish, & Screen-Reader versions at the LibGuide https://libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalMadness/HowToPlay
February 22, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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A rufous hummingbird visits a feeder in Prospect Park on Presidents’ Day. A vagrant from the West Coast, this is the first one recorded in Brooklyn. The incoming orange gorgets suggest it’s an immature male (2/19/2024) #birdsnyc #birds 🪶
A small hummingbird with a green back & cap, white front, black bill, and orange wash along its face, sides, wings, and tail perches on a twig. The same hummingbird in flight with its wings outstretched back faces left. The orange wash which gives it its rufous name can be seen along its body. The same hummingbird in flight with its wings outstretched forward. Brilliant green reflects from its head, back, and wing lining. The same hummingbird facing the viewer from behind a red plastic feeder shaped like a flower. Several orange gorgets are visible on its throat.
February 22, 2024 at 2:03 AM
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Saturday was an amazing day for raptors around Croton Point Park while on a walk with the Linnaean Society of New York. Bald eagle & peregrine falcon near the MetroNorth station; northern harrier & American kestrel hunting in the grasslands which cap the park’s reclaimed landfill #birds 🪶
An eagle with a white head and tail, yellow beak, and a brown body sits above a very large nest of branches in a tree. A bird with long, pointed wings, short tail, and uniformly barred under wing and body flies to the right against a hazy, blue sky. A long winged, long tailed hawk with a brown streaked body and facial disc flies low through the sky. A small falcon with a blue-gray cap and wings, and rufous back and chest boldly patterned with black dots and streaks perches on a short pole.
January 16, 2024 at 4:35 AM
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So, this happened...
MacGillivray's Warbler, in the boogie down Bronx!
Glad I got to see it, waited around for nearly 2 hours and got it out in the open!

#birding #birds #warbler #BronxNYC
December 29, 2023 at 8:39 PM
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Encountered a mixed flock of purple sandpipers & dunlin feeding on the wave-washed rocks of Governors Island. Fascinating how deftly they maneuvered around the crashing wakes of passing ships. #birds #birdsnyc 🪶
A dark, stocky shorebird with orange bill & legs stands on a harbor rock. A medium-sized dull brown shorebird with dark bill & legs stands on a seaweed-covered rock. Three sandpipers feeding at the watery edge of a rocky ledge. The brownish one on the left is a dunlin. The two dark ones on the right are purple sandpipers. A flock of eleven sandpipers in flight over water.
December 27, 2023 at 1:26 PM
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A MacGillivray’s warbler unexpectedly hopping around in the Bronx. A vagrant species usually found west of the Rockies, it was found by a 13 year old on their local Christmas bird count! #birds #birdsnyc 🪶
A small songbird with a gray head, yellow body, and bold white eye crescents bops along on the ground.
December 24, 2023 at 8:16 PM
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A giant insect, a giant mammal, and a giant reptile walk into a bar. “What’s your order?” the bartender asks. “You should be able to tell that pretty easily just by looking at us,” one of the animals replies, “but it’ll be a lot harder to figure out our genus.”
December 8, 2023 at 3:17 AM
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Happy Thanksgiving from NYC!
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A trio of Wild Turkeys walk along a road in front of a mural depicting the American flag.
November 23, 2023 at 1:48 AM
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I was fortunate to see the extremely rare Black-Chinned Hummingbird today at Randalls Island, NYC. Thanks to the park staff and other birders who found and ID'd it - the first ever record for New York state!
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A Black-Chinned Hummingbird hovers in front of a red flower.
November 21, 2023 at 2:06 AM
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Fortunate to have a fascinating behind-the-scenes view into the AMNH butterfly collection from curator David Grimaldi & Invertebrate Zoology chair @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social, including a selection of exotic & local butterflies from its 3.5 million Lepidoptera specimens and the new vivarium 🦋
Dr. Ware stands in the center of a small group of enthralled onlookers wearing a red jacket with a dragonfly brooch, her hands outstretched toward a specimen display case off screen. Top view of a specimen display case with nine birding butterflies arranged in three rows of three. These large butterflies range in color from metallic greens and rich blues to oranges and bold browns. Top view of a specimen display case with thirty small to medium sized butterflies. Most are brown, orange, and/or black in coloration. Two live butterflies perch on the same plant leaf. The larger one is white with bold black patterning. The smaller one is orange and black.
December 5, 2023 at 4:27 AM