Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
What more is there to say? That the New Zeland Hawk is actually a harrier: Swamp Harrier – Circus approximans.
Why, why, why would one do that? On the positive side, at leat the man was aware that there is such a thing as “bird watching”. Hey, any press is good press.
Oh MY Goodness! Get a life and find another way to have fun or get attention! Perhaps we should spray paint him as punishment. Or better yet, let him serve in a wildlife rehab facility to see and learn what harm his stupid prank could do. I wonder if the hawk was hit because it couldn’t fly properly with spray paint on it?