After a Barnacle Goose was found in Brooklyn yesterday we Queens birders got jealous. Can you blame us? Anyway, you can imagine how my...
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Canada Geese are a nuisance. They poop everywhere, they are far too common, they take down airplanes. Birders tend to ignore them, non-birders tend...
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Like many birders I am cursed with a job. Considering the economic times we live in that is probably not the most politic way...
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While at Flushing Meadows Corona Park near my house in Queens this evening putting my new lens through its paces,* I was entertained by...
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Queens, NY, March 2010 For some reason, maybe because of the heroic effort I have made of late to get our new apartment completely...
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Flushing Meadows Corona Park, March 2010 Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus is a much-maligned and persecuted creature. Like cormorants and shags the world over they...
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Though they have a world-wide distribution and can be found on every continent except Antarctica, Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia is a bird that is not often spotted...
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It is not every day that the beginning of a birding outing consists of calling 911, but that is how my walk around Meadow...
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