Scotty Makes the Times

By Corey • February 25, 2008 • No comments yet

The New York Times has an article about the Scott’s Oriole in Union Square Park. We, of course, were well ahead of the mainstream media in reporting on the bird.

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Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. 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, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

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