Short-billed Dowitchers are one of those species that, at least for me, fade into the background once I have seen my first of the...
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When leaving the East Pond of Jamaica Bay on Saturday we came across this sunning Gray Catbird. At first glance we thought it was...
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I could watch terns all day long. Flying, hunting, calling, preening, or just sitting around, I find terns fascinating. It just seems so improbable...
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A recent visit to the East Pond of the Jamaica Bay got me up close and personal with quite a few species of shorebird,...
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This year has been a good year to see Wilson’s Phalaropes at Jamaica Bay. There were several that stopped by this spring on their...
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The American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos that was first reported from Jamaica Bay on Wednesday, 14 July, (and that I twitched on 15 July)...
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It has been six days now since about 400 Canada Geese that had been living on the lake at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, were rounded...
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On one of my recent visits to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge I was fortunate enough to come across a cooperative Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax...
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