Juvenile Least Sandpipers are among the most beautiful of shorebirds. Their gorgeous white-fringed feathers and propensity for allowing close approach combine to make them...
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...
When leaving the East Pond of Jamaica Bay on Saturday we came across this sunning Gray Catbird. At first glance we thought it was...
I could watch terns all day long. Flying, hunting, calling, preening, or just sitting around, I find terns fascinating. It just seems so improbable...
A recent visit to the East Pond of the Jamaica Bay got me up close and personal with quite a few species of shorebird,...
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...
The American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos that was first reported from Jamaica Bay on Wednesday, 14 July, (and that I twitched on 15 July)...
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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