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Food-Carrying Common Terns

August 14, 2010 by Corey 1 Comment

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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Pectoral Sandpipers Calidris melanotos at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

August 6, 2010 by Corey 6 Comments

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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Molting Juvenile Wilson’s Phalarope Phalaropus tricolor

August 4, 2010 by Corey 4 Comments

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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American White Pelican at Jamaica Bay

July 18, 2010 by Corey 10 Comments

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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Thoughts on the Gassing of Geese in Prospect Park

July 14, 2010 by Corey 23 Comments

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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Black-crowned Night Heron at Big John’s Pond

July 10, 2010 by Corey 8 Comments

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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The Ravens in Queens have Fledged

June 8, 2010 by Corey 7 Comments

The first ever documented nesting of Common Ravens in New York City ended successfully, with all three nestlings becoming fledglings. The happy change in...

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