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Wallcreeper in New York!

November 3, 2014 by Corey 4 Comments

Well maybe it’s just a Brown Creeper on a wall. But that’s still interesting, right? Right? Fine. It’s not anywhere near as interesting as one...

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How Do You Stop Ravens From Destroying Your Car?

November 1, 2014 by Corey 9 Comments

A good friend of my mother’s back in my hometown of Saugerties, New York, is having a problem. She and her coworkers have had...

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The Ruddy Shelduck Twitch

October 30, 2014 by Dragan 9 Comments

One of those mornings that somehow let the light in, but without a trace of sun. I leave tarmac behind, entering a dirt track...

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The Sunda Teals of Jakarta

October 26, 2014 by Jochen 2 Comments

The Sunda Teal is a brown duck. This may make it very popular amongst European birders who can relate, but it doesn’t make it...

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Mystery ID – Solved

October 25, 2014 by Redgannet 1 Comment

In the forests of South America, a birder is likely to cross the path of a feeding flock of brown birds represented by Woodcreepers,...

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A White Brown-headed Cowbird

October 24, 2014 by Corey 1 Comment

I was sorting through a large mixed flock of Brown-headed Cowbirds and European Starlings at Fort Tilden on Friday morning when Isaac Grant, the intrepid...

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My Favorite Release

by Suzie 1 Comment

So I asked seven wildlife rehabilitators, “Tell me your favorite (or one of your favorites) release story – the kind that makes you keep...

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An odd foraging behavior for a Vulture

October 23, 2014 by Alfredo Begazo 4 Comments

New World vultures of the genus Cathartes (Greater Yellow-headed, Lesser Yellow-headed and Turkey Vultures) look much alike. Greater and Lesser Yellow-headed Vultures are so...

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