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Review of The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State

December 8, 2008 by Corey 5 Comments

I’m a New Yorker. I was born in the Hudson Valley and grew up in the Catskills, went to school in the Southern Tier,...

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Owl’s Well That Ends Well

In recounting my Rochester Snowy Owl encounter last week, I mentioned my new birding buddy, Laura Kammermeier. Bill of the Birds made our mutual...

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What State Searches For…

December 7, 2008 by Corey No Comments

bird blogs most often (per capita)? Washington State, of course. StateStats lets one choose a term and see what state searches for that term...

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What’s Your Spark Bird?

December 6, 2008 by Mike 2 Comments

In birding parlance, a “spark bird” is the species that mutates one’s benign regard for nature into a seething, immoderate interest in avifauna. Do...

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Just For Fun Avian ID Quiz #9 Answer

by Jory 2 Comments

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster. It’s Saturday. That means...

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Birding for Everyone: Encouraging People of Color to Become Birdwatchers

by Mike 9 Comments

Years ago, I wrote about the glaring homogeneity in North American birding circles and by glaring, I mean all that bright white skin. The...

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Harriers, Shrikes, and Siskins: Upstate Birding Day

December 5, 2008 by Corey 4 Comments

Saturday, two days after Thanksgiving, started with a predawn dark ride up the Thruway from Saugerties to Coxsackie where the Coxsackie Boat Launch, the...

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