Fascinating three-species interaction: a Cooper’s hawk harassed and chased away by purple martins and an Eastern kingbird, Shawangunk Grasslands NWR (5/25/2024) 🪶#birds
Late migrants at Bryant Park: mourning warbler, Lincoln’s sparrow, Swainson’s thrush. Mourning warblers are uncommon visitors to the New York Public Library, but this was one of a group of 4-5 stopping by. (6/5/2024) 🪶#birds
Spring migration warblers in Prospect Park, Brooklyn: Blackpoll, Common Yellowthroat, Hooded, and (a really special visitor for NYC) Golden-Winged (5/11/2024) #birds 🪶
Spring migration warblers in Prospect Park, Brooklyn: Blackpoll, Common Yellowthroat, Hooded, and (a really special visitor for NYC) Golden-Winged (5/11/2024) #birds 🪶
Spring migration in Prospect Park, Brooklyn (compound adjective warbler edition): Bay-breasted, Black-throated Green, Chestnut-sided, & Black-throated Blue (5/11/2024) #birds 🪶
Something you don't see every day in Midtown Manhattan: a wild turkey! 🪶
This female was found to be hanging out in front of an office building, foraging in the planters and checking herself out in a mirrored column. Other than being out of place, she seems fine.
Scenes from Central Park: an overwintering green-winged teal joined by a palm warbler and northern rough-winged swallows arriving on their migration north (4/13/2024) 🪶 #birds
Skulky birds of Bryant Park: Virginia rail & American woodcock. The former is an uncommon visitor while the latter is a regular migrant at the park (4/5/2024) 🪶#birds
The early signs of spring migration are upon us: swamp sparrow, pine warbler, ruby-crowned kinglet, and Eastern phoebe. Central Park (3/22/2024) #birds 🪶
The March Mammal Madness combatant line-up this year is redonk- LOTS of heavy hitters, possible dark horses, and classic underdogs. libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...
A rufous hummingbird visits a feeder in Prospect Park on Presidents’ Day. A vagrant from the West Coast, this is the first one recorded in Brooklyn. The incoming orange gorgets suggest it’s an immature male (2/19/2024) #birdsnyc#birds 🪶
Saturday was an amazing day for raptors around Croton Point Park while on a walk with the Linnaean Society of New York. Bald eagle & peregrine falcon near the MetroNorth station; northern harrier & American kestrel hunting in the grasslands which cap the park’s reclaimed landfill #birds 🪶
So, this happened...
MacGillivray's Warbler, in the boogie down Bronx!
Glad I got to see it, waited around for nearly 2 hours and got it out in the open!
#birding#birds#warbler#BronxNYC
Encountered a mixed flock of purple sandpipers & dunlin feeding on the wave-washed rocks of Governors Island. Fascinating how deftly they maneuvered around the crashing wakes of passing ships. #birds#birdsnyc 🪶
A MacGillivray’s warbler unexpectedly hopping around in the Bronx. A vagrant species usually found west of the Rockies, it was found by a 13 year old on their local Christmas bird count! #birds#birdsnyc 🪶
A giant insect, a giant mammal, and a giant reptile walk into a bar. “What’s your order?” the bartender asks. “You should be able to tell that pretty easily just by looking at us,” one of the animals replies, “but it’ll be a lot harder to figure out our genus.”
I was fortunate to see the extremely rare Black-Chinned Hummingbird today at Randalls Island, NYC. Thanks to the park staff and other birders who found and ID'd it - the first ever record for New York state!
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Fortunate to have a fascinating behind-the-scenes view into the AMNH butterfly collection from curator David Grimaldi & Invertebrate Zoology chair @jessicalwarelab.bsky.social, including a selection of exotic & local butterflies from its 3.5 million Lepidoptera specimens and the new vivarium 🦋
Black and white photo time! Anyone else have some black and white nature to share? Inspired by @azgibsonz.bsky.social's lovely posts today.
Look at these two very serious birds!
(Bald Eagles being awesome) #birds 🌿
It's that time again. I made this comic a few years ago, and now I hear people using the phrase "weird duck time" without knowing where it came from, which makes me happy beyond words. Here's to the season of spectacular ducks 🪶
Happened upon a plethora of purple sandpipers hopping on the shoreline rocks along the Belt Parkway Promenade in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Lifer! (11/25/2023) 🪶#birds #birdsnyc
A juvenile peregrine falcon patrols its domain as it considers its dining options among the waterfowl gathered at the Jamaica Bay WR West Pond (11/18/2023) #birds#birdsnyc 🪶
