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What Might You See This Week?
Please have a look at Bob's weekly narrative report on what was seen on his Central Park walks in recent days and weeks. A good way to predict what birds you might possibly see on this week's walks.
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Christmas Bird Counts 100 years ago: CONNECTICUT and NEW JERSEY (December 1923)
This bird that now breeds and winters in NYC extensively (2023)...but was not seen on any Christmas Bird Count in our area in 1923.
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
Dec 29, 202317 min read
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Christmas Bird Counts: LONG ISLAND (1923) and the BRONX (1933):
100 years ago on NYC area CBCs, Pine Grosbeaks, Bobwhite Quail, Eastern Meadowlarks were observed. And the BCBC was just getting started!
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
Dec 21, 202314 min read
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Christmas Bird Count Season Begins: Central Park/NYC in 1923 and 2023
Christmas Bird Count results NYC December 1923 (Bobwhite Quail; Eastern Meadowlarks); Three western hummingbird species in Manhattan 2001-23
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
Dec 13, 202314 min read
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The Ethics of Watching OWLS in NYC - February 2023
You can't keep NYC people away from owls in our parks. We discuss why this is good for you to go see them - and ultimately good for owls.
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Feb 16, 202316 min read
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An Old-time Naturalist in Central Park 1895-1915: Anne Crolius
We introduce the first citizen scientist of Central Park: Anne Crolius who recorded rare birds and others in the park 1895-1915
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Jan 26, 202317 min read
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The Long-eared Owls of Kikinda SERBIA
Kikinda, Serbia is the world capitol of wintering Long-eared Owls: up to 1500 have been counted. We take you there.
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Jan 12, 202314 min read
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Christmas Bird Counts of 1922: Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la
We look at NYC area Christmas Bird Counts from one hundred years ago - how numbers and species of birds have changed (often for the better).
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Dec 29, 202218 min read
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The 1922 NYC Christmas Bird Count (+ back home from Namibia/Botswana)
Results of NYC Christmas Bird Counts from 100 years ago (December 1922) + several photos from our recent trip to Namibia-Botswana
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Dec 16, 202211 min read
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Birding during the First World War: Candles in the Rain
Ornithological observations from the trenches of WW1; + a 1970 prayer, written by a Ukrainian New Yorker, to keep the dark away.
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Feb 23, 202210 min read
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Who Discovered the Slaty-backed Gull in Central Park? The Spanish Inquisition.
We set the record straight about how a rare bird was "discovered" in Central Park: by CHANCE (and error)! This is not the first time...
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Feb 10, 202214 min read
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The Bald Eagle in NYC 1866 to 2022
Bald Eagles are urban birds too. Give them city parks w/lakes and reservoirs with ice: they will come. We tell their NYC history herein.
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Feb 5, 202222 min read
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Birding NYC: Christmas Bird Counts 1921 + Central Park Bird Walks 2021
What was a Christmas Bird Count like in NYC in 1921? We send bird lists from several counts that December. And some South Africa photos 2021
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Dec 16, 202111 min read
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Mega Bird Migration Now Now Now - Central Park October 2021
October is the best time to see migrants as they stop to refuel in Central Park.
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Sep 30, 202115 min read
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Last Call Winter Bird Walks: Central Park
The highlands of Mexico are an amazing wintering area for North American warblers from both the eastern and western USA (and Canada) - just
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Feb 26, 202015 min read
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Gyrfalcons, Golden Eagles + = Winter Birds of the Short-Grass Prairie
Deborah Allen sends photos of Gyrfalcons, Golden Eagles and other rare raptors from our recent trip to the short grass prairie of South Dako
Robert DeCandido PhD
Feb 12, 202011 min read
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GEESE! Grand Birds of NYC in Winter
Up until the 1960s most waterfowl species were rare in NYC. Indeed the Canada Goose was an occasional flyover Central Park until the the mid
Robert DeCandido PhD
Jan 29, 202019 min read
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OWL MAN: Irving Kassoy, Barn Owls and the BCBC
In 1936, New Yorker magazine published an article on nesting Barn Owls in the Bronx, and the man (Irving Kassoy) who studied them. We send t
Robert DeCandido PhD
Jan 23, 202019 min read
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Wishing You Eastern Screech-owls for Mid-January 2020
We present a summary of the weather in NYC for November-December 2019, as well as articles about Crossbills in upper Manhattan (1899), and p
Robert DeCandido PhD
Jan 15, 20209 min read
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Winter Birds of the NYC Area - Jan. 2020
This has been a mild January so far, and southern birds such as Painted Buntings can be found in our area. We send photos of this fair weath
Robert DeCandido PhD
Jan 8, 202026 min read
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Iceland Gull (Central Park) + Christmas Bird Counts 1919: LI, SI, NJ and CT
We present the December 1919 Christmas Bird Count from the NYC area to show what birds were commonly found in early winter one hundred years
Robert DeCandido PhD
Jan 1, 202023 min read
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