Sound Ethical Birding: Comments from Scientists
Using sound to bring in birds is educational, ethical, fun - all good. We provide comments from the Experts.
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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Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- May 26
- 12 min
Philadelphia Vireo: Always Rare on Migration in Central Park (1900-2021)
We provide the history of a rare migrant in our area: the Philadelphia Vireo.
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- May 19
- 11 min
Prothonotary Warbler: Central Park
The arrival of a Prothonotary Warbler anywhere in our area is a big event. We send historical notes on this bird in NYC, and breeding on LI.
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- May 12
- 8 min
Best Birding of 2021 is Now ~ mid-May
Besides amazing bird walks we send historical info on a big fall-out of migrants in Madison Square Park on 15 May 1921 exactly 100 years ago
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- May 5
- 11 min
The Vaccination = Birding Central Park
Rare Warblers for Central Park: Yellow-throated and Cerulean...and how Deborah Allen determined they were first spring males.
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- Apr 28
- 13 min
Everybody, Everybody...Birds are Over Here
Spring Birding Supremissimo is about Birds and NYC Birders
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- Apr 21
- 10 min
Migrants: WARBLERS Migrants: VIREOS Migrants: SPARROWS Migrants: BIRDS!
Migration: Bird Walks; Central Park: Bird Walks; Mornings (5) and Evenings (2): Bird Walks.
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- Apr 15
- 17 min
BIG WAVE WEEKEND: Warblers +++
Migrant Warblers arriving now; Great Horned Owlets ready to fledge. And Central Park in Spring 1982: what a difference 40 years makes!
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- Apr 7
- 7 min
Spring is Acumen: the Occurrence of the Black-backed Robin in Central Park
Yes the Black-backed Robin is a real bird; yes it occurs in Central Park annually - but no one knows to look for it! We send details...
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- Mar 31
- 8 min
Beyond Good or Bad: Becoming an EVIL BIRDER
Being a bad birder is no longer good enough. In this Newsletter we give "slights" on how to be a truly evil birder.
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- Mar 24
- 8 min
Great Horned Owls in Gotham + A History of March Weather in NYC
March in NYC is warmer now than in the 19th century: we can find spring migrants AND nesting Great Horned Owls without trudging through snow
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- Mar 17
- 12 min
Cry, the Beloved Park
A brief history of the American Robin and American Woodcock in Manhattan in the mid- to late 19th century.
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- Mar 4
- 11 min
The New York City REDHEAD
REDHEAD! We trace the history of this rare NYC visitor from the late 19th century to the present.
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- Feb 17
- 11 min
Remembering Tom Ahlf (1947-2021) + + the Snowy Owl in Queens 1964-1989
Tom Ahlf stood as tall as anyone who has birded Central Park. We commemorate his life. And, 25 years of Snowy Owl data from Queens.
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- Feb 5
- 13 min
The Snowy Owl in NYC, mostly pre-1900
Th early history of the Snowy Owl in NYC and environs. They've always come into cities (for the food) - and fascinated even non-birders
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- Jan 20
- 10 min
NYC Cardinals, Chocolate Snow and the Weather, the Weather
Are NYC Cardinals indicators of mild winters? + A summary of the second warmest year on record in NYC: 2020
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- Jan 14
- 20 min
City of Great Horned Owls (Part 2)
Where and when do Great Horned Owls nest in NYC? When do young leave the nest? Info and photo documentation in this Newsletter.
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- Jan 6
- 13 min
City of Great Horned Owls (Part 1)
Herein we tell the story how Great Horned Owls, once rare in NYC (1900) now nest in every boro 2011-2021.
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- Dec 30, 2020
- 16 min
Goose, Duck, Owl: Welcome January 2021
The first record (EVER) of Greater White-fronted Goose for Central Park; how to see a Snowy Owl; CBCs, December 1920, for New Jersey.
Deborah Allen and Robert DeCandido PhD
- Dec 23, 2020
- 12 min
Christmas Bird Counts NYC in 1920 and Alvah Bessie: Black-listed Author/Birder
CBCs are about birds AND people. We feature a 1920s "not-famous-enough" NYC Birder: Alvah C. Bessie soldier, novelist and playwright.