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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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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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Winter = OWLS in NYC (+ Historical Long Island Christmas Bird Counts - 1922)
"A flock of Scoters 1.5 miles long and often 400 yards wide, off Montauk Point, is the greatest flock of Ducks I ever saw in the northeast."
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Dec 22, 202211 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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This Hawk is an Imposter
A true story of an imposter hawk in winter 1890 at the Brooklyn Bridge; + Details of a special bird walk at NYBG in the Bronx (Saturday).
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Jan 5, 202212 min read
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The 1921 and 1971 Christmas Counts of the NYC Area: A Century of Change
We examine Christmas Bird Counts from 100 years ago, and from 50 years ago: what changes in the birds of the NYC area!
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Dec 22, 202113 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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