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Here are some uncommon birds spotted in WNY this winter. Check out this list of birds spotted by bird watchers on ebird.org's New York Rare Bird Alert. The website gathers this information in the ...
The eastern bluebird is New York's state bird The following list of birds of New York included the 503 species and a species pair of wild birds documented in New York as of August 2022. Unless noted otherwise, the source is the Checklist of New York State Birds published by the New York State Avian Records Committee (NYSARC) of the New York State Ornithological Association. These species ...
Flocks of black birds have been spotted in backyards and parks over the past few weeks in the Triangle, causing many of us to do a double take when we leave our homes or pass a large, grassy field ...
An anhinga sighting in Brooklyn in spring 2023 made headlines in the New York Times; around the same time a flock of 22 of the birds, also known as “water turkeys” or “snake birds,” were ...
North American beaver were once endemic in the New York City area but disappeared in the early 19th century due to being trapped for their fur and deforestation reducing their habitat. [18] The first known sighting of a beaver in the city since that time was in 2007, when one built a lodge along the Bronx River, near the Bronx Zoo. [18]
Unusual bird sightings in New York City attract enough public interest to receive media attention, sometimes granting a level of celebrity to the bird. [79] When a snowy owl was seen in Central Park in 2021, for example, large crowds converged to see it. Snowy owls are not rare in the region, but are very uncommon in Manhattan, and it was the ...
Sightings of these birds are very rare, but they were last spotted here in Baldwinsville in 2021. Calliope Hummingbirds are considered an accidental species in New York, according to Bird Advisors ...
The mandarin duck was first spotted at Central Park's Pond by birder Gus Keri in early October 2018. [1] [2] His appearance was disseminated by another birder, David Barrett, who operates the Twitter account Manhattan Bird Alert and was described as the duck's "kingmaker" and "de-facto PR spokesman".