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Guide to Troubled Birds: showing birds as the jerks they sometimes are
Do you like birds but are not fooled into thinking they’re all tiny, adorable angels with pretty feathers? Then Guide to Troubled Birds is for you. In the spirit of David Sedaris’ Squirrel Seeks...
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Parks Service Wants to Hunt Fire Island Deer Again
Fire Island Deer in Contraceptive Program The National Parks Service has come up with a surprisingly illogical new plan for the deer of Fire Island: they want to kill most of them off with...
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Did a Hunter Leave a Dead Bear in Central Park to Teach New Yorkers a Lesson?
Yesterday a dead bear cub turned up in Central Park with some sort of horrible injury–the cops aren’t saying what. I have to wonder if a hunter had something to do with it given how prominently the...
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Peter Capaldi’s Leonardo da Vinci loves animals, mocks humans
Leonardo da Vinci wrote in his encrypted diaries that his first memory was a bird of prey visiting him in a crib and sticking a tailfeather in his mouth. That’s just one of the freakish tidbits of the...
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5-0 on the Long Meadow: Cops bust French bulldog meetup in Prospect Park
BUSTED! Cops ticket the least threatening person in the park they can find: a young mom pushing a stroller and attending a French bulldog meetup. The City of New York executed a daring undercover...
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Cardinal
For about four years I’ve been tracking the cardinals of Prospect Park, cultivating a friendship with generations of them along a path in the Ravine–and all the time hoping and scheming to get to see...
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Puffins near Portland
Puffin swims by tour boat Puffins are one of the oddest, most charming and hardest to see birds to see in the United States, but it’s getting easier. The birds spend almost all their time on the ocean,...
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Praying Mantis Clumsily Eats Bees in Brooklyn
This praying mantis lady is eating a bee. I was shocked to find a praying mantis sitting on a flower in a Brooklyn park this week. How rare! Aren’t they endangered? Well, I was shocked again to find...
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Bats get cold and fall onto ground in Autumn; they need a warm-up treat
Bat alert and ready to go after warming up. Bats in New York City are falling wearily onto sidewalks in our recent sudden cold spell. This morning I found one–at first mistaking the gray fur for a dead...
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How to Fly with Emotional Support Dogs
Emotional Support Animals in action. Beagles get ready to board a plane. Over Christmas I flew roundtrip from New York to Chicago in a way that goes against everything airlines stand for today: I paid...
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