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Macho house sparrows
Two male house sparrows were in such a brawl last week my friends and I wondered if they were somehow stuck on each other, like elk with locked antlers. They were rolling around in the gutter, beaks...
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Brooklyn hatches its first native great horned owlets in a century
Two Brooklyn great horned owlets on nest, through spotting scope The pair of great horned owls nesting in Prospect Park successfully hatched two owlets. The young owls, now several weeks old. You can...
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More of Brooklyn’s secret owl family
Fuzzy great horned owl in Prospect Park Got to see more of the owl family in Prospect Park in the last couple days. And hear first-hand some of the reasons to keep it all hush-hush. The two owl chicks...
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Gilibrand rushes killing geese at refuge near JFK, where they haven’t hit a...
Since floundering NY governor David Patterson appointed upstate, pro-NRA Kirsten Gillibrand to the senate, she has introduced a wild array of bills, seemingly aimed at winning over skeptical New...
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Would you be nicer to pigeons if they were green?
I’ve often thought people would hate pigeons less if they just had some pretty colored feathers instead of their dirty gray look. Swiss artist Julian Charrière gave it a try: he gave dozens of pigeons...
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Moths drawn to lights, rotten beer, often against their best interests
Lawyer and moth-er (as in moth collector) Harry Zirlin has his own special recipe for brewing moth mung, or bait, that he smears on trees like sap. He uses a bottle of beer, a few bad bananas,...
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Goose from Greenland has many Brooklyn fans, but Canada geese not among them
A lone barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis), who apparently took a wrong right turn from Greenland and ended up in Brooklyn, is charming lots of birders. But his fans don’t include the flock of Canada...
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Reader question: what’s up with this squirrel’s raggedy fur?
Know what’s wrong with this squirrel? From time to time we get random animal questions from readers. I figured I’d answer some of the fun ones here. Got an intriguing animal query? Send it to...
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Monster quest: finding the giant snapping turtle of Prospect Park–before NY...
Snapping turtle in the Phragmites of Prospect Park Lake. For months I have been chasing the biggest animal in Prospect Park, an enormous snapping turtle, hoping to get a picture, or at least a glimpse....
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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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