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the thing about me as a birder is that i don't care about seeing rare birds. i dont give a fuck about seeing rare birds. northern cardinals and tufted titmice are my ride or dies. i will fuck with american robins until my final breath. i fear not the birder who has seen 10,000 birds one time, but one bird 10,000 times

Birding in Style

It's been almost three years since the last time I posted, but I'm still up and about and appreciating all the birds in my day-to-day life!

Something recent exciting bird-related news in my life is that I was asked to write the official guidance on how to style bird names in MLA style! Check out the post below!

Many common English-language bird names consist of nouns or of adjectives followed by generic terms, such as eagle and sparrow. The editoria

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a flock of laughing gulls in winter plumage and a sanderling on the beach in galveston, tx 🥰

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great blue heron at central park with his two brain cells very hard at work

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robins are back it's time for spring

central park

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female hooded merganser (with a treat!) and male hooded merganser at the central park reservoir

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pigeon at central park (feat. mourning dove jumpscare)

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bufflehead couple at the central park reservoir 🥰

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male bufflehead at the central park reservoir!

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female bufflehead!

central park, 13 november 2022

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my FIRST EVER hooded merganser! I've been waiting to see one for literally years and yesterday MY DREAM FINALLY CAME TRUE.

central park, 12 november 2022

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My aunt and uncle who live in the Bay Area sent me these pics of this female hummingbird that's been nesting on a vine on their porch. Cautiously IDing as Anna's hummingbirds, but I'm from the Midwest and don't know my hummingbird species well. The chicks, once eggs smaller than a dime, are all grown up! I cannot emphasize enough that I would literally die for them.

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Hello! Long time, no update.

Since my last post in January, a lot has happened in my life. I graduated* college and now work full-time. I'll also be moving to New York City in a few short months, once my organization returns to in-person work Having grown up in the Midwest and having lived in a small town in SE Pennsylvania for the past four years, this is a big move. I am apprehensive, mostly about the cost of living in NYC on my okay-but-not-amazing salary. I am, however, thrilled about my prospective access to places that sell dumplings. 🥟😋🍽

Perhaps more importantly for this blog, my DSLR broke and I have not had a chance to either fix it or purchase a better camera. I purchased my Nikon Coolpix B500 in 2017 for $350 in anticipation of a trip to France. I have often felt skeptical of wildlife photography as a hobby given that it's like 10% skill, 10% luck, and 80% being able to afford a $6000 camera setup; nevertheless, my beloved Coolpix was my faithful companion through five years and thousands of bird photos, some of which were pretty damn good! Like this female mallard I caught on the partially-frozen Huron River in Ann Arbor in January 2021:

This is all to say that I traveled to NYC this past weekend to get a better feel for the city and insisted on going to the Central Park Reservoir to see some cool ducks. I did see some cool ducks, and did my best to get some decent shots my angling my phone through my birding binoculars. Please enjoy these shots of a male gadwall and male wood duck!

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I am back from hiatus! Here is a female northern saw-whet owl I got to hold at a research station in southeastern PA back in November. Northern saw-whets are the smallest owls in Eastern North America and are just as soft as they look 💕

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Hi all! Though I haven't posted in a while, this blog is NOT inactive. School is just kicking my ass.

Here is a northern saw-whet owl being banded!

the puffiest, roundest robin i've ever seen 💕

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Northern Mockingbird ✨💕

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