[nysbirds-l] White winged Dove. Report. Jones Beach this afternoon

2022-06-09 Thread Richard Guthrie
Said to be feeding on seeds in the parking lot by the Coast Guard Station 

Rich Guthrie  

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[nysbirds-l] White winged Dove. Report. Jones Beach this afternoon

2022-06-09 Thread Richard Guthrie
Said to be feeding on seeds in the parking lot by the Coast Guard Station 

Rich Guthrie  

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[nysbirds-l] Scissor-tailed Flycatcher @ Stony Kill Farm Environmental Center, Wappinger…

2022-06-09 Thread Andrew Baksh
I just picked up this over the wire from John Askildsen:

“Scissor-tailed flycatcher at stony kill farm environmental center, wappinger 
now. Nrsr manor house.”

Someone is sure to post more deets. I hope….


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風 Swift as the wind
林 Quiet as the forest
火 Conquer like the fire
山 Steady as the mountain
Sun Tzu  The Art of War

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[nysbirds-l] Scissor-tailed Flycatcher @ Stony Kill Farm Environmental Center, Wappinger…

2022-06-09 Thread Andrew Baksh
I just picked up this over the wire from John Askildsen:

“Scissor-tailed flycatcher at stony kill farm environmental center, wappinger 
now. Nrsr manor house.”

Someone is sure to post more deets. I hope….


“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves could free our 
mind.” ~ Bob Marley

“Tenderness and Kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but 
manifestations of strength and resolution” ~ Khalil Gibran

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of 
others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick 
Douglass

風 Swift as the wind
林 Quiet as the forest
火 Conquer like the fire
山 Steady as the mountain
Sun Tzu  The Art of War

> (\__/)
> (= '.'=)
> (") _ (") 
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[nysbirds-l] White-winged Dove @ Jones Beach Coast Guard Station Parking Lot…

2022-06-09 Thread Andrew Baksh
I picked up a message from Gary Strauss who reports a White-winged Dove at 
Jones Beach Coast Guard Station Parking lot. Apparently found by someone else 
but Gary did not know her name so I am unable to give her credit.

There have also been reports of both Wilson’s and Red-necked Phalaropes over 
the past few days also at Jones Beach Coast Guard Station which have not made 
it to the list-serves as far as I know.

It was quite pleasing to get a report from Gary and knowing that he is still 
out and about ticking birds. 

Bless up!

“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves could free our 
mind.” ~ Bob Marley

“Tenderness and Kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but 
manifestations of strength and resolution” ~ Khalil Gibran

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of 
others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick 
Douglass

風 Swift as the wind
林 Quiet as the forest
火 Conquer like the fire
山 Steady as the mountain
Sun Tzu  The Art of War

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> (= '.'=)
> (") _ (") 
> Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! 

Andrew Baksh
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[nysbirds-l] White-winged Dove @ Jones Beach Coast Guard Station Parking Lot…

2022-06-09 Thread Andrew Baksh
I picked up a message from Gary Strauss who reports a White-winged Dove at 
Jones Beach Coast Guard Station Parking lot. Apparently found by someone else 
but Gary did not know her name so I am unable to give her credit.

There have also been reports of both Wilson’s and Red-necked Phalaropes over 
the past few days also at Jones Beach Coast Guard Station which have not made 
it to the list-serves as far as I know.

It was quite pleasing to get a report from Gary and knowing that he is still 
out and about ticking birds. 

Bless up!

“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves could free our 
mind.” ~ Bob Marley

“Tenderness and Kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but 
manifestations of strength and resolution” ~ Khalil Gibran

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of 
others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick 
Douglass

風 Swift as the wind
林 Quiet as the forest
火 Conquer like the fire
山 Steady as the mountain
Sun Tzu  The Art of War

> (\__/)
> (= '.'=)
> (") _ (") 
> Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! 

Andrew Baksh
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Dead Shearwaters on the Beach

2022-06-09 Thread Paul R Sweet
Thank you for posting this Shai.

If you do find a freshly dead Shearwater, or any other unusual wrecked seabird, 
please do consider salvaging it for the AMNH. If you could freeze the specimen 
and record locality and date, we can make arrangements to collect. I recommend 
double bagging.

Paul

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> On Jun 9, 2022, at 9:07 PM, Shaibal Mitra  wrote:
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> This morning Patricia Lindsay and I found one dead Great Shearwater and four 
> dead Sooty Shearwaters along ca. two miles of beachfront at Democrat Point, 
> southwestern Suffolk County. Mentioning this to others in our circle, I 
> learned second-hand of reports today of many dead shearwaters along the beach 
> in the Montauk area. If you are visiting the beaches over the next few days, 
> please take a few minutes to check the wrack line for these birds. If unsure 
> of the identification, please take a photo and feel free to contact me. If 
> the bird is in fresh condition (checking the eyes is an easy way to tell), 
> consider salvaging it for Paul Sweet at the American Museum of Natural 
> History. If you cover some ground searching, be sure to measure or estimate 
> the distance covered.
> 
> Many on this list will remember June 2017, when there was a spectacular 
> inshore movement of Great Shearwaters along the whole Long Island coast, 
> including much further west than usual, followed by the discovery of large 
> numbers of dead birds.
> 
> We also saw living Great and Cory's Shearwaters this morning, our first of 
> the year.
> 
> Shai Mitra
> Bay Shore
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Re: [nysbirds-l] Dead Shearwaters on the Beach

2022-06-09 Thread Paul R Sweet
Thank you for posting this Shai.

If you do find a freshly dead Shearwater, or any other unusual wrecked seabird, 
please do consider salvaging it for the AMNH. If you could freeze the specimen 
and record locality and date, we can make arrangements to collect. I recommend 
double bagging.

Paul

Paul Sweet | Collection Manager | Department of Ornithology | American Museum 
of Natural History | 200 Central Park West | NY 10024 | Tel 212 769 5780 | Mob 
718 757 5941

> On Jun 9, 2022, at 9:07 PM, Shaibal Mitra  wrote:
> 
> EXTERNAL SENDER
> 
> 
> This morning Patricia Lindsay and I found one dead Great Shearwater and four 
> dead Sooty Shearwaters along ca. two miles of beachfront at Democrat Point, 
> southwestern Suffolk County. Mentioning this to others in our circle, I 
> learned second-hand of reports today of many dead shearwaters along the beach 
> in the Montauk area. If you are visiting the beaches over the next few days, 
> please take a few minutes to check the wrack line for these birds. If unsure 
> of the identification, please take a photo and feel free to contact me. If 
> the bird is in fresh condition (checking the eyes is an easy way to tell), 
> consider salvaging it for Paul Sweet at the American Museum of Natural 
> History. If you cover some ground searching, be sure to measure or estimate 
> the distance covered.
> 
> Many on this list will remember June 2017, when there was a spectacular 
> inshore movement of Great Shearwaters along the whole Long Island coast, 
> including much further west than usual, followed by the discovery of large 
> numbers of dead birds.
> 
> We also saw living Great and Cory's Shearwaters this morning, our first of 
> the year.
> 
> Shai Mitra
> Bay Shore
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RE:[nysbirds-l] Dead Shearwaters on the Beach

2022-06-09 Thread McIntyre, Annie M (PARKS)
5 washed up at Jones Beach today as well. 

Annie McIntyre
Regional Environmental Manager

New York State Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation 
PO Box 247
Babylon, NY  11702
Office: (631) 581-1072  |   Fax: (631) 224-8435   |   Email: 
annie.mcint...@parks.ny.gov

www.parks.ny.gov 


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From: bounce-126610396-46591...@list.cornell.edu 
 On Behalf Of Shaibal Mitra
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2022 4:07 PM
To: NYSBIRDS (NYSBIRDS-L@cornell.edu) 
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Dead Shearwaters on the Beach

ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or 
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This morning Patricia Lindsay and I found one dead Great Shearwater and four 
dead Sooty Shearwaters along ca. two miles of beachfront at Democrat Point, 
southwestern Suffolk County. Mentioning this to others in our circle, I learned 
second-hand of reports today of many dead shearwaters along the beach in the 
Montauk area. If you are visiting the beaches over the next few days, please 
take a few minutes to check the wrack line for these birds. If unsure of the 
identification, please take a photo and feel free to contact me. If the bird is 
in fresh condition (checking the eyes is an easy way to tell), consider 
salvaging it for Paul Sweet at the American Museum of Natural History. If you 
cover some ground searching, be sure to measure or estimate the distance 
covered.

Many on this list will remember June 2017, when there was a spectacular inshore 
movement of Great Shearwaters along the whole Long Island coast, including much 
further west than usual, followed by the discovery of large numbers of dead 
birds.

We also saw living Great and Cory's Shearwaters this morning, our first of the 
year.

Shai Mitra
Bay Shore
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RE:[nysbirds-l] Dead Shearwaters on the Beach

2022-06-09 Thread McIntyre, Annie M (PARKS)
5 washed up at Jones Beach today as well. 

Annie McIntyre
Regional Environmental Manager

New York State Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation 
PO Box 247
Babylon, NY  11702
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This morning Patricia Lindsay and I found one dead Great Shearwater and four 
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second-hand of reports today of many dead shearwaters along the beach in the 
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take a few minutes to check the wrack line for these birds. If unsure of the 
identification, please take a photo and feel free to contact me. If the bird is 
in fresh condition (checking the eyes is an easy way to tell), consider 
salvaging it for Paul Sweet at the American Museum of Natural History. If you 
cover some ground searching, be sure to measure or estimate the distance 
covered.

Many on this list will remember June 2017, when there was a spectacular inshore 
movement of Great Shearwaters along the whole Long Island coast, including much 
further west than usual, followed by the discovery of large numbers of dead 
birds.

We also saw living Great and Cory's Shearwaters this morning, our first of the 
year.

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[nysbirds-l] Dead Shearwaters on the Beach

2022-06-09 Thread Shaibal Mitra
This morning Patricia Lindsay and I found one dead Great Shearwater and four 
dead Sooty Shearwaters along ca. two miles of beachfront at Democrat Point, 
southwestern Suffolk County. Mentioning this to others in our circle, I learned 
second-hand of reports today of many dead shearwaters along the beach in the 
Montauk area. If you are visiting the beaches over the next few days, please 
take a few minutes to check the wrack line for these birds. If unsure of the 
identification, please take a photo and feel free to contact me. If the bird is 
in fresh condition (checking the eyes is an easy way to tell), consider 
salvaging it for Paul Sweet at the American Museum of Natural History. If you 
cover some ground searching, be sure to measure or estimate the distance 
covered.

Many on this list will remember June 2017, when there was a spectacular inshore 
movement of Great Shearwaters along the whole Long Island coast, including much 
further west than usual, followed by the discovery of large numbers of dead 
birds.

We also saw living Great and Cory's Shearwaters this morning, our first of the 
year.

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[nysbirds-l] Dead Shearwaters on the Beach

2022-06-09 Thread Shaibal Mitra
This morning Patricia Lindsay and I found one dead Great Shearwater and four 
dead Sooty Shearwaters along ca. two miles of beachfront at Democrat Point, 
southwestern Suffolk County. Mentioning this to others in our circle, I learned 
second-hand of reports today of many dead shearwaters along the beach in the 
Montauk area. If you are visiting the beaches over the next few days, please 
take a few minutes to check the wrack line for these birds. If unsure of the 
identification, please take a photo and feel free to contact me. If the bird is 
in fresh condition (checking the eyes is an easy way to tell), consider 
salvaging it for Paul Sweet at the American Museum of Natural History. If you 
cover some ground searching, be sure to measure or estimate the distance 
covered.

Many on this list will remember June 2017, when there was a spectacular inshore 
movement of Great Shearwaters along the whole Long Island coast, including much 
further west than usual, followed by the discovery of large numbers of dead 
birds.

We also saw living Great and Cory's Shearwaters this morning, our first of the 
year.

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[nysbirds-l] Hudson Canyon

2022-06-09 Thread Trachlar

I have noticed through the years in pelagic posts from Doug Gochfeld and others 
mention of the Hudson Canyon off NY waters. While I am neither boatsman nor 
fisherman (nor pelagic birder), this story from NPR seems quite encouraging for 
protecting the canyon 

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/08/1103804802/hudson-canyon-a-giant-underwater-chasm-could-be-the-newest-national-marine-sanct

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[nysbirds-l] Hudson Canyon

2022-06-09 Thread Trachlar

I have noticed through the years in pelagic posts from Doug Gochfeld and others 
mention of the Hudson Canyon off NY waters. While I am neither boatsman nor 
fisherman (nor pelagic birder), this story from NPR seems quite encouraging for 
protecting the canyon 

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/08/1103804802/hudson-canyon-a-giant-underwater-chasm-could-be-the-newest-national-marine-sanct

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[nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - Caspian Tern, Cliff Swallows; 100+ additional spp., etc.

2022-06-09 Thread Tom Fiore
New York County (in N.Y. City), including Manhattan, Randall’s and Governors 
Islands & the waters and skies adjacent.
Sunday June 5th thru Wed., June 8th (in addition to far pre-sunrise of Sunday)

Even though migration was far-down in diversity in the past week or so, there 
were still at least 100+ species of birds for this week thus far in N.Y. County 
(taking Sat. night for a start to the week), with some ‘late’ runnning migrants 
and a few unexpected ones.   As noted in prev. reports, Yellow-crowned 
Night-Heron is a species that can potentially be seen thru the summer in and 
from N.Y. County, and one area these are sometimes noticed is near the ferries 
to-from Governors & Staten Island (2 ferry terminals near each other) at the 
southern end of Manhattan; the Yellow-crowneds here are presumed just visitants 
for certain days or times-of-day (and maybe nights), not breeding at the 
locations.  Out on Randall’s Island, any sightings of Yellow-crowned are 
potentially more-intriguing in summer & may represent birds that are at-least 
summering (if not breeding) in nearby uninhabitated isles; the species can also 
be sought, with efforts (!) by some who watch the skies in the typical passages 
of various ardeids for the mostly-east-west (& west-east) fly-way across 
Manhattan which can include places along the East River / Upper East Side area, 
northern sector of Central Park, upper West Side & sometimes n. Manhattan, and 
various points on the Hudson river shore; some of the ardeids (mainly seen are 
Great Egret and Snowy Egret in daylight) can be moving from roosts to feeding 
areas in the N.J. Meadowlands & vice-versa.  There also may be a very-outside 
chance of getting lucky with Ibis or even some less-anticipated wading-bird 
fly-by in that passage-way of the skies.

A Caspian Tern was *photographed* (M. Ross) moving past the Dyckman fields 
(part of Inwood Hill Park) along the Hudson River very late on Tues., 6/7.  The 
regular terns of this county are Common Terns, and the place to be sure of 
seeing any of those now is from Governors Island at the small colony, but that 
latter species can also be found by chance and efforts in NY Harbor 
more-generally, and sometimes up the 2 ‘rivers’ (both also estuaries) that flow 
around Manhattan: Hudson & East Rivers, and very-scarcely elsewhere for this 
county.  [ANY other tern species (besides Common) should be carefully 
documented - and if possible photo’d. and/or video’d. for added documentation.]

Black-billed Cuckoos (as well as the usually more-commonly-found Yellow-billed) 
are moving through even yet (and can potentially continue to be shifting around 
the northeast well into June, some years perhaps still advancing into the north 
on into early July) and have been noted in N.Y. County in fairly good no’s. 
this late-spring.  One excellent photo taken at Randall’s Island (C. Quinn) 
from Sunday, June 5th, even shows up the buff-tinged throat area on the adult, 
if one takes a careful look, this in the Macaulay Library archives: 
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/456952321  

The pair of Cliff Swallows have continued on at Randall’s Island as well, and 
multiple obs. have gone to see those.  N.B., I spent about 45+ minutes w/ this 
pair on Wed., June 8th and was not seeking to watch at the nest, rather I 
observed feeding-in-flight.  As expected, the other swallow spp., esp. Barn 
Swallows are far more-numerous in the same area. (Some patience may be required 
to observe the Cliff pair.)  N.B., we have no very-recent sightings of a hybrid 
Cliff-Barn Swallow (1) that had been around the west edges of the Inwood area 
along the Hudson River.

Thrushes that were still lingering (and now ‘late’ here) included at least one 
Veery, a few Swainson’s and Gray-cheeked Thrushes, with Wood Thrush (only) 
nesting in multiple (but not very many) locations in the county, mostly in 
Manhattan for the nest-attempting species. The Veery in particular was running 
extremely-late for this county.

Some warblers seen after-Sunday (June 6-8th) in the county included (above 
all): Yellow Warbler & Common Yellowthroat (both of which species are 
local-breeders and have nested multi. times in this county, the only 2 warbler 
spp. which regularly attempt nesting here), American Redstart (also a potential 
nester & which has less-commonly done so in N.Y. City; some have lingered in 
appropriate habitat in this county this spring), as well as Blackpoll Warbler 
(very few now, but still some stragglers), and the others all of which (known) 
are listed in a complete listing below.  N.B., many of the warbler spp. seen in 
N.Y. County in the past week & running-‘late’ were also being seen by 
multi-observers in other parts of this city, in particular in parts of Kings 
County (Brooklyn, N.Y.C.)

There were perhaps not much more than 100 species (up to poss. 110 or so) of 
wild and free unrestrained birds seen in the county in the period of this 
report; however by this 

[nysbirds-l] N.Y. County, NYC - Caspian Tern, Cliff Swallows; 100+ additional spp., etc.

2022-06-09 Thread Tom Fiore
New York County (in N.Y. City), including Manhattan, Randall’s and Governors 
Islands & the waters and skies adjacent.
Sunday June 5th thru Wed., June 8th (in addition to far pre-sunrise of Sunday)

Even though migration was far-down in diversity in the past week or so, there 
were still at least 100+ species of birds for this week thus far in N.Y. County 
(taking Sat. night for a start to the week), with some ‘late’ runnning migrants 
and a few unexpected ones.   As noted in prev. reports, Yellow-crowned 
Night-Heron is a species that can potentially be seen thru the summer in and 
from N.Y. County, and one area these are sometimes noticed is near the ferries 
to-from Governors & Staten Island (2 ferry terminals near each other) at the 
southern end of Manhattan; the Yellow-crowneds here are presumed just visitants 
for certain days or times-of-day (and maybe nights), not breeding at the 
locations.  Out on Randall’s Island, any sightings of Yellow-crowned are 
potentially more-intriguing in summer & may represent birds that are at-least 
summering (if not breeding) in nearby uninhabitated isles; the species can also 
be sought, with efforts (!) by some who watch the skies in the typical passages 
of various ardeids for the mostly-east-west (& west-east) fly-way across 
Manhattan which can include places along the East River / Upper East Side area, 
northern sector of Central Park, upper West Side & sometimes n. Manhattan, and 
various points on the Hudson river shore; some of the ardeids (mainly seen are 
Great Egret and Snowy Egret in daylight) can be moving from roosts to feeding 
areas in the N.J. Meadowlands & vice-versa.  There also may be a very-outside 
chance of getting lucky with Ibis or even some less-anticipated wading-bird 
fly-by in that passage-way of the skies.

A Caspian Tern was *photographed* (M. Ross) moving past the Dyckman fields 
(part of Inwood Hill Park) along the Hudson River very late on Tues., 6/7.  The 
regular terns of this county are Common Terns, and the place to be sure of 
seeing any of those now is from Governors Island at the small colony, but that 
latter species can also be found by chance and efforts in NY Harbor 
more-generally, and sometimes up the 2 ‘rivers’ (both also estuaries) that flow 
around Manhattan: Hudson & East Rivers, and very-scarcely elsewhere for this 
county.  [ANY other tern species (besides Common) should be carefully 
documented - and if possible photo’d. and/or video’d. for added documentation.]

Black-billed Cuckoos (as well as the usually more-commonly-found Yellow-billed) 
are moving through even yet (and can potentially continue to be shifting around 
the northeast well into June, some years perhaps still advancing into the north 
on into early July) and have been noted in N.Y. County in fairly good no’s. 
this late-spring.  One excellent photo taken at Randall’s Island (C. Quinn) 
from Sunday, June 5th, even shows up the buff-tinged throat area on the adult, 
if one takes a careful look, this in the Macaulay Library archives: 
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/456952321  

The pair of Cliff Swallows have continued on at Randall’s Island as well, and 
multiple obs. have gone to see those.  N.B., I spent about 45+ minutes w/ this 
pair on Wed., June 8th and was not seeking to watch at the nest, rather I 
observed feeding-in-flight.  As expected, the other swallow spp., esp. Barn 
Swallows are far more-numerous in the same area. (Some patience may be required 
to observe the Cliff pair.)  N.B., we have no very-recent sightings of a hybrid 
Cliff-Barn Swallow (1) that had been around the west edges of the Inwood area 
along the Hudson River.

Thrushes that were still lingering (and now ‘late’ here) included at least one 
Veery, a few Swainson’s and Gray-cheeked Thrushes, with Wood Thrush (only) 
nesting in multiple (but not very many) locations in the county, mostly in 
Manhattan for the nest-attempting species. The Veery in particular was running 
extremely-late for this county.

Some warblers seen after-Sunday (June 6-8th) in the county included (above 
all): Yellow Warbler & Common Yellowthroat (both of which species are 
local-breeders and have nested multi. times in this county, the only 2 warbler 
spp. which regularly attempt nesting here), American Redstart (also a potential 
nester & which has less-commonly done so in N.Y. City; some have lingered in 
appropriate habitat in this county this spring), as well as Blackpoll Warbler 
(very few now, but still some stragglers), and the others all of which (known) 
are listed in a complete listing below.  N.B., many of the warbler spp. seen in 
N.Y. County in the past week & running-‘late’ were also being seen by 
multi-observers in other parts of this city, in particular in parts of Kings 
County (Brooklyn, N.Y.C.)

There were perhaps not much more than 100 species (up to poss. 110 or so) of 
wild and free unrestrained birds seen in the county in the period of this 
report; however by this