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The three Great Horned owlets in the FIRST Brooklyn nest are as big as their mother nowadays. It is getting very crowded over there. We hope none of the chicks will fall down.
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Apparently, the Spotted Lanternfly has a natura predator and it is a true New Yorker: The Northern Cardinal. Video by Gus Keri
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Initially one appeared, Then two, and finally three. Two were having sibling squabbles and one even pooped on camera. Soon, the mother has to get out and find another place. Great Horned Owl nest in Brooklyn. Place is kept private for protection.
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Our third Harbor Seal in Brooklyn this month and it was in the Mill Basin, very close to the north shore of Floyd Bennett Field (where the Pacific Loon is). Video by Gus Keri.
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Bald Eagles were seen building a nest on Ruffle Bar Island (Brooklyn) 3 days ago. Today, one was perched near a huge nest while another was roaming the field. If they succeed, it would be Brooklyn's first Bald Eagle nest in more than a century as far as we know. Video by Gus Keri
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Tonight's continuing Snowy Owl on Coney Island's Beach.
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Mama Great Horned Owl feeding her chick somewhere in Brooklyn. It looks like there is only one owlet so far. Location will be kept private.
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The abandoned Mallard duckling featured in yesterday's video was rescued this morning and is headed to the
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Drama at Prospect Lake today. A female Mallard decided to abandon her last surviving chick to elope with a male Mallard. The adult couple were harassed by a group of male Mallard before escaping and disappearing completely. Video by Gus Keri.
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Wood Duck steals a bagel from Canada Geese and runs with it, and other waterfowl hijinks from Prospect Park Lake today 🎥: Gus Keri
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Brooklyn's first SNOWY OWL of the season, at Floyd Bennett Field today near Aviator Center, giving amazing views 📷 Gus Keri
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PAINTED REDSTART, an ultra-rare southwestern vagrant with no prior eBird records in the New York City area, now being seen by Ecology Village in Floyd Bennett Field!
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Today, there were only two Great Horned Owlets at the FIRST Brooklyn nest without an adult. Rescuer advised that the third one most likely fledged. After extensive search, the third owlet was found some 1000 feet away from the nest, accompanied by an adult (probably the mother).
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To the best of our knowledge this is the first nesting birds of Brooklyn this season. The female Great Horned Owl sitting in the nest while the male is guarding the nest. The exact location will not be disclosed.
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This Raven was seen today on the streets of Bay Ridge unable to fly, sneezing, and occasionally falling down while walking. High suspicion of Avian Flu. It is now in the care of
@wildbirdfund
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Indigo Bunting eats seeds at Prospect Park today 🎥: Gus Keri
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Harbor Seals swimming off of Coney Island today. 📽: Gus Keri
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A close look at today's HENSLOW'S SPARROW, an all-time first for Green-Wood Cemetery and the first for Brooklyn in the last 58 years. 📽: Gus Keri
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A Snowy Owl glows blue in the lights of the Parachute Jump on Coney Island this evening. 📷: Gus Keri
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The Bald Eagle at Prospect Lake favors two perches, one on the north shore near the Well House and the other on the south shore at the Hammerhead, and it keeps flying between the two perches attempting to catch any bird to eat.
Video by Gus Keri showing two failed attempts.
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Another sleepy day 😴 for a Northern Saw-whet Owl in Prospect Park.
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Two American Oystercatcher chicks have hatched at Dead Horse Point, and the remaining egg likely will hatch tomorrow. 📽: Gus Keri
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Somewhere in Brooklyn, a mother Great Horned Owl taking care of its chick. We can't confirm the presence of another chick yet.
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American Woodcock uses its body weight to shake the ground underneath it to stimulate earthworms into motion and then pick them up with its especially long bill. At Bryant Park in Manhattan today. Video by Gus Keri.
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The Great Horned Owls family today. They are all awake and active except the smallest owlet which is dozing off. We hope it is doing well and eating enough to thrive. We hate to lose any of these owlets.
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Blue Grosbeak at Greenwood Cemetery today. Video by Gus Keri.
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The Bald Eagle was all over the place in Prospect Park today. It perched initially over the Hammerhead, then over the Carribean Quarter and at the end over the Smorgasburg on the top of the Breeze Hill. Video by Gus Keri.
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AMERICAN WOODCOCK dancing in Green-Wood Cemetery yesterday
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Scarlet Tanager at Prospect Park today. Video by Gus keri.
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PROTHONOTARY WARBLER at Lullwater today in Prospect Park 🎥: Gus Keri
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The Bald Eagle that visits Prospect Park regularly nowadays was hunting at sunset today. Initially, it was standing on a log looking for a fish and then flew and scared all the birds (listen to the geese). Could it be one of the couple nesting in Jamaica Bay? Video by Gus Keri
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Common Grackle is comically inept at building a nest and eventually just gives up, at Prospect Park today 🎥: Gus Keri
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Today's THICK-BILLED MURRE paddling north of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, becoming only the second all-time eBird record of this species in the Upper Bay of New York Harbor. 📹 Gus Keri
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Today's immature Bald Eagle perching at Green-Wood Cemetery's Crescent Water, an amazing sight. 📽: Gus Keri
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The ultra-rare Neotropic Cormorant at Wolfe's Pond Park in Staten Island today. It is the first ever record for NYC. Video by Gus Keri.
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Amazing success story! We reported before on two Oystercatcher nests at Plumb Beach. Today, third nest no one knew about produced two chicks and still not even June. Three nests at the same time in this unforgiving location with off-leash dogs is beyond belief. Video by Gus Keri.
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The SECOND Great Horned Owl nest in Brooklyn didn't show any chicks, but the way the mother moves inside the nest suggests the presence of small owlets that could not be seen yet. Check the second part of this video.
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The ultra-rare Yellow-headed Blackbird at Sunset Cove Park today. Video by Gus Keri.
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Wood Duck hen with 13 ducklings today at Prospect Park's Lullwater, perhaps the most ever for the park. 🎥: Gus Keri
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Today's Prospect Park AMERICAN BITTERN lunched on a colorful and tasty Palm Warbler, by Gus Keri
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Two Great Horned Owlets are still in the FIRST Brooklyn nest. The smallest one is now as big as its sibling. Soon, both will fledge and follow their third sibling and parents to the trees.
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INDIGO BUNTING male today at Owl's Head Park. 🎥: Gus Keri
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In almost 2 centuries, European Goldfinches have failed to establish themselves in NYC, until 2015 when a small group of escapees (or released), first seen in Bush Terminal Piers Park, managed to do so and now they are residents of Prospect Park all year round. Video by Gus Keri
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American Kestrel devouring a snake at Shirley Chisholm State Park today. Video by Gus Keri
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Yellow-crowned Night-Heron expands its wings
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This Harbor Seal came within 100 meters of Calvert Vaux Park today.
🎥: Gus Keri
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In the shadow of Verrazzano Bridge, The Swainson's Hawk was enjoying downtown Manhattan skyline. It kept flying around, stretching, pooping and preening, not interested in any of the many pigeons in the area, until it suddenly scooped down and caught a rat. Video by Gus Keri
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Razorbill like you have never seen it before. Bathing, preening, climbing onto a rock, Doing God only knows what with the sea plants, drying up and eventually sitting down and resting. Near Bay Ridge promenade, at the parking lot north of Verrazzano Bridge. Video by Gus Keri.
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Close-up of the early Indigo Bunting today at Sylvan Water in Green-Wood Cemetery 🎥: Gus Keri
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Sometimes a genetic defect can create a more beautiful bird, like this leucistic Savannah Sparrow at Owl's Head Park today. 🎥: Gus Keri
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6 days ago, we reported on the SECOND Great Horned Owl nest in Brooklyn when the mother's behavior was suggestive of the presence of chicks. Today, we can see a white fluffy thing in the nest, still not able to see the whole chick. Check in front of the mother in slow motion too.
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The ultra-rare Curlew Sandpiper made a an appearance again today at the Jones Beach Coast Guard Station. Video by Gus Keri.
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Some of the six AMERICAN WOODCOCKS seen today in Green-Wood Cemetery 🎥: Gus Keri
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Ruddy Duck drake in breeding plumage today at Prospect Park shows his fine colors 🎥: Gus Keri
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European Goldfinch had been seen sporadically in NYC until July 2015 when suddenly, 4 showed up in Bush Terminal, all banded. (Escapees/released?). Since then, they spread and multiplied all over Brooklyn. Last week, 18 seen together in Prospect Park. Video from today by Gus Keri
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This fledgling American Kestrel, rescued by others, was promptly reunited with its parents this evening at Columbia Waterfront thanks to 📷: velostream on Instagram.
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Watch where you step -- Brooklyn beaches have nesting American Oystercatchers, like this one that already has laid eggs 🎥: Gus Keri
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Raccoon climbing a tree to reach its nest where its partner is sitting inside, and both are having some kind of conversation at the entrance. At Prospect Park. Video by Gus Keri.
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It is a rare thing to see a Harbor Seal in the waters of NYC, but it is unheard of it to see the seal displaying its food for all to see. Even the Gulls got excited. At Gravesend Bay as seen from Coney Island Creek Park Beach today. Video by Gus Keri.
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Celebrate the third anniversary of the Prospect Park PAINTED BUNTING, a ultra-rare, colorful vagrant, with a viewing of the original first-day video, from 29 Nov 2015, by 📷Gus Keri
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Somewhere in Brooklyn, a male Great Horned Owl is standing as a guard just few branches below its nest.
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This gorgeous looking bird will brighten up any gloomy day. Northern Red Bishop at Floyd Bennett Field today. Video by Gus Keri.
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The most beautiful goose in NYC is back at Canarsie Pier today. It is a hybrid of a Snow Goose and a Brant. Will we ever see an offspring of such beauty? Video by Gus Keri.
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This Red Siskin was seen today at a Brooklyn feeder. It is banded and of captive origin, an endangered species native to South America whose breeding and ownership are regulated in the US. 📽: Gus Keri
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A Peregrine Falcon in the puddles of Floyd Bennett Field. 🎥: Gus Keri
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Prothonotary Warbler getting closer to where people walk. This was within few feet of the path at Prospect Park today. Video by Gus Keri.
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Evening Grosbeak at Prospect Park today. Video by Gus Keri.
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Sometimes we are Brooklyn Reptile Alert
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Buffleheads are back! This hen was on the Prospect Park Lake today. 🎥: Gus Keri
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Nesting Great Horned Owl in Brooklyn. It is a bit earlier than usual. The weather might have something to do with it. Location will be kept private to protect the nest. We will post updates every once in a while.
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Young PIPING PLOVER at Plumb Beach yesterday. 📽: Gus Keri
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The season's first American Oystercatchers returned to Plumb Beach today 🎥: Gus Keri
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Brooklyn's first arriving Eastern Phoebe of the year at Owl's Head Park, watching the bugs fly by 🎥: Gus Keri
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Up close and personal with an American Kestrel checking an area known for sparrows' activities at Greenwood Cemetery today. Video BY Gus Keri.
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Drama at Prospect Lake today. A female Mallard decided to abandon her last surviving chick to elope with a male Mallard. The adult couple were harassed by a group of male Mallard before escaping and disappearing completely. Video by Gus Keri.
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Scarlet Tanager male feeding on oak catkins at Green-Wood Cemetery today 📽: Gus Keri
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American Oystercatcher chicks hunker down and stay motionless after hearing alarm calls from a parent, an effective defensive strategy as they blend in with detritus on the beach, at Dead Horse Point today. 🎥: Gus Keri
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Close-up of today's MARBLED GODWIT, a rare and distinctive visitor to Brooklyn, at Plumb Beach📽: Gus Keri
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this is what happens when people throw their garbage in the lake at Prospect Park. The rescuing was taking place while the video being shot today. Notice that the rescuer was hiding the net because the duck will run away if it sees the net. Video by Gus Keri.
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The Mute Swan mating ritual on Prospect Park Lake, with music 🎥: Gus Keri
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The American Oystercatcher family with the only surviving chick are still here at Plumb Beach today. They have not migrated yet. The juvenile (the one with the dark color on the tip of the bill) is 5 months old now. Video by Gus Keri.
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Observers tonight agree that Coney Island had TWO Snowy Owls tonight: a male that showed early, perching on the rides then flying west, and a continuing female that hunts over the beach!
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A close look at a Harbor Seal off of Plumb Beach today. 🎥:Gus Keri
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A little Great Horned Owlet is peeking from the nest in Brooklyn.
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The WILSON'S SNIPE of Green-Wood Cemetery remained in clear view the entire day at Crescent Water 🎥: Gus Keri
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It's called Northern Red Bishop, but some call it Orange Bishop which makes more sense. At Floyd Bennett Field today. Video by Gus Keri
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The American Bittern in Green-Wood Cemetery today by Sylvan Water. 🎥: Gus Keri
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Thanks to the many birders and photographers, who visited Prospect Park to see this beautiful Northern Saw-whet Owl, for respecting its need for good day rest, in order to be able to have successful hunting nights. The owl continues to thrive. Video by Gus Keri from two weeks ago
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This is not a bird, but it is a magical scene in the NYC water that is very rare. A humongous shoal of fish swimming within few feet of Canarsie Pier. It speaks highly of the cleanness of the water in Jamaica Bay. Video by Gus Keri.
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Two of the Dead Horse Point American Oystercatcher eggs we showed you two weeks ago hatched, and the chicks survived last week's storm. Here they are walking on the beach and then taking refuge under a parent. 🎥: Gus Keri
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The LEAST BITTERN climbed a tree in Prospect Park today 📽: Gus Keri
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Close-up of a Chipping Sparrow, a recent arrival at Green-Wood Cemetery today 🎥: Gus Keri
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Mama Wood Duck teaching her babies how to preen at Prospect Park today. Video by Gus Keri.
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Top twelve rare birds of New York City 2021 📽: Gus Keri
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How often do you see American Bittern scratching and preening itself. And look at those feet. At Prospect Park today. Video by Gus Keri.
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PIPING PLOVER, the cutest shorebird, at Plumb Beach today 📽: Gus Keri
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