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- Owl Prowl
At Prosser Pines
Tomorrow, January 9 at 7:00pm - The Ecology of Northern Saw Wh...
Cold Spring Harbor Library
Wednesday, January 13 at 7:00pm - River Otters of Long Island, P...
Cold Spring Harbor Library and loca...
Saturday, January 16 at 10:30am - Birds and Birding
The Basics and Beyond
Thursday, February 25 at 6:30pm
Huntington Audubon Society Nocturnal Adventure at Prosser Pines County Nature Preserve, Yaphank Saturday January 9th 7-9!!! Join us as we explore Prosser Pines in the dark, call for owls and see what we shall see. Last time at this preserve we had both screech and great horned owls!!! Wear sturdy shoes since we'll be hiking off-trail in the dar...k. See events page for details and lets hope the cold doesn't cancel!
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Today, Stella, Vinny, Brendan, and I set out on a (coined by Stella) TBB, or Targeted Birding Blitz. We had planned to see many of the notable species recently spotted on Long Island, among them Black Guillemot, Snowy Owl, Eurasian Wigeon, Barrow’s Goldeneye, and Greater White-fronted Goose. ...
On Saturday, December 20th I participated on the Northern Nassau County Christmas Bird Count. THe circle covers Northern Nassau County from Port Washington to Lloyd's Neck, south to Jericho and all points north. I counted on the Oyster Bay Cove team with Bill Reeves, this being his 65...
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After hearing about all sorts of interesting birds being reported in southern New York City, I was fortunate enough to go on a daytrip to see whatever was out there. By midmorning we arrived along the Gravesend Bay promenade in Brooklyn (pictured above, at sunset). A Mew Gull of European origins ...
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Huntington Audubon Society Another article about the Audubon Christmas Bird Count!
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The birdwatchers were out just after dawn Tuesday whipping their binoculars from wren to raptor on the coastal bluffs, in the woods and on the beaches of San Francisco.
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Eric Addinall, left, and Chris Schuster record bird sightings in Brooklyn, N.Y., one of 2,000 locales across the Americas surveyed in the National Audubon Society's annual Christmas Bird Count. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times / December 19, 2009)
Huntington Audubon Society
Did you know that birds can detect magnetic fields or that a Blue Jay’s feather is not really blue? Or that birds breathe differently than people and that some birds can catch prey in complete darkness? Do you want to know why some birds eat clay? Want to know effective steps you can take to help birds? If these quest...ions pique your curiosity and you want to deepen your understanding and appreciation of birds, then we encourage you to participate in this three-part monthly series of workshops given by John Turner, Conservation Chair of Huntington-Oyster Bay Audubon.
After the first workshop, a field trip to view winter waterfowl will be held to apply your newly polished bird identification skills!
Session 1:
What it is to be a Bird and What Bird is That? (Introduction and Field Identification) Bird Bodies and Minds – An overview of Bird Senses, Anatomy, and Intelligence.
Session 2:
Birds on the Wing – The Mechanics of Flight, Elements of Navigation and Migration. Nests, Eggs, and Young – The Early Life of a Bird.
Session 3:
Food and Feeding – An overview of the types of food birds eat, the ways in which they feed, and ecological implications of feeding.
Birds for the Next generation – Conserving Birds Today and Through the Years.
Place: Cold Spring Harbor Library
Dates: Thursdays, February 25, March 25, and April 29
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Price: $20 per session or $50 for the series *
Field trip date: February 27th at 10:00 AM, location to be announced at first workshop
To register: please call 516-456-6791. Make out your check to Huntington Audubon and send it to
Huntington-Oyster Bay Audubon, PO Box 735, Huntington, NY 11743.
About the instructor: John Turner is an adjunct professor of Ornithology in the Natural Sciences Department at SUNY-Stony Brook Southampton College and is an interpretive specialist for Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County. He is the Director of the Division of Environmental Protection for the Town of Brookhaven. Previously, he served as Director of Conservation Programs for the Long Island Chapters of The Nature Conservancy and worked for Defenders of Wildlife. John is a co-founder of the Long Island Pine Barrens Society and served on its board for 26 years. He is the author of two books: "Exploring the Other Island: A Seasonal Nature Guide to Long Island" and a children's book on the water cycle entitled "Waylon's Wandering Waterdrop". He currently serves as Conservation Chair of the Huntington-Oyster Bay Audubon Society and is writing the second edition of “Exploring the Other Island”.
Time:6:30PM Thursday, February 25th
Location:The Basics and Beyond
This morning I took a trip to see if I could spot the Eurasion Wigeon in Setauket. I got there and scoped almost all of the bay without luck. Many American Wigeon were out and about though. Then as I was leaving I passed a small cove and in it fed a flock of about forty American Wigeon and amongs...
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The Huntington-Oyster Bay Audubon Youth Outreach Committee would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a healthy and happy New Year!!!!Stella, Brendan, Brent and Vinny
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Huntington Audubon Society wishes all of our loyal supporters, members and Facebook fans the happiest of holidays and best wishes for a wonderful new year!!!!
The first time the word “birding” was used (in a work of William Shakespeare), it referred to the act of bird hunting. At some point during the following four hundred years it shed its old definition and acquired a new one: bring binoculars instead of a retriever.I don’t know when this switch occ...
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by Brendan Fogarty The first time the word “birding” was used (in a work of William Shakespeare), it referred to the act of bird hunting. At some point during the following four hundred years it shed its old definition and acquired a new one: bring binoculars instead of a retriever. I...
Huntington Audubon Society Another good one! Coots are no dummies!
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ScienceDaily (Dec. 17, 2009) The American coot is a drab, seemingly unremarkable marsh bird common throughout North America. But its reproductive life is full of deception and violence.
Huntington Audubon Society But sometimes, we get good news...the first footage of the extremely rare Cross River Gorilla!
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The world’s rarest—and most camera shy—great ape has finally been captured on professional video. A crew from the Hamburg-based NDR Naturfilm managed to film the elusive Cross River gorilla on a forested mountainside in Cameroon earlier this year. ...
