After millions of years in the air, birds might be a bit insulted that they’re blamed for downing planes when one of these giant metal leviathans hurtles into their flock. I mean, imagine a whale crash landing into your bicycle parade and then complaining of “bike strikes.”
Still, many people have asked for links to learn [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Bird Strikes…Wait, what? Isn’t that a Plane Strike?
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Estuary, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Queens, tagged airport, audubon, Birds, birdstrike, calendar, cornell, ecology, environment, erik baard, faa, janis krums, nature, naturecalendar, nyc, schiffner, urban on January 15, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Cute Overload: Cats and Rabbits in Habitat Preserves
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Estuary, Mammals, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Queens, Staten Island, Vertebrates, tagged airport, australia, Birds, cats, conservation, cute overload, cuteoverload, ecology, environment, erik baard, feral, habitat, jfk, kennedy, nature, nature calendar, naturecalendar, neighborhoodcats, nesting, pets, rabbits, urban on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Erik Baard
Australia is learning that it’s traded one form of “cute overload” for another, and there might be lessons for New York City.
As reported in this article, Australia attacked its cat overpopulation problem in the interest of preserving its indigenous bird species. The trouble is, without the feline predators around, a rabbit population explosion [...]
Biggest Full Moon of ‘09 Tonight!
Posted in Astronomy, Weather, Winter, tagged american museum of natural history, amnh, erik baard, full moon, hayden planterarium, moon, nature calendar, naturecalendar, perigee, tyson, urban astronomy, urban ecology, urban environment, village voice on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Erik Baard
What a Wolf Moon this will be! Tonight will be the biggest full moon of 2009, and the glory it borrows from the sun will be reflected from every snowy rooftop, branch, and field…if the clouds break.
The moon increases in apparent size for two reasons. Routinely we observe an apparent swelling in the moonrise. Because of a [...]
Much of the East River Book Online for Free!
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Bronx, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fish, Geology, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Queens, Recreation, Vertebrates, Water, fossils, tagged arcardia, bluefish, cordgrass, east river, erik baard, gotham strait, nature, nature calendar, new york city, nyc, richard melnick, spartina, striped bass, thomas jackson, urban ecologu, urban ecology on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A good chunk of the East River book is now online for free! Get some hot cocoa and enjoy?
A New Name for the East River?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Gotham Gazette published this essay proposing a new name for the East River, which runs through the central of NYC and is not a river.
