To all those sitting on the fence about heading out to Riverhead, Long Island on a Newtown Pippin and beach plum quest (see below), Nature Calendar throws down a challenge: Can you resist this? Our trip will now include a behind-the-scenes tour of the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation. You’ll learn about their [...]
Archive for the ‘Amphibians’ Category
Dec. 13: Sealing the Deal. Who Could Resist?
Posted in Amphibians, Estuary, Long Island Sound, Mammals, New York Harbor, Parks, Recreation, Reptiles, volunteer, wild eyed, Winter, tagged beach plums, erik baard, long island, Long Island Sound, Mammals, marine, nature calendar, naturecalendar, newtown pippins, ocean, otters, riverhead foundation, seals, turtles on December 9, 2008 |
Habana Happy Hour Tonight! Green Teachers, Green Grub!
Posted in Amphibians, Astronomy, Birds, Brooklyn, clouds, Edible Plants, Fall, Flowers, Fresh Water, Fungi, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Mammals, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Recreation, Reptiles, Snakes, Streams, Trees, Vertebrates, volunteer, Water, tagged audubon center, Birds, children, education, environment, forests, habana outpost, meadow, nature calendar, nyc audubon, prospect park alliance, soil, teachers, urban ecology, Winter, winter warm up on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hi All! NYC’s greenest restaurant, Habana Outpost, is hosting a “Winter Warm Up” talk and happy hour. Learn about Prospect Park and the Audubon Center while mixing with fun and friendly teachers. Oh yeah, and enjoy Habana Outpost’s delicious food, party atmosphere, and ecological model before it shuts on Oct 31! More info through this [...]
Movin’ On Up, and That’s Very Bad
Posted in Amphibians, Atlantic Ocean, Bronx, Brooklyn, Estuary, Fresh Water, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Ponds, Queens, Reptiles, Snakes, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Uncategorized, Vertebrates, Water, Weather, wild eyed, tagged american museum of natural history, amnh, Amphibians, climate change, conservancy, ellen pehek, erik baard, Estuary, extinction, frogs, global change biology, global warming, grass, habitat, herpetology, marsh, marshgrass, natural resources group, new york city, parks and recreation, red back, Reptiles, salamanders, Sarah Goodyear, urban ecology, urban environment, wetlands, wildmetro on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Erik Baard Global warming is forcing the upward migration of reptiles and amphibians to cooler altitudes, according to an American Museum of Natural History researcher. While much has rightfully been made of the world’s visibly melting alpine glaciers, a desperate and quiet migration has been occurring, with creatures scaling slopes to escape [...]
WildWire: June 5-June 11
Posted in Amphibians, Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, butterflies, Crustaceans, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Trees, Vertebrates, Water, wild eyed, tagged alley pond park, alliance, american museum of natural history, amnh, battery park city, biking, Birds, blooming, blue heron park, Bronx, bronx river, Brooklyn, canoe, canoeing, Central Park, Central Park Conservancy, department of parks and recreation, Downtown Boathouse, erik baard, Estuary, Flowers, forest park, free, gantry plaza state park, garden, greenbelt, hudson river, kayak, kayaking, lic community boathouse, long island city, magical garden, Manhattan, marine park, national trails day, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new jersey, new york, new york city, portside new york, Queens, queens west, red hook boaters, ring, riverdale park, riverside, Rocking the Boat, Staten Island, time's up!, tour de queens, trail conference, urban ecology, urban environment, urban park rangers, valentino park, van cortlandt park, volunteer, volunteering, wave hill, wildman steve brill on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What a weekend and week ahead New York City’s natural world and its stewards offers you! We have a barrel of FREE events, and a couple of cheap ones (as you know, paid events are the great exception on WildWire) that support green allies and cover basic costs. Highlights include the Tour [...]
Save the Mosquitoes!
Posted in Amphibians, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Fish, Fresh Water, Gardens, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Mammals, Manhattan, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Reptiles, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Vertebrates, Water, wild eyed, tagged and Ross River fever, antigua sun, b1, Babylonian Talmud, bee watchers, bees, Birds, Bronx, DDT, dengue fever, dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, elephantiasis, Emperor Titus, encephalitis, environmental protection agency, EPA, erik baard, joel kupferman, lobsters, malaria, mosquitoes, mosquitos, nature calendar, new york city, new york times, Paul Hermann Müller, pollinators, Queens, rachel carson, Rift Valley fever, silent spring, Staten Island, temple, urban ecology, urban environment, village voice, vitamin, west nile, yellow fever on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Erik Baard Last night I saw my first mosquito of the season, flying into my bedroom, hot on my carbon dioxide trail. I lost track of it, but minutes later I heard the soft buzz of menace in my ear. One must never underestimate the dangers of mosquitoes. Emperor Titus was driven made by [...]
WildWire: May 28-June 4
Posted in Amphibians, Astronomy, Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, butterflies, Crustaceans, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Fungi, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Long Island Sound, Mammals, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Reptiles, Snakes, Spring, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Trees, Uncategorized, Vertebrates, Water, tagged american museum of natural history, Astronomy, audubon, bicycling, biking, birding, Birds, blue heron park, bronx river, Brooklyn, butterflies, canoe, canoeing, Central Park, conference house, cuny, cycling, department of parks and recreation, Downtown Boathouse, east river, erik baard, Fish, fort tryon park, fresh kills, gardening, governors island, hayden planetarium, hiking, inwood hill park, kayaking, lic community boathouse, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, manhattanhenge, marine park, naturalist, nature center, neil degrasse tyson, new york city, orchard beach, paddling, Pelham Bay Park, Prospect Park, Queens, safewalk, salt marsh, seining, Staten Island, time's up!, urban ecology, urban environment, urban park rangers, van cortlandt park, walking, wildflowers on May 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Editor’s note: Please accept my apologies that some editing and link work must be redone due to a wifi interruption and WordPress/Word glitch. It will be done tonight, but for now you can see the events and most of the needed information. ALERT! Break out the “sacrificial” champagne. It’s time for Manhattanhenge! [...]
Ridgewood Reservoir Under Threat
Posted in Amphibians, Birds, butterflies, Edible Plants, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Geology, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Mammals, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Trees, Uncategorized, wild eyed, tagged anthony como, benzo(a)pyrene, betsy gotbaum, biking, Birds, charles ober, citybirder, cuny, cycling, department of environmental conservation, department of health and mental hygiene, department of parks and recreation, district 30, elizabeth crowley, erik baard, habitat, hiking, historic districts council, indigenous, junfeng zhang, natural resources defense council, nature calendar, new york city, new york environmental law project, nyc, nyc audubon, Plants, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Queens, Recreation, ridgewood reservoir, rob jett, rowing, rutgers, special election, sports, steve nanz, terminal morain, tom ognibene, Trees, urban ecology, urban environment, william crain, xeriscaping, yellow warbler on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The graveyard’s a fine and verdant place, But none, I think, do there play ball or race. …with apologies to Andrew Marvell by Erik Baard City Council District 30 in western Queens boasts some of the widest swaths of green in New York City, but much of [...]
Wild Eyed: Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Posted in Amphibians, Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Crustaceans, Estuary, Fish, Insects, Invertebrates, New York Harbor, Parks, Queens, Spring, Summer, Uncategorized, Water, wild eyed, tagged Amphibians, black-crowned night heron, con ed, con edison, Crustaceans, erik baard, fedex, heron, Insects, new york city department of parks and recreation, new york water taxi, nyc auduban, Queens, steinway creek, ted gruber, wild eyed, yellow-crowned night heron on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Erik Baard I think anything with the word “night” in its name benefits from a bit of mystery by association. As if Yellow-crowned Night Herons needed the help. With gorgeous plumage and reliably picturesque harbor backdrops, these birds are a favorite of NYC Auduban/New York Water Taxi tours and individual birders. [...]
Wild Eyed: Egret Takes Flight over English Kills
Posted in Amphibians, Birds, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Estuary, Fish, Invertebrates, New York Harbor, Queens, Staten Island, tagged anable basin, arthur kill, audubon society, bernie ente, Birds, Crustaceans, east river, english kills, erik baard, Estuary, fresh kills, great egret, hell gate, inlet, marsh grasses, mill rock, newtown creek, wetlands on May 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
by Erik Baard A skeptic might say that a naturalist hoping for the Great Egret to visit the Newtown Creek is a bit like Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin. Happily, the skeptic would be wrong. This morning, Bernie Ente snapped this quick shot of one above the English Kill (one of the most polluted [...]
