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 [...]
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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 [...]
Eastern White Pine, the “Great Tree of Peace”
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Edible Plants, Fungi, Insects, Invertebrates, Mammals, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Queens, Trees, Vertebrates, Winter, volunteer, tagged broad arrow, conifer, eastern white pine, ecology, environment, erik baard, fibonacci, fish and wildlife service, forest, friends of gateway, greater astoria historical society, haiku, haudenosaunee, inwood, iroquois, lic community boathouse, Million Trees NYC, native american, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york city, parks and recreation, pelham, pilgrim, thoreau, tree planting, Trees, urban, white pine on December 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
by Erik Baard
Far inland, a wind
lifts fine snow from ancient pines.
Shimmers like sea spray.
I wrote that haiku twenty years ago intending to show the sensual commonality of contrasting locales, pointing toward our shared experiences across superficial cultural divides. Only today, while poking around data piles about pines in this tanenbaum time of year, did I [...]
Dec. 13: Newtown Pippin Apple and Beach Plum Outing!
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Edible Plants, Estuary, Flowers, Gardens, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Staten Island, Summer, Trees, butterflies, volunteer, wild eyed, tagged apple, beach plum, big apple, briermere farm, Bronx, Brooklyn, dumbo, edible, erik baard, fruit, hunters point, indigenous, long island city, Manhattan, native, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york city, newtown creek, newtown pippin, nyc, Parks, pelham bay, plum, Queens, riverhead, staten, stuyvesant cove, urban ecology, urban environment on December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Imagine the sandy shores of Dumbo, Stuyvesant Cove, Hunters Point, South Beach, and Pelham Bay resplendent with bushes full of white blossoms that grow into delicious fruits akin to fat cherries as summer passes. Or seeing trees at City Hall, or in a school playground just inland from the Newtown Creek, heavy with sublimely [...]
Habana Happy Hour Tonight! Green Teachers, Green Grub!
Posted in Amphibians, Astronomy, Birds, Brooklyn, Edible Plants, Fall, Flowers, Fresh Water, Fungi, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Mammals, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Recreation, Reptiles, Snakes, Streams, Trees, Vertebrates, Water, clouds, volunteer, 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 link:
http://habanaworks.org/
And read [...]
Eco-Arts, Free Admission Party Tonight (10/03)!
Posted in Birds, Brooklyn, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fall, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Grasses, Insects, Plants, Recreation, Trees, Vertebrates, Water, volunteer, tagged art, Atom Cianfarani, beer, Birds, Brooklyn, dave nardone, erik baard, Gardens, gowanus, habitat, kelso, museum of modern art, nature calendar, naturecalendar.com, new york city, rain, rainwater, urban ecology, Water on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
TONIGHT: Free admission to a party of environmentalists and art lovers!
Beer by Kelso of Brooklyn!
DJ Dave “Roosting Box” Nardone!
What’s all the fuss about?
Well, sometimes hardened urbanites think that it would take green alchemy to create habitat on our mean streets. The good folks at the Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn (119 8th Street, between 2nd [...]
Oh, Tree of Heaven! Oh, Ghetto Palm!
Posted in Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Flowers, Manhattan, Parks, Plants, Queens, Recreation, Staten Island, Summer, Trees, volunteer, tagged Ailanthus, ambonese, andrew blechman, conference house, edible, erik baard, folk medicine, forest, forestry, ghetoo palm, herbal, invasive, nature calendar, new york, new york city, pigeon, plant, poverty tree, Queens, species, Staten Island, sunnyside, tree of heaven, Trees, urban ecology, urban environment, volunteer, wildman steven brill on July 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
by Erik Baard
As I walked past the Sunnyside Railyards yesterday I spotted a tree with a crown that each year is generously laden with green-gold pods. It’s rising up from beside the tracks, reaching eye level for strollers on the south side of the overpass. It occurred to me that while I’ve seen this kind [...]
Pigeon Netter Netted!
Posted in Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Parks, Queens, Recreation, Staten Island, Vertebrates, volunteer, wild eyed, tagged andrew blechman, department of environmental conservation, doe fund, erik baard, extinction, in defense of animals, martha, nature calendar, new york, new york bird club, new york city, new york city pigeon rescue central, passenger, pigeon, pigeon day, rock dove, shooting, tony avella, uft, united federation of teachers, urban ecology, urban environment on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Erik Baard
One of the stupider “sports” people have come up with is pigeon shooting, where the birds are released from boxes into the line of yahoos’ ready fire. In a 1902 debate over a bill banning the sport from New York, a state senator compared that lack of humanity and sportsman-like behavior to shutting a [...]
WildWire: June 21-25
Posted in Astronomy, Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Long Island Sound, Mammals, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Reptiles, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Trees, Water, butterflies, volunteer, wildwire, tagged audubon, bike new tork, biking, blue heron park, Bronx, bronx river alliance, Brooklyn, butterflies, canoe, canoeing, Central Park, clearwater festival, conservancy, Downtown Boathouse, east river, edible, erik baard, foraging, fort tryon, gowanus, hiking, hudson river, inwood, just foods, kayaking, lic, long island city, Manhattan, marine park, mike feller, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york restoration, nyrp, orchard beach, peter tagatac, Prospect Park, Queens, queens botanical, recycle-a-bicycle, Rocking the Boat, salt marsh, sebago, socrates sculpture park, Staten Island, sustainable south bronx, topofthelawn, totten, urban park rangers, van cortlandt, walking, wave hill, wildflowers, wildman steve brill, wildwire on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Happy Solstice! Summer is here, and life is booming. Make sure you head down to Jamaica Bay to see cacti, horseshoe crabs, and diamondback terrapin turtles! Or get lost in a world of wildflowers and butterflies in Pelham Bay Park. As for the loveliness above…never again will you speak ill of Staten Island without feeling [...]
