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 the ‘Estuary’ Category
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 [...]
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?
Out With the Old: NYC Fossils!
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Bronx, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Estuary, Fish, Invertebrates, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Queens, Recreation, Staten Island, Streams, fossils, wild eyed on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Erik Baard
He walked up from below the high water mark beside the old seaplane ramp at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn and called out, “That’s it! New York City is done!”
Not comforting words from a man who measures time in mass extinctions. Paleontologist Carl Mehling is one of many native New Yorkers struggling at [...]
Heal the Seals! Turtles Too! (Riverhead Foundation Visit)
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Brooklyn, Estuary, Long Island Sound, Mammals, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Queens, Staten Island, Vertebrates, Water, Weather, Winter, volunteer, wild eyed, tagged Atlantic Ocean, cold stun, dolphins, ecology, environment, erik baard, Estuary, gowanus canal, injury, Julika Wocial, long island, marine mammal, nature calendar, nature community, naturecalendar, naturecommunity, neena dhamoon, new york, new york city, rehabilitation, rescue, riverhead foundation, Robert DiGiovanni, seal pox, seals, Sofia Theologitis, turtle, urban, volunteer on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Erik Baard
If a seal falls ill in the Gowanus Canal, a turtle catches an autumnal chill in Montauk, and a dolphin gets marsh bound in the Great South Bay, there’s a good chance they’ll end up as roommates at the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation.
As New York State’s only authorized marine mammal [...]
Dec. 13: Sealing the Deal. Who Could Resist?
Posted in Amphibians, Estuary, Long Island Sound, Mammals, New York Harbor, Parks, Recreation, Reptiles, Winter, volunteer, wild eyed, 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 | Leave a Comment »
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 work [...]
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 [...]
Nov. 9: Fossil Brooklyn Day! (Living and Dead)
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Brooklyn, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fall, Geology, Parks, Plants, Trees, wild eyed, tagged Asian, autumn, Brooklyn, carl mehling, edible, erik baard, Fall, foraging, fossils, gingko, Ginkgo, herbal medicine, locavore, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york city, paleontology, Prospect Park, recipes, steve brill, Trees, wildman on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On November 9 we will have our first social outings as a Nature Calendar community. In the morning we will hunt for fossils with paleontologist Carl Mehling as he concludes his private quest to find fossils (native or transported by glaciers) in all five boroughs. He’s scored fossils in the four other boroughs from periods [...]
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 [...]
Trapped on Jelly World?
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Bronx, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Estuary, Fish, Invertebrates, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Queens, Recreation, Staten Island, Summer, volunteer, tagged arthritis, carlos suarez, climate change, cnidaria, collagen, dianne saenz, east river, erik baard, florida state university, global warming, gotham strait, hsieh, jelly fish, jellyfish, mayor's volunteer center, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york city, oceana, peggy, rheumatoid, stephen jay gould, urban ecology, urban environment, vegan, veganism, wren longno, zooplankton on June 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
by Erik Baard
The Long Island City Community Boathouse hosted a “brunch paddle” from Anable Cove in Hunters Point down to “Dumbo Cove” in Brooklyn Bridge Park. On the way, one participant was surprised, and then reassuringly centered, by a simple encounter:
“Nature sightings started before we even left off when Dan saw a jellyfish bobbling around. [...]
