Archive for the ‘Mammals’ Category
Bloomberg Bitten by Groundhog…and His Shadow
Posted in Mammals, Spring, Staten Island, Vertebrates, Winter, tagged bitten, bloomberg, environment, erik baard, groundhog, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york city, urban ecology on February 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tour de (Heat Island) Queens
Posted in Birds, Estuary, Geology, Mammals, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Summer, Trees, Vertebrates, Weather, tagged administration, aeronautics, biking, Birds, chad seewagen, combine sewer, coratid rete, david berreby, geological survey, grass, hardscape, heat island, helen ho, livescience, maspeth, migratory, NASA, new yorker, newtown creek, oil, overflow, panorama, panting, Plants, Queens, queens museum, robin lloyd, space, street films, Summer, sweat, terminal moraine, tour de queens, transportation alternatives, Trees, U.S., urban, urban ecology, urban environment, USGS, village voice on June 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When Transportation Alternative’s absolutely wonderful Tour de Queens (enjoy the Street Films video above) rolled into Maspeth on Sunday under the blaze of a record-setting June heat wave, we were subjected to a brutal lesson in urban planning and natural history.
The Newtown Creek is infamous for being home to the largest [...]
Oh Heck, More Sharks and More Attacks.
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Fish, Mammals, Recreation, Summer, Vertebrates, Water, wild eyed, tagged erik baard, new york city, new york, urban ecology, urban environment, sharks, great white, montauk, long island, sieswerda, alzheimer's foundation, cresli, coastal research and education society of long island, pod, memory paddle, charismatic megafauna, pilot whales, dolphins, sea turtles, arthur kopelman, whale watching, shark attacks, national geographic, wikihow, protective oceanic device, ampullae of lorenzini, john mccosker, devil's teeth, susan casey, Thomas Peschak, Trey Snow, nurse shark on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now that we’ve stirred mild worries in you with entries about a Bald Eagle attack hoax and the surprising (and real) presence of wild sharks of New York City (May 23), let’s go for broke and combine the two themes: shark attacks!
To be honest, this is more of a personal concern. From August 13 through August [...]
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 Staten Island, Bronx, erik baard, Birds, new york city, nature calendar, environmental protection agency, rachel carson, DDT, silent spring, Queens, new york times, pollinators, bees, urban ecology, urban environment, west nile, malaria, mosquitos, lobsters, joel kupferman, mosquitoes, Emperor Titus, Babylonian Talmud, temple, dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, EPA, Paul Hermann Müller, yellow fever, elephantiasis, dengue fever, Rift Valley fever, encephalitis, and Ross River fever, village voice, bee watchers, antigua sun, vitamin, b1 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 one [...]
