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/ Yellow-bellied sapsucker Have you seen any Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers recently? This is a good question for separating birders from non-birders. Non-birders would laugh, certain that this absurd name is made up - it sounds like a name invented by a tv writer to make fun of birdwatchers, as they do. Birders would quickly answer yes or no, because they know this is a real bird, an attractive but uncommon woodpecker. Why am I telling you this? Because it’s time to talk about silly, fun, and just plain annoying bird names. Maybe the most frustrating category of bird names, especially for beginners, is “birds named for invisible anatomical features”. A classic local example is the Ring-necked Duck – I don’t think I’ve ever seen the alleged “ring”- and most people who’ve seen one would prefer to ring the neck of whoever named them. Another is the Red-bellied woodpecker, with it’s flaming red crown and nape but barely visible, sometimes there in good ligh ....
I IF I CAN BE CALLED A BIRD-WATCHER, my spark was a pair of burrowing owls, painted on the narrow storefront gate of a shuttered real estate business on 145th Street in Harlem that brokers single-room occupancy housing for two hundred dollars a week. I spotted them after ice-skating with one of my kids at the rink in the shadow of towering smokestacks at Riverbank State Park. The park is a concession to the community for the massive wastewater sewage plant hidden beneath it. It was midway through the Trump years: January, but not cold like Januaries when I was little, not cold enough to see your breath. It wasn’t snowing, and it wasn’t going to snow. The owls watched me quizzically with their heads cocked, their long skinny legs perched on the colored bands of a psychedelic rainbow that seemed to lead off that gray street into another, more magical realm. ....
Kim Frisbie Special to the Daily News Botanical subjects have long inspired artists, with illustrations of plants dating back to 1465 BC in ancient Egypt. Specific plants used for medicinal purposes were compiled into herbals as early as 512 AD. John Gerard’s 1,484-page illustrated Herbal, or Generall Historie of Plantes, was first published in 1597 and was standard medicinal plant reference for more than a century. In 1613, Basilius Besler, a noted apothecary and botanist in Nuremburg, Germany, published the incomparable Florilegium: Hortus Eystettensis, compiling 373 full-color plates of more than 1,000 accurate illustrations of flowers into possibly the best record of plants grown in European gardens in the 16th century. Still regarded as one of the most important botanical books ever written, this was the first time flowering plants were portrayed as objects of beauty, changing the emphasis from medicinal herbs toward more aesthetic artistry. ....
Jan 9, 2021 Frank J. Flagella, 74, of Fredonia, passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at Brooks Memorial Hospital following a brief battle with cancer. He was born on March 1, 1946, in Dunkirk, N.Y., the son of the late Frank and Mildred (Ceranowicz) Flagella. Frank was a graduate from Cassadaga High School in 1964 and The State University of New York at Canton in 1968. He joined the U.S. Army upon graduating from SUNY Canton in 1968 and received an honorable discharge in 1974. He was hired in 1975 to work for the Village of Fredonia Waste Water Treatment Plant in the maintenance department. Upon completion of his New York State Waste Water Operator Certification, Frank was promoted to the Chief Operator’s Position in 1985 where he remained until his retirement in 2009. ....
Article content Once again it is the time of year to test your knowledge of those natural acquaintances that share our environment. Award one point per correct answer. Losers do the kitchen clean up. 1. How many eggs do a robin usually lay in one year? We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. 2. What does the term ‘eclipse plumage’ refer to? 3. If the autumnal equinox marks the beginning of fall, what marks the beginning of spring? 4. How old are bald eagles before they develop the white head and tail? 5. What bird was misnamed the Bird of Washington by John James Audubon? ....