Urban Wildlife Guide

Sunday, November 23, 2025

Cooper's Hawk

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  This is an immature male Cooper's hawk. A breeze is ruffling its breast feathers. The eyes are yellow, indicating it's a first yea...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

Birdwatching Yesterday

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I went birdwatching at Forsythe Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey yesterday. It's beautiful there in autumn. Click to enlarge.    This lovel...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

Boxelder Bugs

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  I was out of my home territory yesterday, visiting West Deptford, N.J., close to the Delaware River. It was marshy and although I did not ...
Sunday, November 2, 2025

Autumn Leaves

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No thoughts today, just colored leaves.  Click to enlarge.  Take the yellow path.  But do not touch the poison ivy, pretty though it may be....
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Happy Halloween!

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  Halloween's coming. Candy's on the menu. BONE appétit! Click to enlarge.
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Windfall Caterpillar

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  I find some of my best caterpillars on boardwalks under trees on windy days. They get blown from the tree and fall onto the contrasting su...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Urban Wildlife

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  Urban wildlife sighting in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia. Click to enlarge. Squirrel evolution has reached the Age of Picnic Tables. ...
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Julie Feinstein
I am a Collection Manager at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. I live in Brooklyn. Most mornings I walk a few blocks to the subway station. I get off the train at 59th street in Manhattan and walk a mile along Central Park West through one of the most urban settings in the world. I see a nonhuman mammal or two, a few dozen birds, and a variety of intriguing insects every day; this blog is a collection of stories about them. UPDATE, JUNE 2018: I retired from the museum and moved away from New York City. I'm in a little town on the Delaware across from Philadelphia that is teeming with urban and suburban wildlife. Best of all, I'm close to the New Jersey Pine Barrens which is unique and lovely and full of future blogs.
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