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A guiding principle of the Bird Photographer of the Year contest is “celebrating bird life from around the world,” but this year’s overall winner instead focuses on avian death. Patricia Homonylo’s “When Worlds Collide” depicts thousands of dead birds, victims of building collisions, arranged in concentric circles.
We have been following the charmed life of Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who flew the coop in the Central Park Zoo nine months ago and has lived in freedom ever since. This week Flaco took off again, this time to a garden in the Lower East Side and beyond. Wherever he lands next is up to Flaco.
The mighty bald eagle, which had not been seen in Gotham for about a hundred years, has found purchase on Staten Island, where at least four adults and a dozen offspring now call home.
While the damage wrought by Hurricane Idalia is still being assessed, one pleasant consequence of the storm has been the extensive dispersal of the American flamingo. The big pink birds are being spotted throughout much of the Eastern Seaboard this week, no worse for wear.
Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk who feathered his nest on Fifth Avenue, has died. He was about 33 years of age and leaves behind his significant other, Octavia.
