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‘I Had to See That Owl’: Central Park’s New Celebrity Bird [NYC ANOTHER OWL!]
NYT ^ | Published Nov. 17, 2020 Updated Nov. 19, 2020, 11:55 a.m. ET | By Lisa M. Collins

Posted on 11/19/2020 10:48:16 AM PST by Red Badger

New Yorkers are so obsessed with Barry the barred owl that some are concerned he could be scared away. So far, he seems to like the attention.

Barry the Barred Owl is New York City’s bird of the moment.Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times

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It was late afternoon in the North Woods of Central Park, and the sun was setting fast. Joshua Kristal, a photographer with a penchant for birds, was starting to feel despondent as he searched along the creek, looking for any movement. This was the third time he’d traveled more than an hour from Brooklyn to see Manhattan’s newest celebrity bird: an ethereal and majestic barred owl.

Currently known as Barry, the owl has intense black eyes and elegant poufs of white feathers streaked with brown and gray. He looks like a perfect stuffed animal from a high-end toy store. But Barry is also unusual. Though owls are typically nocturnal, he makes regular daytime appearances, and has become something of a performer. Practically vogueing, he stares, preens and swoops into the shallow stream to wash and flick his feathers. Barry will turn his head 270 degrees right and left and up above to check for his archenemy, the hawk. He plucks chipmunks with his talons and devours them, seemingly unfazed by adoring fans and the paparazzi, many of whom have already made him Instagram-famous.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: History; Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Society
KEYWORDS: barry; birds; owl
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To: Red Badger

Owls are really cool with the big eyes and all.
I saw a great horned on my back 40 last month and it must have been 2 ft tall.
Rare to see, I have seen one twice in 5 years.


21 posted on 11/19/2020 11:07:11 AM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Friend lives in Brooklyn and another on Staten Island. They both say Midtown is a boarded up sh*thole and depressing.


22 posted on 11/19/2020 11:08:34 AM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Iowa Granny; Ladysmith; Diana in Wisconsin; JLO; sergeantdave; damncat; phantomworker; joesnuffy; ..
Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.

Another NYC owl! This one eats chipmunks not mice.

23 posted on 11/19/2020 11:09:56 AM PST by SJackson (Let me control the media and I will turn any nation into a herd of sheep, J. Goebbels)
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To: shanover

Breaks my heart.

Glad my kids got to see it when it was vibrant.


24 posted on 11/19/2020 11:11:08 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Red Badger

BarryCam
25 posted on 11/19/2020 11:13:23 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Fake but funny...


26 posted on 11/19/2020 11:15:01 AM PST by Professional ( )
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To: dp0622
But I have known HUNDREDS of liberal small town guys and gals that left for the bright lights of the Big Apple. Ironic

I worked with a bunch of big libs from out of state when I worked in NYC.

They were from North Carolina, Arkansas, Michigan, Minnesota...etc., and they were Big Government liberals.

Nowadays, when I visit my son in Brooklyn, the neighborhoods there are filled with liberal out of state, hipsters.

And one person who no longer lives there is my uncle, who voted for Goldwater and Reagan.

27 posted on 11/19/2020 11:15:47 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

Figures.

And yeah Brooklyn is teeming with them!!

They ran over black neighborhoods and yet being so liberal...they didn’t leave any houses or tenements for the blacks to stay in.

I thought the liberal thing to do would have been to make sure 20 percent of the property stayed with minorities

Hypocrites.

Hey your son lives in Brooklyn :)

I’ll yell out the window from Staten Island and say hi later :)

We are separated by an EIGHTEEN DOLLAR bridge.

6 if you live on staten island.

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28 posted on 11/19/2020 11:20:32 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: dfwgator

Nunya bidness.


29 posted on 11/19/2020 11:21:04 AM PST by Burma Jones
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To: right way right
Great Horned Owls are a pretty common sight where I live in Arizona, even around the suburbs of Phoenix, Mesa, and Tucson. You hear them more often than see them, but sometimes you can locate them at the tip-top of a tree or a lamp post. There was one hanging out in a palm tree outside the window at our last house, and after 9:00 pm or so, he would hoot up a storm.

I ran into one during the day on the ground once and, yes, they are surprisingly large, especially when they spread those big wings and fly silently away.

30 posted on 11/19/2020 11:22:01 AM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: Red Badger

Big deal. I’ve got owls on my place and in the evening they serenade me with their hoots. But then, big City people who usually don’t give a ‘Hoot”, suddenly give a “Hoot”.


31 posted on 11/19/2020 11:22:52 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Burma Jones

You must be Turkish.


32 posted on 11/19/2020 11:26:47 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dp0622
Hey your son lives in Brooklyn :) I’ll yell out the window from Staten Island and say hi later :)

He's in hipsterville, Greenpoint.

My Goldwater loving uncle, before he moved to FL, was in Canarsie.

33 posted on 11/19/2020 11:32:41 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Same here. We used to have one Barred Owl in particular come to a tree where I could see him from the family room window (my house overlooks woods and a creek). Beautiful bird!

Then one time I saw him (or her) grooming another one. Fascinating! As of last year, I haven’t seen this owl close enough to watch daily. I wonder if he passed. There were babies one year, so I’m guessing those are the ones I hear in the evening. They are nearby, but not quite as visible as “Ollie” was.

Luckily, I have some very nice photos of Ollie and Olivia (the name I gave to his grooming friend).


34 posted on 11/19/2020 11:34:49 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

We have a Hooter’s!..................


35 posted on 11/19/2020 11:36:00 AM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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To: FreeReign

Canarsie! Had uncles that lived there :)

And that Definitely is hipsterville.

The working class Italian and Jewish neighborhoods have mostly disappeared. Mostly.


36 posted on 11/19/2020 11:38:32 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: dfwgator

It’s nobodies business but the Turks


37 posted on 11/19/2020 11:43:51 AM PST by Woodman
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To: dp0622

I was there in December of ‘81.

My boyfriend’s buddy was driving the car and the boyfriend was riding shotgun.

I was in the backseat with my Wonder Dobe, Tito.

A hooker leaned in the window at a stop light and said “I can show you a good time” and my boyfriend started to say “My girlfriend is right...” but she interrupted him and said “I was talking to the dog”.

I came up over the back of the seat and went for her throat so fast, the guy stalled out the car as he and my boyfriend grabbed me and kept me from going out the window.

Fecking weirdos in that town and the dog was my baby.

:D


38 posted on 11/19/2020 11:57:41 AM PST by Salamander ( What you bought, you owned, and what you owned eventually came home to you.)
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To: Salamander

That could only have been the lower West side. It was crazy down there. And I bet you do :-)


39 posted on 11/19/2020 12:05:47 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: fidelis

I hear them more often than I see them in all the fir trees here, the dog barks at the night time hooting.
What she really hates is the coyotes carrying on.


40 posted on 11/19/2020 12:10:01 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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