User: Rhododendrites
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Wikipedian for quite a while now. Mainly as a researcher for the first few years. Then I started teaching with Wikipedia and finally jumped into [very] active editing in 2013. I tend to edit in a wide variety of topic areas. In fact, as I think about it, it's hard to point to topic area concentrations.
I tend to edit in waves, focusing on adding content for a while, then going into maintenance mode for a while. If you don't see me around here, there's a good chance I'm active over on Commons, or out in the world trying to take pictures for Commons.
I'm involved with WikiNYC and engage in a variety of Wikipedia-related activities both online and offline. Leave me a message if you want to talk about Wikipedia research, Wikipedia in education, or New York-area events/partnerships.
Featured Pictures - the birds
- Female/immature
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Marsh wren singing at Hammonasset Beach State Park
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Red-tailed hawk yearbook photo, class of 2022, Central Park
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Western gull sitting on a boat in San Francisco Bay
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Common grackle showing off its iridescence in Central Park
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Northern mockingbird on a fence in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
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Gray catbird in Prospect Park
- Immature
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Ovenbird in Prospect Park
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House finch with a sunflower seed at a feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
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American kestrel that couldn't be released so is now serving as an "ambassador" birdA rescued
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Black-capped chickadee at a feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
- Female
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Song sparrow on Lookout Hill in Prospect Park
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brown-headed cowbird chattering in Jamaica Bay Wildlife RefugeFemale
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Northern cardinal female in Central Park
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Blue jay fledgling calling for its parent in Green-Wood Cemetery
- Juvenile
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Fish crow cawing in Red Hook, Brooklyn
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Northern flicker looking out from its nest in the Central Park North Woods
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Red-tailed hawk rescue
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Anna's hummingbird in Pacifica, California
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Great black-backed gull in Quogue, NY
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Northern shoveler pair "shoveling" together in Marine Park, Brooklyn
- Male
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American oystercatcher family portrait on Fort Tilden beach
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Downy woodpecker foraging in Green-Wood Cemetery
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American coot in Prospect Park
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Mourning dove perched in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
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Male house sparrow in Prospect Park
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House wren
doing its best eel impressionguarding its nestbox. -
Scarlet tanager eating a berry in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Winter wren in Prospect Park
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Piping plover chick in Queens, New York
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Chipping sparrow in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Northern rough-winged swallows in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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Ring-billed gull in a rainbow over Niagara Falls
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hooded merganser resting on the Central Park ReservoirFemale
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Cape May warbler in Prospect Park
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Ring-billed gull in flight over Red Hook, Brooklyn
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Wood duck drake vocalizing in Central Park
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White-breasted nuthatch on a suet feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Black-and-white warbler in Prospect Park
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American robin making a dog whistle-like alarm call in Prospect Park
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Ring-billed gull preening/bathing in Marine Park, Brooklyn
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Forster's tern calling for its parent in Jamaica Bay Wildlife RefugeJuvenile
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European starlings on a birdhouse on Staten Island
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Canada goose gosling in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Veery in the Central Park Ramble
- Close-up of a
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yellow-rumped warbler singing in Green-Wood CemeteryMale
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Piping plover in Queens
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American herring gull manipulating a clam in Marine Park, BrooklynImmature
- Male
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White-breasted nuthatch doing its nuthatchy pose in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Western tanager which popped up in NYC, far from its usual range
- A rescued
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Tufted titmouse floofed up in Central Park
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Mute swan cygnet pontoon on a duckweed-covered pond
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Great egret stabbing the water in Green-Wood Cemetery
- Juvenile
- First winter
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Great blue heron on a frozen pond in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Brown thrasher (snow-nosed variety) in Central Park
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Tree swallow on a nest box in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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Lesser yellowlegs wading at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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Short-billed dowitcher in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond
- Immature
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Ospreys in a nest on Sandy Hook, New Jersey
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ring-billed gulls in Red HookThree
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Tufted titmouse with a seed in Prospect Park
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Northern waterthrush by the Central Park Pool
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Marsh wren singing at Hammonasset Beach State Park
- Rehabilitated
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Northern mockingbird in a "tail up" display in Green-Wood Cemetery
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Downy woodpecker with a leaf on its nose in Prospect Park
Featured Pictures - everything else
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Gaillardia
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Apennine Colossus in TuscanyPanorama of the
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Quogue Village Wetlands Preserve
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Fulton Center skylight
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Crook Point Bascule Bridge in Providence. It's been stuck in the open position for 50 years. A local landmark, but slated for destruction soon.
- Optical illusion on the floor of the
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City Hall Station in Manhattan, abandoned since 1945 because it looked cool but didn't
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California sea lion in La Jolla. My first experience seeing wild sea lions in person. It was ... loud. This one just looked downright majestic in the sun.
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Nubian ibex on a wall at the edge of Makhtesh RamonJuvenile
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leucistic) eastern gray squirrel with a peanutWhite (
- A [pretty dodgy] bridge along a cliff path at the edge of
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Bee balm seedhead
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Group photo of four pears
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Glass blower. This was moments before he accidentally dropped it. Heartbreaking (and vasebreaking). Talented folks here, though, and I actually went back a while later and took a class. Got a piece of lit up frozen spaghetti to prove it.
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Lincoln Center during Pride at dusk
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Ash tree behind a columbarium in Mount Auburn Cemetery
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Alexander Hamilton Custom House Collector's Room ceiling. Had to be a bit obnoxious to get this one, setting up a little tripod in the center of a crowded room and actually getting down on the floor to frame it. Who doesn't like a nice ornate ceiling with a nautical theme, though?
- Two juvenile
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Ship in the San Francisco Bay fog. Got lucky with the dramatic fog on this one, which opened up just enough to frame the ship in light.
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Rice paper butterfly with light shining through in Butterfly World, Florida
- White (
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Northern elephant seals in Ano Nuevo, California
- Abandoned building in
- Abandoned car in
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ospreys) in Trustom Pond in the fogAn island (with
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Stata Center at MIT
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Lower Manhattan panorama
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Prospect Park Vale of Cashmere covered in lesser celandine, with a leucistic white squirrel in the distance
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Governors Island, NYC (panorama)Sunset sky over
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tiger swallowtail butterfly in Central Park (missing its tails)Male
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American lady butterfly in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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Coney Island Mermaid Parade (no, this is not a picture of Rhododendrites)
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Crocuses in early spring.
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Bow Bridge in Central Park (panorama)
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Basilica Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Valletta, MaltaTriq San Patrizju facing
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Green iguana panorama in Palm Beach County
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Orlando nightclub shooting, taken at the Stonewall Inn just after it was designated part of a National MonumentMemorial to the victims of the
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Burberry rainbow cape at the Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibition
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Dyker Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn is known for lots of elaborate Christmas lights, earning the nickname "Dyker Lights"The
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Chestnut Hill Pumping Station in BostonDefunct
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Pond sliders (red and yellow) and a river cooter fighting for basking space
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Pyrosoma atlanticum. Took me a while to figure out what on earth this was. Found in a tidepool in Monterey.
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California sea lion nap time at La Jolla Cove
- Panorama of the once-active waterfront of
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Jade vine (not made of candy)
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Hudson Yards in New York, taken from the top of Hudson Commons (9-frame panorama)
- Rooftop farm on the
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Magnolia x veitchii bud
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Cattlianthe Gold Digger ‘Orglade's Mandarin’ orchid
- Window in a cafe in
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eastern amberwing dragonfly in the Brooklyn Botanic GardenMale
- Manhattan at night, looking north from
- A mural of patients in the long-defunct
- Saint Christopher Street in
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One World Trade Center through the Oculus
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Waldemarsviken in Stockholm
- Ceiling mosaic in the
- The
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Toronto Reference Library interior from the top floor
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Black Lives Matter mural in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
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Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond
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Familiar bluet in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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Pier 66 and Hudson Yards
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Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco (18-frame panorama)
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clementine with/without peelComposite of a
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Maroon Bells. Easily one of the most awe-inspiring natural scenes I've experienced.
- Daubeny's
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elephant seal resting between fights in Ano NuevoMale
- Condenser at the defunct
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Wonder Wheel sign on Coney Island
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The Seaside Sanatorium in Connecticut
- Quarry in
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Eastern chipmunk with stuffed cheeks in Prospect Park
- A mural of patients in the long-defunct
- Salix
- Open Ocean exhibit at
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