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.

In addition to the

s linked at the top of the page, here are some fun ones

guerilla gardening group who threw "seed grenades" into empty lots on the Lower East Side

site of a chocolate flood

site of a wine flood

first human cannonball

fictional order or mammals with diversely functional noses

largest ship graveyard in Rhode Island

mandarin duck who became a minor celebrity in Central Park

"the bug lady" of the American Museum of Natural History, also known for origami

the most trafficked animal in the world

first woman engineer at NASA

variant of chess where the pieces "explode"

myth of foreign ships being invisible to natives

little drawings of flies or bees in urinals

NYC's only wildlife hospital

art video game about marriage

when crime and corruption caused a third of the population or Rhode Island to lose access to their bank accounts

event space that almost burned down due to an eel in a fire hose, and later made "all your dreams come true" before it was demolished

one of the most successful jingle music groups in mid-20th century Chicago

devices used by people living in areas of conflict or under oppressive regimes to create pirate radio stations

social movement archive

compilation of psychedelic Cambodian rock music from just before the Khmer Rouge

former squat called the Batcave

cybernetic meadows...

landfill that a lot of people in Rhode Island think is the tallest point in the state (it's not though)

oldest nut company in the US, makers of ubiquitous displays of blue-packaged nuts/fruit

someone who led bird walks in Central Park for 40 years

how listening to music via headphones gives you a greater sense of control over your environment

one of the earliest sorta-kinda encyclopedias

beloved public bathroom

online black market

destroying ivory as an elephant conservation approach

journalistic technique for handling misinformation

dog memorialized in Green-Wood Cemetery

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.

Rhododendrites

rhododendrites AT gmail DOT com

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Gallery on Commons (FP-VI-QI)

Featured Pictures - the birds
Image 1First winter laughing gull in Riverhead, New York
Image 2Snowy egret in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 3American avocet
Image 4American tree sparrow in Central Park
Image 5Anna's hummingbird in Pacifica, California
Image 6Redhead in Central Park
Image 7Eastern wood pewee in Central Park
Image 8Brown thrasher (snow-nosed variety) in Central Park
Image 9Mute swan cygnet pontoon on a duckweed-covered pond
Image 10Male northern cardinal in Central Park
Image 11Red-tailed hawk rescue
Image 12Northern rough-winged swallows in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 13Gray catbird watching a hawk fly overhead in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 14Chipping sparrow in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 15Juvenile Forster's tern calling for its parent in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 16Snowy egret
Image 17Great blue heron in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 18Gray catbird with a chokeberry in Prospect Park
Image 19Killdeer at the South Cape May Meadows
Image 20Piping plover chick in Queens, New York
Image 21Female brown-headed cowbird chattering in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 22Ring-billed gull in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Image 23Three ring-billed gulls in Red Hook
Image 24Mourning dove perched in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Image 25White-throated sparrow in Prospect Park
Image 26Blackpoll warbler amid flowering dogwood leaves in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 27Green heron in Prospect Park
Image 28Immature cooper's hawk in Prospect Park
Image 29Cedar waxwing in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 30Bay-breasted warbler in Central Park
Image 31Immature mute swan in Prospect Park
Image 32Golden-crowned kinglet
Image 33Blue jay in Prospect Park
Image 34American robin making a dog whistle-like alarm call in Prospect Park
Image 35Field sparrow in Central Park
Image 36Western gull sitting on a boat in San Francisco Bay
Image 37American coot in Prospect Park
Image 38Red-necked phalarope at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 39Black-and-white warbler in Prospect Park
Image 40Northern mockingbird on a fence in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Image 41Lesser yellowlegs at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 42Juvenile yellow-bellied sapsucker in Prospect Park
Image 43Female wood duck
Image 44Mute swan and cygnets on a duckweed-covered pond
Image 45Common grackle showing off its iridescence in Central Park
Image 46Downy woodpecker with a leaf on its nose in Prospect Park
Image 47Marsh wren singing at Hammonasset Beach State Park
Image 48Black-capped chickadee at a feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 49Pine siskin in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 50Northern flicker looking out from its nest in the Central Park North Woods
Image 51Short-billed dowitcher in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond
Image 52Northern waterthrush by the Central Park Pool
Image 53Male black-throated green warbler in Prospect Park
Image 54Male house sparrow in Prospect Park
Image 55Piping plover in Queens
Image 56Fish crow cawing in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Image 57Lesser yellowlegs wading at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 58Wood duck drake vocalizing in Central Park
Image 59Mandarin duck drake in eclipse plumage in Royal Lazienki Park
Image 60European starlings on a birdhouse on Staten Island
Image 61Great egret stabbing the water in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 62Song sparrow on Lookout Hill in Prospect Park
Image 63Marsh wren singing at Hammonasset Beach State Park
Image 64Tufted titmouse floofed up in Central Park
Image 65Huge flock of gulls (laughing gulls, mostly) just after they were spooked by something during a horseshoe crab feeding frenzy in Cape May, New Jersey
Image 66A rescued American kestrel that couldn't be released so is now serving as an "ambassador" bird
Image 67Female/immature Baltimore oriole in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 68Cape May warbler in Prospect Park
Image 69Northern shoveler pair "shoveling" together in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 70Ring-billed gull in flight over Red Hook, Brooklyn
Image 71Downy woodpecker foraging in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 72Tufted titmouse with a seed in Prospect Park
Image 73Tree swallow on a nest box in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 74White-breasted nuthatch doing its nuthatchy pose in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 75Close-up of a white-throated sparrow in Central Park
Image 76Blue jay fledgling calling for its parent in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 77Western tanager which popped up in NYC, far from its usual range
Image 78Male yellow-rumped warbler singing in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 79Ovenbird in Prospect Park
Image 80American oystercatcher family portrait on Fort Tilden beach
Image 81Semipalmated sandpiper at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 82Gray catbird in Prospect Park
Image 83Male northern shoveler in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 84Red-tailed hawk yearbook photo, class of 2022, Central Park
Image 85White-breasted nuthatch on a suet feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 86House wren doing its best eel impression guarding its nestbox.
Image 87Northern cardinal female in Central Park
Image 88A rescued Eurasian eagle-owl
Image 89Female northern cardinal in Central Park
Image 90Canada goose gosling in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 91Great blue heron on a frozen pond in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 92Rehabilitated eastern screech owl
Image 93Female hooded merganser resting on the Central Park Reservoir
Image 94Ring-billed gull in a rainbow over Niagara Falls
Image 95European starling in Central Park
Image 96Red-tailed hawk, fearsome predator
Image 97Winter wren in Prospect Park
Image 98Veery in the Central Park Ramble
Image 99Gray catbird in Central Park
Image 100House finch with a sunflower seed at a feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 101Yellow-bellied sapsucker in Central Park
Image 102Ospreys in a nest on Sandy Hook, New Jersey
Image 103American robin
Image 104Great blue heron lurching its head back to swallow a brown watersnake in Green Cay Wetlands
Image 105Scarlet tanager eating a berry in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 106White ibis in Ocean City, New Jersey (I kind of prefer the uncropped version)
Image 107Cedar waxwing in pokeweed in Prospect Park
Image 108Ring-billed gull preening/bathing in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 109Great black-backed gull in Quogue, NY
Image 110House sparrows in Central Park
Image 111Palm warbler in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 112Ruby-crowned kinglet in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 113Immature American herring gull manipulating a clam in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 114Juvenile American robin
Image 115Purple martin in flight in Cape May, New Jersey
Image 116Northern mockingbird in a "tail up" display in Green-Wood Cemetery
Featured Pictures - everything else
Image 1Immature male blue dasher
Image 2Male tiger swallowtail butterfly in Central Park (missing its tails)
Image 3Juvenile Nubian ibex on a wall at the edge of Makhtesh Ramon
Image 4White (leucistic) eastern gray squirrel with a peanut
Image 5Optical illusion on the floor of the Florence Cathedral
Image 6Abandoned building in Floyd Bennett Field
Image 7Abandoned car in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 8Bluebells in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 9Waldemarsviken in Stockholm
Image 10Monarch butterfly
Image 11Chinese mantis ootheca in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 12Eastern chipmunk with stuffed cheeks in Prospect Park
Image 13Florence seen from the Duomo terrace
Image 14Sasheer Zamata at a Time's Up event during the Tribeca Film Festival
Image 15Monarch butterfly
Image 16Bigfin reef squid at Monterey Bay Aquarium
Image 17Red squirrel in Royal Lazienki Park
Image 18RJ Palacio
Image 19Ash tree behind a columbarium in Mount Auburn Cemetery
Image 20Boston Public Garden
Image 21Memorial to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting, taken at the Stonewall Inn just after it was designated part of a National Monument
Image 22Monarch butterfly caterpillar on butterfly weed
Image 23Magnolia x veitchii bud
Image 24Daubeny's water lily
Image 25American lady butterfly in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 26Condenser at the defunct Chestnut Hill Pumping Station
Image 27Old Hook Mill
Image 28Pond sliders (red and yellow) and a river cooter fighting for basking space
Image 29Makhtesh Ramon
Image 30Comme des Garcons at the Met
Image 31Triq San Patrizju facing Basilica Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Valletta, Malta
Image 32Pier 66 and Hudson Yards
Image 33Alexander 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?
Image 34Gaillardia
Image 35A [pretty dodgy] bridge along a cliff path at the edge of Makhtesh Ramon
Image 36Salix catkins
Image 37A mural of patients in the long-defunct Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
Image 38Redbeckia occidentalis
Image 39Hudson Yards in New York, taken from the top of Hudson Commons (9-frame panorama)
Image 40Black Lives Matter mural in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Image 41The Dyker Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn is known for lots of elaborate Christmas lights, earning the nickname "Dyker Lights"
Image 42California sea lion nap time at La Jolla Cove
Image 43Stata Center at MIT
Image 44Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond
Image 45Quogue Village Wetlands Preserve
Image 46Coney Island Mermaid Parade
Image 47Two juvenile Nubian ibex
Image 48Jun Takahashi dress for Undercover in the Sleeping Beauties exhibition at the Met
Image 49Crocuses in early spring.
Image 50Coleus
Image 51Eastern amberwing
Image 52Eldridge Street Synagogue
Image 53Crook Point Bascule Bridge in Providence. It's been stuck in the open position for 50 years. A local landmark, but slated for destruction soon.
Image 54The Oculus
Image 55Eastern cicada killer perched on a black-eyed susan
Image 56City Hall Station in Manhattan, abandoned since 1945 because it looked cool but didn't
Image 57Bow Bridge in Central Park (panorama)
Image 58Pond sliders in Prospect Park
Image 59Jade vine (not made of candy)
Image 60Frizzle sizzle
Image 61The Seaside Sanatorium in Connecticut
Image 62One World Trade Center through the Oculus
Image 63An island (with ospreys) in Trustom Pond in the fog
Image 64Sunset sky over Governors Island, NYC (panorama)
Image 65Northern elephant seals in Ano Nuevo, California
Image 66Raccoon in Central Park
Image 67Maroon Bells. Easily one of the most awe-inspiring natural scenes I've experienced.
Image 68Composite of a clementine with/without peel
Image 69Ceiling mosaic in the Surrogate's Courthouse
Image 70Great golden digger wasp in Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 71A mural of patients in the long-defunct Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
Image 72Open Ocean exhibit at Monterey Bay Aquarium
Image 73TWA Hotel
Image 74Male elephant seal resting between fights in Ano Nuevo
Image 75Familiar bluet in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 76Bee balm seedhead
Image 77Moss-covered oak trees in the Bothe-Napa Valley State Park
Image 78Manhattan at night, looking north from Rockefeller Center
Image 79Group photo of four pears
Image 80Hell Gate Bridge, with a scow being towed along the Hell Gate section of the East River
Image 81Prospect Park Vale of Cashmere covered in lesser celandine, with a leucistic white squirrel in the distance
Image 82Quarry in Makhtesh Ramon
Image 83California 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.
Image 84Sukkah at Congregation Emanu-El of New York
Image 85Pyrosoma atlanticum. Took me a while to figure out what on earth this was. Found in a tidepool in Monterey.
Image 86Defunct Chestnut Hill Pumping Station in Boston
Image 87Male eastern amberwing dragonfly in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 88Toronto Reference Library interior from the top floor
Image 89Glass 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.
Image 90Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco (18-frame panorama)
Image 91Algal mat in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 92Lincoln Center during Pride at dusk
Image 93Hell Gate Bridge
Image 94Wonder Wheel sign on Coney Island
Image 95Cattlianthe Gold Digger ‘Orglade's Mandarin’ orchid
Image 96Window in a cafe in San Gimignano, Italy
Image 97Lower Manhattan panorama
Image 98Razor clamshell dress by Alexander McQueen from spring/summer 2001, in the Sleeping Beauties exhibition at The Met
Image 99Burberry rainbow cape at the Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibition
Image 100White (eucistic) eastern gray squirrel perched on a tree in Prospect Park
Image 101Coney Island Mermaid Parade (no, this is not a picture of Rhododendrites)
Image 102Panorama of the Apennine Colossus in Tuscany
Image 103Rice paper butterfly with light shining through in Butterfly World, Florida
Image 104Panorama of the once-active waterfront of Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Image 105Rooftop farm on the Lower East Side
Image 106Ship 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.
Image 107Green iguana panorama in Palm Beach County
Image 108Saint Christopher Street in Valletta
Image 109Fulton Center skylight
Image 110Eastern gray squirrel in Central Park
Image 111Maroon Bells
Image 112A cavapoo dog chasing a malipoo dog with a ball
Image 113Sarracenia leucophylla

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recent things
Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax Cable Car Cinema Yol Aularong American Privacy Rights Act Flaco (owl) Bryant Park restroom Is-Serkin Gjura Stojana Levira Distillery Killing of Daunte Wright Invisible ships Involuntary hospitalization of Joyce Patricia Brown Gameheads SatanCon Wikipedia article #6,666,666 BRAAAM Birding in New York City Sharon Sprung American Littoral Society

to-do list

could be spiffed up for GA/FL
Rockwood & Company
George Floyd protests in New York City
Pangolin trade
Richard Brautigan bibliography
Boards of Canada discography
Orlando Julius
Pocket FM
Before Yesterday We Could Fly

things left to do
Rockwood & Company
2021–2022 book banning in the United States
Death's Door (video game)
Wild Bird Fund
George Floyd protests in New York City
Dirt Candy
Pangolin trade
Richard Brautigan bibliography
Boards of Canada discography

revisit, recheck for sourcing
Black Lives Matter protests in New York City
Orlando Julius
Obama Foundation
Sexual assault of migrants from Latin America to the United States
Central Landfill
I want a president
Rocky Point State Park
Syrnet
Pocket FM
Don't Think I've Forgotten
Interference Archive
The Farmer's Market
Robert Graham (fashion brand)
AS220
Atomic chess
Free Haven Project
Louis T. Wright
Sheep Marketplace
Stephen Gill Spottswood
The Analytical Language of John Wilkins
Steal This Radio

need more sourcing
I'd like to improve these, but they're on hold pending more/better sourcing (help is welcome!)
Liev Tuk

get to someday
Brooklyn Bird Club
Queens County Bird Club
Feminist Bird Club
Rare bird alerts
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
White tiger
Coffee milk
Thayer Street
Rocky Point Amusement Park
The Act of Killing
Westminster Arcade
Release dove in process

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