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Wild About: Natural Inhabitants of Washington Square Park

Image: Map of the Natural Inhabitants & Visitors of Washington Square Park by Eric Chase Anderson ( source ) If you've seen Wes Anderson's films then you've seen the artwork of his illustrator brother, Eric Chase Anderson. Eric Anderson developed a Map of the Natural Inhabitants & Visitors of Washington Square Park for the NYU Alumni Magazine. The map is an insert in Issue #23. You can view the map online (scroll to the last page then flip inward two pages). Issue #23 is also embedded at the end of this post. Humans - and their dogs - made the list! The 14 animal inhabitants and visitors featured on the map are the 1. American tree sparrow 2. Cedar waxwing 3. Dark-eyed junco 4. Domestic dog 5. Downy woodpecker 6. Eastern gray squirrel 7. House mouse 8. House sparrow 9. Human 10. Little brown bat 11. Northern cardinal 12. Norway rat 13. Red-tailed hawk 14. Rock dove [aka rock pigeon or pigeon] One of my favorite features of the map is the pro

Top 14 blog posts in 2014

Can you tell which topic dominated the blog in 2014? Here are the 14 most popular posts in 2014 in ascending order. 14. Joe Dobrow's Natural Prophets book launch 13. Lunar New Year 2014 Parade 12. Tree guides to five Manhattan playgrounds 11. Martha and the extinction of passenger pigeons 10. Wild About: Bees 9. Short Stack: Books about urban animals 8. 24 tree species in the Tree Museum 7. [New Deadline] CONTEST - Name the #WashingtonSquarePark Ecology Map 6. 8 Children's books about the weather 5. Before & After Green: Domenici U.S. Courthouse Water Retrofit 4. Wild About: Snowy owls 3. 5 Lessons for Rebuild by Design from existing NYC stormwater projects 2. Book Review: The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert 1. Self-guided fall foliage tree tour of Washington Square Park Thank you for reading the blog in 2014. Your continued participation in the life of the blog in 2015 is appreciated!