Mike D'Antoni is somewhere in the United States, driving a Mustang with the top down, cranking Bob Seger, giving New York the bird.

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And because scores of migratory bird species pass through New York, there is plenty.

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He moved to New York when his patron had to sell his collection of bird specimens to the American Museum in order to pay off a blackmailer.

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She still participates in fundraising activities for the New York City public schools, and is joining Laura Bush and Lynda Bird Johnson Robb to help the Library of Congress promote literacy through a new awards program, along with other authors, publishers and scholars.

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New York City is depicted in several mid-19th-century lithographs whose bird's-eye views suggest that their respective artists captured the scene from hot-air balloons, the most advanced aeronautical technology of the time.

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Some of the best birding spots turn out to be smack in the middle of the most peopled places, like Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and New York's Central Park, where well over 200 of America's 750 bird species pass each spring and fall as they migrate.

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Even though I had not hunted for birds regularly since I moved to New York City in 1997, I felt very comfortable with being able to complete the fishing and bird-hunting legs of the Grand Slam.

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