User: `Rhododendrites`

Active on English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons; occasional user of other Wikimedia projects (Wikidata, Meta, etc.). Leave a message or feel free to email.

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

Commons categories: (FP-VI-QI)

Featured Pictures - the birds
Image 1Gray catbird watching a hawk fly overhead in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 2Immature American herring gull manipulating a clam in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 3American robin
Image 4Purple martin in flight in Cape May, New Jersey
Image 5First winter laughing gull in Riverhead, New York
Image 6Palm warbler perched in Prospect Park
Image 7Wood duck drake vocalizing in Central Park
Image 8Marsh wren singing at Hammonasset Beach State Park
Image 9American robin making a dog whistle-like alarm call in Prospect Park
Image 10Brown thrasher (snow-nosed variety) in Central Park
Image 11Black-and-white warbler in Prospect Park
Image 12American coot in Prospect Park
Image 13Mandarin duck drake in eclipse plumage in Royal Lazienki Park
Image 14Great blue heron lurching its head back to swallow a brown watersnake in Green Cay Wetlands
Image 15Eastern kingbird
Image 16Ring-billed gull coming in for an unwelcome landing
Image 17Broad-billed motmot at the Arenal Observatory
Image 18Mourning dove perched in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Image 19Ring-billed gull in flight over Red Hook, Brooklyn
Image 20Tree swallow on a nest box in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 21Killdeer at the South Cape May Meadows
Image 22Juvenile American robin
Image 23Rehabilitated eastern screech owl
Image 24American woodcock in Bryant Park
Image 25Juvenile eastern kingbird
Image 26Hermit thrush at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Image 27White ibis in Ocean City, New Jersey (I kind of prefer the uncropped version)
Image 28Tufted titmouse with a seed in Prospect Park
Image 29American goldfinch in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 30Canada goose gosling in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 31American tree sparrow in Central Park
Image 32Black-capped chickadee at a feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 33Northern waterthrush by the Central Park Pool
Image 34Yellow-bellied sapsucker in Central Park
Image 35Golden-crowned kinglet
Image 36Close-up of a white-throated sparrow in Central Park
Image 37Western tanager which popped up in NYC, far from its usual range
Image 38Black-capped chickadee eating seeds in Central Park
Image 39Cedar waxwing in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 40Bay-breasted warbler in Central Park
Image 41Ring-billed gull in a rainbow over Niagara Falls
Image 42Male yellow-rumped warbler singing in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 43Scarlet tanager eating a berry in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 44Huge 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 45Snowy egret
Image 46Immature cooper's hawk in Prospect Park
Image 47Rufous motmot, Costa Rica
Image 48Tufted titmouse perched in Central Park
Image 49House sparrow mother with chicks
Image 50Great blue heron on a frozen pond in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 51White-throated sparrow in Prospect Park
Image 52Great black-backed gull in Quogue, NY
Image 53American avocet fishing in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 54Gray catbird in Central Park
Image 55Great blue heron in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 56Yellow warbler in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 57Piping plover chick in Queens, New York
Image 58House sparrows in Central Park
Image 59Blackpoll warbler amid flowering dogwood leaves in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 60Green heron in Prospect Park
Image 61A rescued American kestrel that couldn't be released so is now serving as an "ambassador" bird
Image 62Cape May warbler in Prospect Park
Image 63Female wood duck
Image 64Cedar waxwing in pokeweed in Prospect Park
Image 65Chipping sparrow in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 66Redhead in Central Park
Image 67Ring-billed gull preening/bathing in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 68Female/immature Baltimore oriole in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 69Northern mockingbird on a fence in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Image 70Juvenile yellow-crowned night heron at Plumb Beach
Image 71Lesser yellowlegs at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 72Common grackle in Prospect Park
Image 73Downy woodpecker with a leaf on its nose in Prospect Park
Image 74Ovenbird in Prospect Park
Image 75Female hooded merganser resting on the Central Park Reservoir
Image 76Eastern wood pewee in Prospect Park
Image 77Winter wren in Prospect Park
Image 78Red-tailed hawk yearbook photo, class of 2022, Central Park
Image 79Western kingbird at Bush Terminal Park
Image 80Mute swan and cygnets on a duckweed-covered pond
Image 81Dark-eyed junco in Brooklyn
Image 82Northern shoveler pair "shoveling" together in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 83Juvenile Forster's tern calling for its parent in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 84Ospreys in a nest on Sandy Hook, New Jersey
Image 85Piping plover in Queens
Image 86Male northern shoveler in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 87Palm warbler in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 88Dark-eyed junco at Bush Terminal Park
Image 89Eastern wood pewee in Central Park
Image 90Fish crow cawing in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Image 91Male house sparrow in Prospect Park
Image 92Tropical kingbird in the rain by Lake Arenal
Image 93Black-crowned night heron in Prospect Park
Image 94Snowy egret in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 95Apricot Mandarin duckling in Royal Lazienki Park
Image 96Male black-throated green warbler in Prospect Park
Image 97Golden-crowned kinglet at a banding station
Image 98Female northern cardinal in Central Park
Image 99Female brown-headed cowbird chattering in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 100Pine warbler perched in Prospect Park
Image 101Western gull sitting on a boat in San Francisco Bay
Image 102American avocet
Image 103Blue jay in Prospect Park
Image 104House finch with a sunflower seed at a feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 105American oystercatcher family portrait on Fort Tilden beach
Image 106Red-necked phalarope at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 107Northern rough-winged swallows in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 108Song sparrow on Lookout Hill in Prospect Park
Image 109Male brown-headed cowbird in Prospect Park
Image 110Semipalmated sandpiper at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 111European starlings on a birdhouse on Staten Island
Image 112Short-billed dowitcher in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond
Image 113Male northern cardinal in Central Park
Image 114Brown creeper about to be released at a bird banding station in the United States
Image 115Lesser yellowlegs wading at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 116Ruby-crowned kinglet in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 117Northern mockingbird in a "tail up" display in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 118Field sparrow in Central Park
Image 119Red-tailed hawk rescue
Image 120Great kiskadee in La Fortuna, Costa Rica
Image 121Warbling vireo singing in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 122Immature mute swan in Prospect Park
Image 123Anna's hummingbird in Pacifica, California
Image 124A rescued Eurasian eagle-owl
Image 125Western kingbird at Bush Terminal Piers Park
Image 126Pine siskin in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 127White-breasted nuthatch on a suet feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 128Gray catbird with a chokeberry in Prospect Park
Image 129Great egret stabbing the water in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 130Blue-gray tanager in La Fortuna, Costa Rica
Image 131Veery in the Central Park Ramble
Image 132Downy woodpecker foraging in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 133Juvenile yellow-bellied sapsucker in Prospect Park
Image 134Gray catbird in Prospect Park
Image 135Tufted titmouse floofed up in Central Park
Image 136Red-tailed hawk, fearsome predator
Image 137Northern cardinal female in Central Park
Image 138House wren doing its best eel impression guarding its nestbox.
Image 139Blue jay fledgling calling for its parent in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 140Mute swan cygnet pontoon on a duckweed-covered pond
Image 141Marsh wren singing at Hammonasset Beach State Park
Image 142Three ring-billed gulls in Red Hook
Image 143Ring-billed gull in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Image 144European starling in Central Park
Image 145First-winter American herring gull, Brooklyn
Image 146Common grackle showing off its iridescence in Central Park
Image 147White-breasted nuthatch doing its nuthatchy pose in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 148Northern flicker looking out from its nest in the Central Park North Woods
Featured Pictures - everything else
Image 1Pipevine swallowtail
Image 2Eastern cottontail portrait in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 3A mural of patients in the long-defunct Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
Image 4Black Lives Matter mural in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Image 5Bow Bridge in Central Park (panorama)
Image 6Baird's tapir mother with baby in Costa Rica
Image 7Maroon Bells. Easily one of the most awe-inspiring natural scenes I've experienced.
Image 8Duomo Firenze terrace
Image 9Male elephant seal resting between fights in Ano Nuevo
Image 10Ship 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 11Immature male blue dasher
Image 12Large milkweed bug
Image 13Algal mat in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 14Coleus
Image 15Bigfin reef squid at Monterey Bay Aquarium
Image 16Magnolia x veitchii bud
Image 17Northern elephant seals in Ano Nuevo, California
Image 18Wonder Wheel sign on Coney Island
Image 19The Seaside Sanatorium in Connecticut
Image 20Group photo of four pears
Image 21One World Trade Center through the Oculus
Image 22Manhattan at night, looking north from Rockefeller Center
Image 23RJ Palacio
Image 24Panorama of the once-active waterfront of Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Image 25Left by Gucci/Dapper Dan, 2018. Right by Louis Vuitton/Kim Jones, autumn/winter 2018-19, Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Image 26An island (with ospreys) in Trustom Pond in the fog
Image 27Jade vine (not made of candy)
Image 28White (leucistic) eastern gray squirrel with a peanut
Image 29Common buckeye in Eagle Creek Park, Indianapolis
Image 30Monarch butterfly
Image 31Eastern chipmunk with stuffed cheeks in Prospect Park
Image 32Moss-covered oak trees in the Bothe-Napa Valley State Park
Image 33Male tiger swallowtail butterfly in Central Park (missing its tails)
Image 34Sarracenia leucophylla
Image 35Male eastern amberwing dragonfly in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 36Optical illusion on the floor of the Florence Cathedral
Image 37Panorama of the Apennine Colossus in Tuscany
Image 38Eldridge Street Synagogue
Image 39Abandoned van by Gerritsen Creek
Image 40Tiger bee fly
Image 41Gaillardia
Image 42Hell Gate Bridge, with a scow being towed along the Hell Gate section of the East River
Image 43Hudson Yards in New York, taken from the top of Hudson Commons (9-frame panorama)
Image 44Triq San Patrizju facing Basilica Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Valletta, Malta
Image 45Monarch butterfly caterpillar on butterfly weed
Image 46Fulton Center skylight
Image 47Jun Takahashi dress for Undercover in the Sleeping Beauties exhibition at the Met
Image 48Prospect Park Vale of Cashmere covered in lesser celandine, with a leucistic white squirrel in the distance
Image 49Burberry rainbow cape at the Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibition
Image 50Coney Island Mermaid Parade (no, this is not a picture of Rhododendrites)
Image 51Saint Christopher Street in Valletta
Image 52Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Katowice
Image 53Coney Island Mermaid Parade
Image 54Chinese mantis ootheca in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 55Glass 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 56Strawberry poison dart frog in Costa Rica
Image 57Sunset sky over Governors Island, NYC (panorama)
Image 58Two juvenile Nubian ibex
Image 59The Oculus
Image 60Pier 66 and Hudson Yards
Image 61Waldemarsviken in Stockholm
Image 62Eastern amberwing
Image 63Stata Center at MIT
Image 64A cavapoo dog chasing a maltipoo dog with a ball
Image 65Maroon Bells
Image 66Alexander 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 67The Dyker Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn is known for lots of elaborate Christmas lights, earning the nickname "Dyker Lights"
Image 68Northern flatid planthopper nymph
Image 69Pyrosoma atlanticum. Took me a while to figure out what on earth this was. Found in a tidepool in Monterey.
Image 70Memorial to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting, taken at the Stonewall Inn just after it was designated part of a National Monument
Image 71Ceiling mosaic in the Surrogate's Courthouse
Image 72Proboscis bats in Alajuela Province, Costa Rica
Image 73TWA Hotel
Image 74Castle Square, Warsaw
Image 75Pond sliders in Prospect Park
Image 76Crook 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 77White (eucistic) eastern gray squirrel perched on a tree in Prospect Park
Image 78Quogue Village Wetlands Preserve
Image 79Twice-stabbed stink bug on meadow anemone
Image 80Bee balm seedhead
Image 81Male monarch butterfly on Tithonia
Image 82Moschino fall 2014 ready-to-wear ensemble in the Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibit at the Met
Image 83Monarch butterfly
Image 84Salix catkins
Image 85Frizzle sizzle
Image 86Toronto Reference Library interior from the top floor
Image 87Mantled howler monkey with baby in Costa Rica
Image 88Comme des Garcons at the Met
Image 89Orchard orbweaver
Image 90Male familiar bluet
Image 91City Hall Station in Manhattan, abandoned since 1945 because it looked cool but didn't
Image 92Sukkah at Congregation Emanu-El of New York
Image 93Abandoned building in Floyd Bennett Field
Image 94Redbeckia occidentalis
Image 95California sea lion nap time at La Jolla Cove
Image 96Sasheer Zamata at a Time's Up event during the Tribeca Film Festival
Image 97Female eastern amberwing
Image 98Open Ocean exhibit at Monterey Bay Aquarium
Image 99Florence seen from the Duomo terrace
Image 100Rooftop farm on the Lower East Side
Image 101Cattlianthe Gold Digger ‘Orglade's Mandarin’ orchid
Image 102Defunct Chestnut Hill Pumping Station in Boston
Image 103Condenser at the defunct Chestnut Hill Pumping Station
Image 104Eastern cicada killer perched on a black-eyed susan
Image 105Eastern gray squirrel in Central Park
Image 106Abandoned car in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 107Juvenile Nubian ibex on a wall at the edge of Makhtesh Ramon
Image 108American lady butterfly in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 109Hell Gate Bridge
Image 110Pond sliders (red and yellow) and a river cooter fighting for basking space
Image 111Camp: Notes on Fashion at the Met
Image 112Crocuses in early spring.
Image 113Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco (18-frame panorama)
Image 114California 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 115Red admiral butterfly on purple coneflower in Brooklyn Bridge Park
Image 116Red squirrel in Royal Lazienki Park
Image 117Great golden digger wasp in Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 118Staszic Palace
Image 119Lincoln Center during Pride at dusk
Image 120A mural of patients in the long-defunct Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
Image 121Old Hook Mill
Image 122Composite of a clementine with/without peel
Image 123Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond
Image 124Ash tree behind a columbarium in Mount Auburn Cemetery
Image 125Bluebells in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 126Makhtesh Ramon
Image 127Razor clamshell dress by Alexander McQueen from spring/summer 2001, in the Sleeping Beauties exhibition at The Met
Image 128Daubeny's water lily
Image 129Green iguana panorama in Palm Beach County
Image 130Rice paper butterfly with light shining through in Butterfly World, Florida
Image 131Arenal volcano
Image 132Window in a cafe in San Gimignano, Italy
Image 133Nine-banded armadillo in Costa Rica
Image 134Small milkweed bug in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 135Quarry in Makhtesh Ramon
Image 136Hell Gate Bridge walking path on Randall's Island
Image 137Boston Public Garden
Image 138A [pretty dodgy] bridge along a cliff path at the edge of Makhtesh Ramon
Image 139Raccoon in Central Park
Image 140Lower Manhattan panorama
Image 141Familiar bluet in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 142Pearl crescent on purple coneflower

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