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

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