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

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