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

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