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 with a chokeberry in Prospect Park
Image 2Northern flicker looking out from its nest in the Central Park North Woods
Image 3American coot in Prospect Park
Image 4Pine warbler in Brooklyn, NYC
Image 5Great egret stabbing the water in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 6Ospreys in a nest on Sandy Hook, New Jersey
Image 7Field sparrow in Central Park
Image 8Western gull sitting on a boat in San Francisco Bay
Image 9European starling in Central Park
Image 10Juvenile eastern kingbird
Image 11Mute swan and cygnets on a duckweed-covered pond
Image 12House finch with a sunflower seed at a feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 13Lesser yellowlegs at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 14Ring-billed gull preening/bathing in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 15Chipping sparrow in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 16Scarlet tanager eating a berry in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 17Glossy ibis in Queens, NYC
Image 18Female American redstart in Brooklyn, NYC
Image 19Tufted titmouse floofed up in Central Park
Image 20Marsh wren singing at Hammonasset Beach State Park
Image 21American woodcock in Bryant Park
Image 22Juvenile American robin
Image 23White ibis in Ocean City, New Jersey (I kind of prefer the uncropped version)
Image 24Mourning dove perched in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Image 25Gray catbird in Central Park
Image 26Pine siskin in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 27Yellow warbler in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 28Northern shoveler pair "shoveling" together in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 29First-winter American herring gull, Brooklyn
Image 30Broad-billed motmot at the Arenal Observatory
Image 31Female Blackburnian warbler in Brooklyn, NYC
Image 32Common grackle showing off its iridescence in Central Park
Image 33Great kiskadee in La Fortuna, Costa Rica
Image 34Downy woodpecker foraging in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 35Black-capped chickadee eating seeds in Central Park
Image 36Ring-billed gull in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Image 37A rescued Eurasian eagle-owl
Image 38Northern mockingbird in a "tail up" display in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 39Cape May warbler in Prospect Park
Image 40Red-tailed hawk, fearsome predator
Image 41Semipalmated sandpiper at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 42Black-crowned night heron in Prospect Park
Image 43American oystercatcher family portrait on Fort Tilden beach
Image 44Western kingbird at Bush Terminal Piers Park
Image 45Pine warbler perched in Prospect Park
Image 46Canada goose gosling in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 47Piping plover in Queens
Image 48Purple martin in flight in Cape May, New Jersey
Image 49Female northern cardinal in Central Park
Image 50Male brown-headed cowbird in Prospect Park
Image 51Winter wren in Prospect Park
Image 52Brown thrasher (snow-nosed variety) in Central Park
Image 53Great blue heron on a frozen pond in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 54Female brown-headed cowbird chattering in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 55Cedar waxwing in pokeweed in Prospect Park
Image 56Female wood duck
Image 57Anna's hummingbird in Pacifica, California
Image 58Eastern kingbird
Image 59Northern waterthrush by the Central Park Pool
Image 60Tufted titmouse with a seed in Prospect Park
Image 61Gray catbird in Prospect Park
Image 62Male black-throated green warbler in Prospect Park
Image 63Ring-billed gull in a rainbow over Niagara Falls
Image 64House sparrow mother with chicks
Image 65Song sparrow on Lookout Hill in Prospect Park
Image 66Common grackle in Prospect Park
Image 67Immature American herring gull manipulating a clam in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 68Blackpoll warbler amid flowering dogwood leaves in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 69Blue-gray tanager in La Fortuna, Costa Rica
Image 70White-breasted nuthatch doing its nuthatchy pose in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 71American avocet fishing in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 72Lincoln's sparrow in Brooklyn, NYC
Image 73White-throated sparrow in Prospect Park
Image 74Northern rough-winged swallows in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 75Rehabilitated eastern screech owl
Image 76Dark-eyed junco at Bush Terminal Park
Image 77Cedar waxwing in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 78Juvenile yellow-crowned night heron at Plumb Beach
Image 79Blue jay in Prospect Park
Image 80Male yellow-rumped warbler singing in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 81Short-billed dowitcher in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond
Image 82Marsh wren singing at Hammonasset Beach State Park
Image 83Red-tailed hawk rescue
Image 84Killdeer at the South Cape May Meadows
Image 85Three ring-billed gulls in Red Hook
Image 86Fish crow cawing in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Image 87Female hooded merganser resting on the Central Park Reservoir
Image 88American robin
Image 89Great black-backed gull in Quogue, NY
Image 90Black-capped chickadee at a feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 91American goldfinch in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 92Hermit thrush at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Image 93Tropical kingbird in the rain by Lake Arenal
Image 94Palm warbler in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 95Eastern wood pewee in Central Park
Image 96Mandarin duck drake in eclipse plumage in Royal Lazienki Park
Image 97Apricot Mandarin duckling in Royal Lazienki Park
Image 98American robin making a dog whistle-like alarm call in Prospect Park
Image 99Mute swan cygnet pontoon on a duckweed-covered pond
Image 100House sparrows in Central Park
Image 101House wren doing its best eel impression guarding its nestbox.
Image 102Red-necked phalarope at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 103Ring-billed gull coming in for an unwelcome landing
Image 104Juvenile yellow-bellied sapsucker in Prospect Park
Image 105Palm warbler perched in Prospect Park
Image 106Rufous motmot, Costa Rica
Image 107Semipalmated sandpiper vocalizing in Queens, NYC
Image 108Snowy egret
Image 109American avocet
Image 110Male northern cardinal in Central Park
Image 111White-breasted nuthatch on a suet feeder in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 112Male northern shoveler in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 113Great blue heron in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 114Juvenile Forster's tern calling for its parent in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 115Close-up of a white-throated sparrow in Central Park
Image 116Tree swallow on a nest box in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 117Least sandpiper in breeding plumage in Queens, NYC
Image 118First winter laughing gull in Riverhead, New York
Image 119Lesser yellowlegs in Queens, NYC
Image 120Golden-crowned kinglet at a banding station
Image 121Golden-crowned kinglet
Image 122Gray catbird watching a hawk fly overhead in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 123Male house sparrow in Prospect Park
Image 124Veery in the Central Park Ramble
Image 125Male northern flicker in Manhattan, NYC
Image 126Semipalmated plover in Queens, NYC
Image 127Brown creeper about to be released at a bird banding station in the United States
Image 128Black-and-white warbler in Prospect Park
Image 129Downy woodpecker with a leaf on its nose in Prospect Park
Image 130Huge 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 131Great blue heron lurching its head back to swallow a brown watersnake in Green Cay Wetlands
Image 132Tufted titmouse perched in Central Park
Image 133Palm warbler in a meadow in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 134Wood duck drake vocalizing in Central Park
Image 135Western kingbird at Bush Terminal Park
Image 136Western tanager which popped up in NYC, far from its usual range
Image 137A rescued American kestrel that couldn't be released so is now serving as an "ambassador" bird
Image 138Eastern wood pewee in Prospect Park
Image 139Green heron in Prospect Park
Image 140Warbling vireo singing in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 141European starlings on a birdhouse on Staten Island
Image 142Lesser yellowlegs wading at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 143Red-tailed hawk yearbook photo, class of 2022, Central Park
Image 144Northern cardinal female in Central Park
Image 145Immature cooper's hawk in Prospect Park
Image 146Northern mockingbird on a fence in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Image 147Redhead in Central Park
Image 148Ruby-crowned kinglet in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 149Piping plover chick in Queens, New York
Image 150American tree sparrow in Central Park
Image 151Ovenbird in Prospect Park
Image 152Snowy egret in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 153Female/immature Baltimore oriole in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 154Bay-breasted warbler in Central Park
Image 155Yellow-bellied sapsucker in Central Park
Image 156Ring-billed gull in flight over Red Hook, Brooklyn
Image 157Dark-eyed junco in Brooklyn
Image 158Immature mute swan in Prospect Park
Image 159Blue jay fledgling calling for its parent in Green-Wood Cemetery
Featured Pictures - everything else
Image 1Female Huron sachem in Brooklyn, NYC
Image 2Saint Christopher Street in Valletta
Image 3Clouded sulphur in Brooklyn, NYC
Image 4Razor clamshell dress by Alexander McQueen from spring/summer 2001, in the Sleeping Beauties exhibition at The Met
Image 5Pipevine swallowtail
Image 6Common buckeye in Eagle Creek Park, Indianapolis
Image 7California sea lion nap time at La Jolla Cove
Image 8Male familiar bluet
Image 9Male monarch butterfly on Tithonia
Image 10Monarch butterfly caterpillar on butterfly weed
Image 11Twice-stabbed stink bug on meadow anemone
Image 12Defunct Chestnut Hill Pumping Station in Boston
Image 13Strawberry poison dart frog in Costa Rica
Image 14Red admiral butterfly on purple coneflower in Brooklyn Bridge Park
Image 15A mural of patients in the long-defunct Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
Image 16Black Lives Matter mural in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Image 17Condenser at the defunct Chestnut Hill Pumping Station
Image 18Familiar bluet in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
Image 19Old Hook Mill
Image 20Memorial to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting, taken at the Stonewall Inn just after it was designated part of a National Monument
Image 21An island (with ospreys) in Trustom Pond in the fog
Image 22TWA Hotel
Image 23Hell Gate Bridge
Image 24Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond
Image 25Large milkweed bug
Image 26White (eucistic) eastern gray squirrel perched on a tree in Prospect Park
Image 27Raccoon in Central Park
Image 28Bee balm seedhead
Image 29Algal mat in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 30Eastern gray squirrel in Central Park
Image 31Cattlianthe Gold Digger ‘Orglade's Mandarin’ orchid
Image 32Lower Manhattan panorama
Image 33Group photo of four pears
Image 34Open Ocean exhibit at Monterey Bay Aquarium
Image 35Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Katowice
Image 36Two juvenile Nubian ibex
Image 37Redbeckia occidentalis
Image 38Bow Bridge in Central Park (panorama)
Image 39Jade vine (not made of candy)
Image 40Left 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 41Fork-tailed bush katydid close-up in Walland, Tennessee
Image 42Daubeny's water lily
Image 43Small milkweed bug in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 44Male zabulon skipper in Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 45Makhtesh Ramon
Image 46Meadow in the morning in the Great Smoky Mountains (with namesake smoke)
Image 47Sasheer Zamata at a Time's Up event during the Tribeca Film Festival
Image 48Triq San Patrizju facing Basilica Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Valletta, Malta
Image 49Magnolia x veitchii bud
Image 50The Seaside Sanatorium in Connecticut
Image 51Maroon Bells
Image 52A mural of patients in the long-defunct Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
Image 53Moss-covered oak trees in the Bothe-Napa Valley State Park
Image 54Bluebells in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 55Ash tree behind a columbarium in Mount Auburn Cemetery
Image 56Quogue Village Wetlands Preserve
Image 57Stata Center at MIT
Image 58Abandoned van by Gerritsen Creek
Image 59Male eastern amberwing dragonfly in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 60Lincoln Center during Pride at dusk
Image 61Salix catkins
Image 62Composite of a clementine with/without peel
Image 63Pier 66 and Hudson Yards
Image 64Eastern cicada killer perched on a black-eyed susan
Image 65Ship 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 66Eastern chipmunk with stuffed cheeks in Prospect Park
Image 67Castle Square, Warsaw
Image 68Rice paper butterfly with light shining through in Butterfly World, Florida
Image 69One World Trade Center through the Oculus
Image 70Hudson Yards in New York, taken from the top of Hudson Commons (9-frame panorama)
Image 71Red squirrel in Royal Lazienki Park
Image 72Fulton Center skylight
Image 73The Oculus
Image 74Pyrosoma atlanticum. Took me a while to figure out what on earth this was. Found in a tidepool in Monterey.
Image 75Optical illusion on the floor of the Florence Cathedral
Image 76Sarracenia leucophylla
Image 77Eastern cottontail portrait in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 78Pond sliders (red and yellow) and a river cooter fighting for basking space
Image 79Pearl crescent on purple coneflower
Image 80American lady butterfly in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 81Mantled howler monkey with baby in Costa Rica
Image 82Sukkah at Congregation Emanu-El of New York
Image 83Moschino fall 2014 ready-to-wear ensemble in the Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibit at the Met
Image 84Northern flatid planthopper nymph
Image 85Great golden digger wasp in Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 86Baird's tapir mother with baby in Costa Rica
Image 87Quarry in Makhtesh Ramon
Image 88Female eastern amberwing
Image 89Orchard orbweaver
Image 90Boston Public Garden
Image 91Monarch butterfly
Image 92Immature male blue dasher
Image 93Florence seen from the Duomo terrace
Image 94Tiger bee fly
Image 95RJ Palacio
Image 96Juvenile Nubian ibex on a wall at the edge of Makhtesh Ramon
Image 97Staszic Palace
Image 98White (leucistic) eastern gray squirrel with a peanut
Image 99Alexander 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 100Abandoned car in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 101Northern elephant seals in Ano Nuevo, California
Image 102Abandoned building in Floyd Bennett Field
Image 103Eldridge Street Synagogue
Image 104Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco (18-frame panorama)
Image 105Panorama of the once-active waterfront of Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Image 106Maroon Bells. Easily one of the most awe-inspiring natural scenes I've experienced.
Image 107Burberry rainbow cape at the Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibition
Image 108Waldemarsviken in Stockholm
Image 109Frizzle sizzle
Image 110Nine-banded armadillo in Costa Rica
Image 111Gaillardia
Image 112Toronto Reference Library interior from the top floor
Image 113Ceiling mosaic in the Surrogate's Courthouse
Image 114Coney Island Mermaid Parade
Image 115Male elephant seal resting between fights in Ano Nuevo
Image 116Panorama of the Apennine Colossus in Tuscany
Image 117Arenal volcano
Image 118City Hall Station in Manhattan, abandoned since 1945 because it looked cool but didn't
Image 119Jun Takahashi dress for Undercover in the Sleeping Beauties exhibition at the Met
Image 120Prospect Park Vale of Cashmere covered in lesser celandine, with a leucistic white squirrel in the distance
Image 121Duomo Firenze terrace
Image 122Male tiger swallowtail butterfly in Central Park (missing its tails)
Image 123Green iguana panorama in Palm Beach County
Image 124Proboscis bats in Alajuela Province, Costa Rica
Image 125A cavapoo dog chasing a maltipoo dog with a ball
Image 126Window in a cafe in San Gimignano, Italy
Image 127Camp: Notes on Fashion at the Met
Image 128Comme des Garcons at the Met
Image 129Northern dog-day cicaca exuvia on a flower in Green-Wood Cemetery
Image 130Blue dasher with Arrenurus water mites in Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Image 131A [pretty dodgy] bridge along a cliff path at the edge of Makhtesh Ramon
Image 132Rooftop farm on the Lower East Side
Image 133Wonder Wheel sign on Coney Island
Image 134Eastern amberwing
Image 135Monarch butterfly
Image 136Red-legged grasshopper feeding on a flower in Tennessee
Image 137Crocuses in early spring.
Image 138Coney Island Mermaid Parade (no, this is not a picture of Rhododendrites)
Image 139Hell Gate Bridge walking path on Randall's Island
Image 140Chinese mantis ootheca in Marine Park, Brooklyn
Image 141Coleus
Image 142The Dyker Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn is known for lots of elaborate Christmas lights, earning the nickname "Dyker Lights"
Image 143Pond sliders in Prospect Park
Image 144Glass 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 145Bigfin reef squid at Monterey Bay Aquarium
Image 146Hell Gate Bridge, with a scow being towed along the Hell Gate section of the East River
Image 147Manhattan at night, looking north from Rockefeller Center
Image 148California 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 149Sunset sky over Governors Island, NYC (panorama)
Image 150Crook Point Bascule Bridge in Providence. It's been stuck in the open position for 50 years. A local landmark, but slated for destruction soon.

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