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

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