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

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