Urban Neighbors Resources:
Checklist

Historical Neighbors
Street and Backyard Neighbors
Park and Green Places Neighbors
Shore and Wetlands Neighbors
Salt and Freshwater Neighbors
Tiny Neighbors
Unwelcome Neighbors
Occasional and Unexpected Neighbors

Below is a list of items on display in the exhibition Urban Neighbors: Images of New York City Wildlife (October 11, 2002 - Febuary 1, 2003). The separate pages of the checklist correspond to the different sections into which the exhibition was organized.

Street and Backyard Neighbors

Animals that live in the "concrete jungle," and those that visit lawns and backyards, with special attention to the common pigeon.

Bird nestlings
Cover for The New Yorker, May 8, 1954; illustration by William Steig
NYPL, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New Yorker Covers Collection, Gift of E. J. Kahn, Jr.

Birds
Cover for The New Yorker, April 14, 1945; illustration by Helen E. Hokinson
NYPL, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New Yorker Covers Collection, Gift of E. J. Kahn, Jr.

Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura)
Color reproductions of watercolor drawing by John Abbot
In: J. Abbot, John Abbot’s Birds of Georgia: Selected Drawings from the Houghton Library, Harvard University. Introduction and commentary by Vivian Rogers-Price (Savannah: Library of Georgia: Beehive Foundation, 1997)
NYPL, General Research Division

European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
Reproduction of illustration by Wilfrid S. Bronson
In: W. S. Bronson, Starlings (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1948)
NYPL, General Research Division

European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
Hand-colored lithograph by John Gould and William Hart
From: J. Gould, The Birds of Great Britain. Vol. 3 of 5 (London, 1862–73)
NYPL, Rare Books Division, Stuart Collection

House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Hand-colored lithograph after Daniel Giraud Elliot
In: D. G. Elliot, The New and Heretofore Unfigured Species of Birds of North America. Vol. 1 of 2 (New York, 1869)
NYPL, Rare Books Division, Stuart Collection

American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
Reproduction of illustration by Joan Waltermire
In: Lawrence Kilham, The American Crow and the Common Raven (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1989)
NYPL, General Research Division

Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
Engraving with etching in two states: uncolored, and color-printed and hand-retouched, after Jacques Barraband
In: François Levaillant, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de paradis et des rolliers…. Vol. 1 of 2 (Paris, 1806)
NYPL, Rare Books Division, Stuart Collection

House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis)
Hand-colored lithograph after George G. White
In: John Cassin, Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Part 3 of 10 (Philadelphia, 1856)
NYPL, George Arents Collection of Books in Parts

American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
Cover for The New Yorker, March 14, 1959; illustration by Aaron Birnbaum
NYPL, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New Yorker Covers Collection, Gift of E. J. Kahn, Jr.

American Goldfinch (Carduelis trista): 1. Male, 2. Female
Hand-colored etching by François-Nicolas Martinet from his drawing
In: George Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, Planches enluminées d’histoire naturelle par Martinet, executées par Daubenton…. Vol. 1 of 3 (Paris, 1765–80)
NYPL, Rare Books Division

Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)
Reproduction of painting by Don Eckelberry
In: Robert Stell Lemmon, Our Amazing Birds: The Little-known Facts About Their Private Lives. With 102 paintings in black and white by Don R. Eckelberry (Garden City, N.Y.: American Garden Guild and Doubleday, 1952)
NYPL, General Research Division

Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Male) (Archilochus colubris)
Color-printed and hand-retouched engraving with etching after Jean-Gabriel Prêtre
From: René-Primevère Lesson, Les trochilidées, ou Les colibris et les oiseaux-mouches (Paris, 1832–33)
NYPL, Rare Books Division

Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Male) (Archilochus colubris)
Reproductions of color photographs by Robert A. Tyrrell
In: Esther Q. Tyrrell, Hummingbirds, Their Life and Behavior: A Photographic Study of the North American Species (New York: Crown, 1985)
NYPL, General Research Division

Yellow-shafted Flicker (Colaptes auratos auratus)
Hand-colored etching by François-Nicolas Martinet from his drawing
In: George Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, Planches enluminées d’histoire naturelle par Martinet, executées par Daubenton…. Vol. 3 of 3 (Paris, 1765–80)
NYPL, Rare Books Division

White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) and Brown Creeper (Certhia americana)
Reproductions of color photographs
In: Robert Burton, National Audubon Society North American Birdfeeder Handbook. Rev. American ed. (New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1995)
NYPL, General Research Division

Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) and American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
Reproductions of photographs by Eric J. Hosking
In: E. J. Hosking, Eric Hosking’s Birds: Fifty Years of Photographing Wildlife (London: Pelham, 1979)
NYPL, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Art and Architecture Collection

Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
Peregrine Falcon in New York City
Gouache and digital (Adobe Photoshop) print on watercolor paper by Frank Ippolito, 1995, 1997
Illustration for MTA subway and bus poster commissioned by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Courtesy of Frank Ippolito

Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
Peregrine Nest on Met-Life Building, New York City
Photograph by Michael J. Feller, 1992
Courtesy of Michael J. Feller

Domestic Cat (Felis catus)
Photograph by Charles Pratt, made for Philip Ressner’s At Night (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1967)
NYPL, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Photography Collection

Feral Domestic Cat (Felis catus)
Reproduction of drawing by George Herriman
In: Don Marquis, Archy Does His Part (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1935)
NYPL, General Research Division

Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
Hand-colored lithograph after John James Audubon
In: J. J. Audubon and John Bachman, The Quadrupeds of North America. Part 2 of 31 (New York, 1849–54)
NYPL, George Arents Collection of Books in Parts

Raccoon (Procyon lotor)
Reproduction of drawings by Ernest Thompson Seton, signed "E.T.S. 1886"
In: E. T. Seton, Lives of Game Animals: An Account of Those Land Animals in America, North of the Mexican Border…. Vol. 2 of 4 (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1925–28)
NYPL, General Research Division

Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
Hand-colored engraving after John Abbot
In: James Edward Smith, The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia…. Vol. 1 of 2 (London, 1797)
NYPL, Rare Books Division

Rock Dove (Columba livia) and Lion (Panthera leo)
Pigeon on New York Public Library Lion
Photograph by Ben Asen, December 2001
Courtesy of Ben Asen

Rock Dove (Columba livia)
Pigeons/ *spread disease/ *destroy flower beds/ *leave leftovers for rats/ Please do not feed them
Wood or composite sign displayed in Bryant Park and on the Fifth Avenue plaza of The New York Public Library at 42nd Street
Bryant Park Development Corporation, 2000
Courtesy of Bryant Park Development Corporation

Rock Dove (Columba livia)
Color-printed and hand-retouched engraving with etching after Mme Knip (Antoinette Pauline de Courcelles)
In: Mme Knip, Les pigeons [1st ed.; first published 1808] (Paris, 1811)
NYPL, Rare Books Division, Stuart Collection

Rock Dove (Columba livia)
Family photographs, Riverside Park, Manhattan, 1943
Private Collection

Rock Dove (Columba livia)
Pigeons on Sidewalk, Central Park West
Photograph by Mary LeCroy, from the American Museum of Natural History exhibition Up in Central Park: Birds and Birders, 1997, curated by LeCroy
Courtesy of Mary LeCroy

Rock Dove (Columba livia) and Lion (Panthera leo)
"It’s a Jungle Out There"
Cover for The New Yorker, June 3, 2002; illustration by Harry Bliss
NYPL, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New Yorker Covers Collection

Rock Dove (Columba livia)
Pigeons and Trash Cans, NYC 1950’s
Photograph by Walter Silver
NYPL, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Photography Collection

Rock Dove (Columba livia)
Pigeon on Ice. Central Park, 1950’s
Photograph by Walter Silver
NYPL, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Photography Collection