The William T. Davis Wildlife Refuge, Staten Island

Travis Avenue, off Richmond Avenue (map)

http://www.sigreenbelt.org/About/WTDavis/wtdavis.htm

Freshkills Park, Staten Island

This Sunday: Bird-watching tour at Freshkills Park

There are still seats available for this Sunday's 10 am bird-focused bus and walking tour of the Freshkills Park site.  Our bird tours are held bimonthly and are jointly led by park planners from our office and naturalists from the Staten Island Museum.  They last about two hours and go into the details of the park plan as well.  Lots of birds out this time of year: hawks, turkey vultures, osprey, killdeer, hooded mergansers, ducks, geese and more.  If you're interested in attending, contact Martha at martha.powers@parks.nyc.gov.

The osprey who have nested at the site are now tending to their nestlings.

May 26, 2009 Posted by freshkillspark | FKP | ecology, events, Freshkills Park, wildlife | Leave a Comment

*the official New York City homepage for Freshkills Park HERE.

Staten Island Greenbelt

http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_about/parks_divisions/nrg/brochures/pages/staten1.html

will find not only city birds, commonly found in all the boroughs, but farm country birds, such as indigo buntings, white-eyed vireo, woodcock, and northern orioles, all usually found in rural areas. Winter birding is particularly rewarding in the Greenbelt because of its extensive conifer plantings, which offer shelter to such birds of prey as owls (great-horned, long-eared, screech, and barn), the red shouldered hawk, and the kestrel, the smallest falcon native to this area.