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The Urban Audubon The newsletter of New York City Audubon S UMMERWinter 20152014 // VolumeVolume XXXVXXXVI NNo.o. 42 THE URBAN AUDUBON CountingCounting BirdsBirds inin NewNew YorkYork CityCity NorthNorth BrotherBrother IslandIsland JamaicaJamaica BayBay ShorebirdShorebird FestivalFestival Summer 2015 1 63502_NYC_UA Summer .indd 1 5/12/15 6:51 AM NYC AUDUBON MISSION & VISION Mission: NYC Audubon is a grassroots Bird’s-Eye View Kathryn Heintz community that works for the protection of wild birds and habitat in the five boroughs, improving the quality of life for all New Yorkers. ©Christopher Palladino ito” and “Linda” have landed. After more Vision: NYC Audubon envisions a day when birds and people in the “V than 200 years, a pair five boroughs enjoy a healthy, livable of bald eagles has nested within the habitat. five boroughs. Staten Island birder THE URBAN AUDUBON Seth Wollney reported the nest to us Editors Lauren Klingsberg & this past April—and within hours Marcia T. Fowle of our releasing the story, the media Managing Editor Tod Winston Newsletter Committee Lucienne Bloch, had jumped on it. The return of Ned Boyajian, Suzanne Charlé, Diane this signature raptor to New York Darrow, Lee Frankel, Catherine Heller, City underscores the best of the Mary Jane Kaplan, Abby McBride, conservation movement, as many of Sarah McGullam, Jennifer Rauch, Don Riepe, Carol Peace Robins us grew up fearing there would be no bald eagles for our children to see. Printing & Mailing Kase Printing, Inc. Following sharp population Design Whitehouse & Company Art Director Christina Rubin declines in the 19th and 20th Publisher NYC Audubon centuries, bald eagles recovered enough following the 1972 ban on DDT to be removed from the list of threatened and THE URBAN AUDUBON is published four times per year (spring, summer, endangered species in 2007. But they are still at risk. In January, a bill was introduced to fall, and winter) by New York City Congress seeking to “update” the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and the Bald and Audubon Society, Inc. Golden Eagle Protection Act of 1940 in order to support what is termed the “All-of-the- Above Energy Approach.” As introduced, the CLEAN Energy Producers Act of 2015 BOARD OF directors President Harrison D. Maas (H.R.493) substantively weakens the existing restraints and restrictions on accidental or Executive Vice President David Speiser incidental killing of bald and golden eagles and migratory birds. It is important that this Vice President Richard T. Andrias proposed legislation be defeated or at least amended to ensure the conservation and protection Treasurer John Shemilt Secretary Marsilia A. Boyle of eagles along with all of our nation’s birds. NYC Audubon and many of our partners in bird Immediate Past President Oakes Ames conservation are tracking this bill’s progress, and I encourage you to join us. Directors Robert Bate, Clifford Case, The media attention garnered by the eagles’ nesting location offers us a context for Judy Craig, Alexander Ewing, Andrew Farnsworth, Marcia T. Fowle, Catherine sharing our work on other species of conservation concern. Though not as iconic as our Schragis Heller, Lynne Hertzog, national symbol, no less important are the oystercatchers, red knots, common terns, snowy Sarah Jeffords, Jeffrey Kimball, Lauren egrets, and millions of migrating land birds that use New York City’s urban habitat. This Klingsberg, Lawrence Levine, Eugene issue of shares highlights of that ongoing work. Be inspired. Join us for Nardelli, Fredric Spar, Tom Stephenson The Urban Audubon a seasonal walk, birding trip, or community volunteer event this summer. I look forward to ADVISORY COUNCIL seeing you out in the field! Sarah Grimké Aucoin, Drianne Benner, Dr. Claude Bloch, Albert K. Butzel, Rebekah Creshkoff, Andrew Darrell, Joseph H. Ellis, Mary Jane Kaplan, CONSERVATION PROGRAM UPDATE AND ANNUAL MEETING Robert J. Kimtis, Kimberly Kriger, Janice By Susan Elbin, PhD, and Conservation Staff Laneve, Pamela Manice, Mary Tyler Wednesday, June 10, 6pm Moore, Peter Rhoades Mott, Dorothy The Arsenal, Central Park, Fifth Avenue at 64th Street, Third-Floor Gallery M. Peteet, Don Riepe, Lewis Rosenberg, James R. Sheffield NYC Audubon conducts scientific monitoring in all five boroughs to understand how birds are using our urban environment and how this environment affects them, via EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Project Safe Flight, our Jamaica Bay program, and our Harbor Herons project. Join us Kathryn Heintz as Susan Elbin and research staffers Darren Klein, Debra Kriensky, and Tod Winston provide updates on what this research has taught us in the past year. Our board election will precede the meeting. Snacks and refreshments will be provided. All lectures are free and open to the public. NYC Audubon’s lecture series has RECYCLED Supporting responsible use of forest resources been made possible by the support of Claude and Lucienne Bloch. 2 www.nycaudubon.org 63502_NYC_UA Summer .indd 2 5/12/15 6:51 AM In This Issue Summer 2015 © N YC Audubon NYC AUDUBON 71 West 23rd Street Suite 1523 New York, NY 10010 Tel: 212-691-7483 Fax: 646-606-3301 www.nycaudubon.org Cover Photograph: Yellow-Crowned Night-Heron ©François Portmann Small Banner Photographs: Susan Elbin, Steve Nanz, and Don Riepe *This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). 6 © F Features rançois Portmann 6 Counting Birds in New York City by Susan Elbin, PhD 7 Jamaica Bay Shorebird Festival at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge 8 Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor) by Tod Winston 7 9 North Brother Island © by Suzanne Charlé N YC Audubon 14 Book Excerpt: Field Guide to the Neighborhood Birds of New York City 16 Favorite Bird Websites by Jennifer Rauch 17 Big John’s Pond, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge by Don Riepe 9 17 “It’s Your Tern” Festival © 18 Birder’s Report from the Field: Vagrant Birds in the New York City Area D on R by Dr. Claude Bloch iepe 20 The Fall Roost Departments 4 Conservation Notes 13 National/International Trips 4 Volunteer! 18 News & Notes 17 8 Book Review 19 Acknowledgments 10 Events and Adventures Summer 2015 3 63502_NYC_UA Summer .indd 3 5/12/15 6:51 AM Conservation Notes ummer is an exciting and busy time we hope to get more students engaged in our Project Safe Flight: Stopover Habitat for the conservation staff here at NYC efforts in the coming year. Results from this The Urban Oasis, our native plant garden SAudubon. With thanks to continued spring will be available on our website later in McGolrick Park, survived the harsh winter funding from the Leon Levy Foundation, this summer. Program and Advocacy Manager (for the most part), and plants have started Patagonia, and the Williams Companies, Darren Klein was instrumental in getting our to bloom. Long-time Field Technician Ann Inc., and continued support from our NYC newly launched D-Bird website (www.d-bird. Seligman is leading the effort this year as our Audubon members and volunteers, we will be org) up and running. The site has been an “Garden Guardian.” We did a second round of adding some new initiatives in line with our effective way for us to learn about collisions planting earlier in May to fill in what didn’t two main programs, Project Safe Flight and occurring outside our regular monitoring make it, as well as some maintenance to make Waterbirds of the New York Harbor. routes. Over 50 dead or injured birds had sure our plants thrive this spring and summer. already been reported to us this year by the Many of the plants may look like little twigs Project Safe Flight: Bird Collision time spring migration was starting to gear up. now, but with some “TLC,” these plants will Monitoring These data, in conjunction with our Project continue to establish themselves and grow. This spring, we continued monitoring at Safe Flight monitoring data, are helping us In 2014, we conducted several pre-planting some high-risk collision sites such as Bryant understand more about bird collisions in New biodiversity surveys, and found 11 species of Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and York City. Our glass-testing project with the birds in the park: American crow, blue jay, we started monitoring at some new ones, such American Bird Conservancy, the Wildlife common grackle, European starling, fish crow, as the Freedom Tower. We also expanded into Conservation Society, Fordham University, hermit thrush, house sparrow, mourning dove, Queens this spring, monitoring a collection of NJ Audubon, and Ennead Architects has also northern cardinal, rock pigeon, and white- three neighboring buildings in Long Island been up and running. Under the skilled hands throated sparrow. We also observed arthropods City that has reportedly been the site of many of Field Technician Anikó Totha, migratory such as butterflies, moths, millipedes, and a collisions in the past. Our monitoring at birds are teaching us about the properties of variety of bees. In the garden’s second year, we Columbia University is continuing as well, and glass: what birds can and cannot see. will continue these surveys in order to monitor Volunteer! ork in NYC Audubon’s Project Safe Flight TRIBUTE IN LIGHT The North Channel Bridge friendly office or in the field During spring and fall, migrant MONITORING area, used by species like the Wand make a difference for birds confront many hazards as Friday, September 11, American oystercatcher, is also the City’s wildlife. There are many they pass through New York City. begins at 8pm a stone’s throw away from the ways to help. If interested in any of Volunteers are needed to monitor With the Municipal Art Society Harbor Heron Islands, the newly the projects listed below, contact us at buildings weekly for bird collisions, Each year a tireless group of restored Elders Point Marsh, and [email protected] or rescue injured birds, and record volunteers monitors the Tribute in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.
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