NYC bird watchers exhilarated over anticipated fall migration boom
this weekend — as hundreds of thousand of birds pass through the Big Apple on their way south for the winter during a major spike in migration.“I’m super excited. If someone tells me it’s going to be a great day, it really just gives you that extra push to get out there,” Amy Cook, 56, of Park Slope, told The Post.
“There’s going to be this really favorable set of like cooler air temperatures, tailwinds or wind blowing out of the north and west. And that’s what’s in the very most proximate sense, bringing this about,” said Andrew Farnsworth, a scientist in the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, which collects BirdCast data.
“The reason the city parks are so amazingly important is because the birds have no other options. At the end of the night, this is it. There’s nowhere else,” the Princeton bird lecturer told The Post, pointing out that the birds follow the coastline during migration.“Most New Yorkers have no idea. When I talk to civilians in the park, they’re like, ‘Yeah, there are birds in the park, pigeons’ — no! There could be 100 different species in the park in a day.
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