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Information on this page is taken from the book "Exploring the Other Island" by John Turner, Long Island naturalist.

Places to find

Plovers, Terns

& Skimmers

Breezy Point Cooperative

(extreme s/w Queens)

Silver Point Park (Hempstead)

Jones Beach State Park

(West end & Short Beach)

Eaton's Neck (Huntington)

Stony Brook Harbor

Shirley Marina (Brookhaven)

(west side of Wm.Floyd Parkway

   just north of the bay)

Cupsogue County Park

(Southampton east to Shinnecock)

Shinnecock East County Park

  (Southampton)

Cedar Point County Park

  (East Hampton)

Cedar Beach County Park

  (Southold)

KEY TIMES:

Piping Plovers:  Mid-March to

    early September

Little, Common & Roseate Terns -

    early May to mid-September

Black Skimmers -

    early May to mid-September

Places to find

Ospreys

Cedar Beach County Park - Southold

Cedar Point County Park - East Hamtpon

Connetquot River State Park Preserve - Oakdale

Goldsmith's Inlet County Park - Peconic

Hubbard County Park - Flanders

Mashamack Preserve - The Nature Conservancy, Shelter Island

Morton National Wildlife Refuge - Noyac

Northwest Harbor County Park - East Hampton

Orient Point Causeway - including Hashomomack Pond in Orient

Ram Island Causeway - Shelter Island

Terrells River County Park - Center Moriches

Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge - Shirley

KEY TIMES:

Ospreys arrive in late March and depart in late October.

Places to find

Songbirds

Forest Park - Queens

Prospect Park - Brooklyn

Greenwood Cemetary - Brooklyn

Jamaica Bay Refuge

Hempstead State Park

Jones Beach State Park - area around Zach's Bay & Hedge Row immediately south of Coast Guard Station

Central Park - Manhattan

KEY TIMES:

mid-April until mid-May

early morning & late afternoon