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| Information on this page is taken from the book "Exploring the Other Island" by John Turner, Long Island naturalist. |
| OTHER SPRING BIRDING SPOTS |
| 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 Inlet) 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. |
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| 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 |
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