Biodiversity planning in NYC and PLANYC Plan

From: Marielle Anzelone


To: Marielle Anzelone

Sent: Wed, Dec 8, 2010 10:13 pm

Subject: Biodiversity & PlaNYC thru 12/31 only!





Dear Friends and Colleagues,



Biodiversity is now on the radar of both City Council and the Mayor’s Office. Our collective input can shape how biodiversity is addressed by New York City government in future.



Last month, I was privileged to give testimony before NYC Council regarding 4 bills on invasive species and sustainable landscapes: http://bit.ly/geOSAb



I also had the pleasure of meeting with the Mayor's Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability (responsible for PlaNYC). Biodiversity is a priority, but its inclusion is not a guarantee. They are open to suggestions only through December. *Revisions for PlaNYC 2.0 start in January!*



Please consider letting them know that NYC's nature is a crucial consideration by:





Attending one of the last 2 community meetings:







Eastern Queens:

Thursday, December 9th, 2010** tomorrow!

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Bayside High School

32-24 Corporal Kennedy Street







South Brooklyn:

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

St. Michael’s RC Church, 352 42nd Street

Enter through auditorium on 43rd Street







2. Sign the petition and share your stories and photos about NYC nature here:



http://nycbiodiversity.tumblr.com





3. Text your idea to 917-791-3064 (the PLANYC mobile input unit) and fill in the blank “One idea to create a greener, greater New York City is to ____”



4. Share your comments and suggestions on my Huffington Post op-ed, “More Than Million Trees, Where is the Nature in PlaNYC?” Let me know what more we could be doing. What are biodiversity policy initiatives that you believe are working?



This is such an exciting opportunity! I hope we can make our voices heard.



Happy Holidays,



Marielle

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NYTIMES 11/26 article on Floyd Bennett

November 26, 2010

On an Edge of Brooklyn, New Hopes for a Park in Neglect

By TIM STELLOH

The hangar on the edge of Floyd Bennett Field has the familiar, post-apocalyptic look of urban decay, with “Danger Keep Out” spray painted in red across one of the building’s doors.

Many of the door panels have disappeared; so has most of the hangar’s roof. Inside, a forest of weeds has sprouted through the floor. Sections of guardrail lie on the ground beside large drain pipes, rotted pallets and discarded road signs.

This building — just steps from Flatbush Avenue and part of what maps identify as the “Hangar Row Historic District”— is an example of what Theresa Scavo, who grew up in the area and is chairwoman of Brooklyn Community Board 15, often refers to as the “total neglect” of this historic site, home to New York City’s first municipal airport and for almost four decades part of the Gateway National Recreation Area.

“It’s always been like this,” Ms. Scavo said. “It’s just, every time you pass, it looks a little worse.”

But if Floyd Bennett’s many users, boosters and officials can agree on a vision of the field’s future, better years may be ahead.

A blue-ribbon panel organized last April by Representative Anthony D. Weiner and Senator Charles E. Schumer has been asked to make recommendations for the park’s future. It will focus on the “overall vision” for the field, along with practical fixes, said Robert Pirani, a senior planner with Regional Plan Association, which is working with the panel.

The recommendations will be just that — ideas that could be incorporated into a larger National Park Service plan with the intention of making Floyd Bennett “worthy of being a national park,” as Mr. Pirani put it. Financing for the proposals is unclear.

The panel, which has two chairwomen, Marian S. Heiskell, a longtime conservationist, and Deborah Shanley, dean of the School of Education at Brooklyn College, is expected to release its report this winter.

Some panel members, park users and advocates have pressed for big and ambitious plans — building a drive-in movie theater or an Olympic-size swimming pool, for instance — while others have argued for more low-key, pragmatic repairs: erecting clearer signs, improving transportation to the field and within its more than 1,000 acres, and fixing a boat launch with potholes so large you can see the rebar below.

The park already has an archery range, a campground, protected grasslands, a private sports complex and a community garden. It is also used by fishermen, cyclists, kayakers, a large model airplane club and a historic aircraft renovation project.

There is “broad unanimity” among panel members that the park can be improved while keeping these multiple uses, Mr. Pirani said. The challenge is making sure that the recommendations can be addressed in a realistic way, he said.

Linda Canzanelli, the acting superintendent of Gateway National Recreation Area, said the process of improving Floyd Bennett Field has already begun with the restoration of the Ryan Visitor Center — once the airport’s grand terminal and administration building — which a Park Service spokesman described as “the heart” of the park. Work began this year, and the building is expected to reopen in 2012.

Pointing to the success of Aviator, a private sports and recreation complex that opened in 2006 in several run-down hangars, Ms. Canzanelli said the key to fixing the still-crumbling hangars was in public-private partnerships and leases to schools or nonprofit organizations.

“We inherited a bunch of older military buildings, but we don’t have a Department of Defense budget,” she said. “We need to do a better job of reaching out to the public, because the days of big government coming in and solving all the problems are over.”

At a well-attended public hearing in September, the Brooklyn borough president, Marty Markowitz, who is also a panel member, suggested bringing major trade shows to Floyd Bennett, starting a high-end antique fair — similar to the Brimfield Antique Show and Flea Market in Massachusetts — and building a drive-in movie theater.

The last idea drew jeers from Jill Weingarten, a longtime member of the Floyd Bennett Gardens Association and the editor of its newsletter.

“Everyone turned to each other,” Ms. Weingarten recalled, “and I went, ‘Boo.’ ”

One afternoon, Ms. Weingarten tended the tomatoes, jalapeños and water irises in her garden, which is close to nearly 500 other plots. She has had her garden since 1997, and has transformed it into a kind of sanctuary, with a pond, grapevine, barbecue and sunshade. She hesitated at a suggestion to expand the garden, which has a two-year waiting list, to accommodate more plots and urban gardeners.

“I see people who want this place to remain secret and quiet — and in a way you can’t blame them,” she said. “In another way, why not? Why not make it bigger and give people more opportunity?”

Ms. Weingarten said the association had pushed to make solar energy central to the park’s future.

“A lot of the buildings are closed because they can’t pay electricity,” she said. “Then they get vandalized.”

Ms. Scavo had a more modest request for the panel. “Fix what we have,” she said.

Ms. Scavo is just one interested party among many. There is New York City Audubon, which has run a grassland restoration project at the park since the mid-1980s, and has argued for more protections for sparrows, larks and other ground nesting birds that use the property. There is the Pennsylvania Avenue Radio Control Society, a 200-member model airplane flying club that has requested that development projects be kept modest; it has also asked for electrical hook-ups and wireless Internet.

There is the archery range and the Historic Aircraft Restoration Project. There are visitors like Jimmy Reco, 68, and David Davidson, 75, who have spent many mornings over the last 20 years on the park’s eastern shore, fishing, drinking coffee and reading the paper.

The men said the surrounding beaches are no longer plastered with garbage the way they once were — “It was a like a city dump,” Mr. Reco said — but that afternoon there was still plenty of trash around: beer bottles, wine bottles, soda bottles and, eerily, an empty urn from St. Michael’s Cemetery in East Elmhurst.

The scene was sufficiently disturbing to Mr. Reco, who had a simple message for the field’s overseers.

“We need help here,” he said. “S.O.S.”

Update Ridgewood Reservoir

Agency Is Still Weighing Wetland Ruling For Reservoir


Designation Could Alter Park Plans

by Robert Pozarycki

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) remains no closer to making a decision regarding the potential declaration of the Ridgewood Reservoir on the Brooklyn/Queens border as a wetland, according to an agency spokesperson.

“At this time, DEC has not made any determination to map the ponded or vegetated areas within the Ridgewood Reservoir as regulated freshwater wetlands,” said Thomas Panzone in an e-mail to the Times Newsweekly in response to a statement made during Community Board 5’s Oct. 13 meeting that the agency was “90 percent certain” that it would classify the 55-acre site as a wetland.

The co-chairperson of Board 5’s Parks Committee, Steven Fiedler, told board members on Oct. 13 that the statement was made by a DEC representative during a recent meeting convened by State Sen. Joseph Addabbo and community residents regarding the fate of the reservoir.

According to Panzone, “DEC is in communication with New York City Parks and DEP, which have committed to conduct hydrological studies of the reservoir district to determine the current sources of water entering and leaving the reservoir basins.”

“Once these studies are concluded, the [DEC] will determine whether to conduct further studies of the vegetation and make a decision regarding whether to map this area as freshwater wetlands,” Panzone said.

Should the agency declare the reservoir as a wetland, the spokesperson said, the city’s Parks Department would then be required to submit permits to the state agency for any potential improvements it wishes to make in any or all of the basins. All applications would be restricted to “certain regulated future activities in the freshwater wetland or 100-foot freshwater wetland adjacent area.”

“The designation would mean that the city would have to demonstrate, through a permit application, that future uses of the area would be consistent with protection and preser- vation of the wetland resources,” Panzone added. He noted that the Parks Department would maintain responsibility for the management and maintenance of the reservoir if the wetland designation is administered.

Formerly used as the source of drinking water for Brooklyn and Queens, the Ridgewood Reservoir was taken completely out of the city’s water system in the late 1980s. Since being shuttered and left inactive, the site has evolved into a natural habitat filled with a wide assortment of plant and wildlife.

In 2004, the city’s Department of Environmental Protection transferred ownership of the reservoir to the Parks Department. The agency later declared its intention of developing the site—along with the adjacent Highland Park—into one of eight regional parks as part of the PlaNYC 2030 master plan launched by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2007.

Community and environmental activists fought plans initially put forth by the Parks Department to develop athletic fields in one of the reservoir’s three basins as part of a $50 million overhaul. Funds for the project were eventually scaled back due to the fiscal crisis that gripped the city and country in 2008.

Currently, the Parks Department is in the midst of the first phase of improvements to the reservoir, which includes installing new fencing and lighting around the perimeter of the site. The project would not be affected in any way by any potential wetland declaration, it was noted.


Posted By Rob Jett to Save Ridgewood Reservoir at 11/05/2010 09:38:00 AM

Pine Barren Society action on Carmans River

Long Island Pine Barrens Society – November Update


Carmans River Plan Faces Calmer Waters

On October 20, the Society joined Brookhaven Town Supervisor Mark Lesko and other government officials to announce an agreement to protect the Carmans River from intrusive development. The initiative calls for a 90 day time out on all final development decisions surrounding the river. In the interim, a scientific based study will be conducted to analyze cumulative impacts associated with existing and proposed development in the watershed area and define a defensible watershed boundary. A formal Carmans River Study group led by Lee Koppelman, joined by several members of Brookhaven Town, the Central Pine Barrens Commission, the Department of Environmental Conservation and non-governmental stakeholders will draw upon the expertise of an appointed Technical Advisory Group to develop an official Carmans River Watershed Comprehensive Preservation and Management Plan. A final plan is set to be presented to Brookhaven Town Board for consideration of approval in January.

The Carmans River stretches 10 miles from North of Middle Country Road to the Great South Bay. It is designated by New York State as a “Recreational River” and is home to many species of endangered wildlife and native plants.

Society Sues Legislature for Making a Gift of Public Assets for Private Benefit

The Society has filed suit against the Suffolk County Legislature to prevent farmers from building on land where development rights have been sold and purchased by the County with taxpayer’s money. The suit asks that Suffolk prevent farm owners who have sold their development rights from developing on the land nonetheless.

The Society is challenging recent changes to the County’s Agricultural Regulations, which for the first time, explicitly authorizes development on land from which the public has purchased the development rights. It is unconstitutional for government to make a gift of public assets for private benefit, the suit says.



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EPCAL latest bad bews

The story:   http://calvertongrasslands.org/


Please see link to Newsday story below.

http://tinyurl.com/3a6fsu9



Newsday -

Saying it could not develop at Riverhead's Enterprise
Park at Calverton without making substantial changes
to its use, Rechler Equity Partners has pulled out
of its $18-million deal to purchase 300 acres of vacant
land at the town-owned industrial complex. The firm faced
a Friday deadline to sign its contract or pay for an extension.

Town officials said that, with Rechler dropping out, they are
now free to subdivide the property and sell it off in 10- or
15-acre blocks.

articles on extinction

Birds Could Signal Mass Extinction


ScienceDaily (Oct. 12, 2010) — The first detailed measurements of current extinction rates for a specific region have shown that birds are the best group to use to track the losses. The study also reveals Britain may be losing species over ten times faster than records suggest, and the speed of loss is probably increasing: the losses from England alone may exceed one species every two weeks.

The study, by Oxford University researchers, shows that many types of obscure organism in Britain are going extinct at the same rate as the birds -- evidence supporting fears of a global mass extinction. A report of the research is published in an upcoming issue of the journal Biological Conservation as countries prepare to meet in Japan 18-29 October to discuss biodiversity conservation targets.

'Biodiversity loss is arguably much more serious and more permanent than climate change,' said Clive Hambler of Oxford University's Department of Zoology, lead author of the research.

But it's impossible to know if policy targets to reduce the loss are being met without accurate measures of extinction rates. Until now, we had only crude estimates for a very few types of organism. Now we've got evidence that many groups of living things -- lichens, bugs, moths, fish, plants and so on -- are going extinct at a very similar rate to the birds.'

Using Britain's uniquely detailed natural history records, the researchers found that 1-5% of the region's species in many groups were lost since 1800, with higher losses in the Twentieth Century compared to the Nineteenth. Using further data from the USA and across the whole globe, the researchers show that the patterns of extinction in Britain are likely to be typical of those found on land and freshwater elsewhere.

Mr Hambler said: 'The birds are beautiful creatures, but they are also diverse, and many of them are specialised to particular habitats. This makes them sensitive to changes in their environment -- such as loss of mature trees, or the drying out of swampy ground, or coastal development. And what makes them really special for monitoring extinction is that they are also exceptionally easy to study, anywhere in the world -- so we can detect declines in their populations long before we notice losses of the more obscure things like slime moulds or mosses. It's no coincidence they can signal environmental change.'

'The underlying reason for the similarity of extinction rates in birds and the other living things is that habitat loss affects them in the same way. Our work supports the use of birds to indicate extinction rates in Britain, the USA and globally, and they should now be tried in places such as tropical forests where the bulk of other species will never be recorded.'

'The recorded extinctions in any region are just the tip of the iceberg, because there are not enough observers,' said Mr Hambler. For example, in March this year the British government's advisory body, Natural England, reported about 500 species lost from England since 1800. 'The losses reported by Natural England are under 0.5% per century, from England's 55,000 species,' notes Mr Hambler. 'Our research suggests that the actual losses could be over ten times this number, with about one species going extinct in England every fortnight.'

Natural England also reported species losses in England had apparently declined in recent decades, but the Oxford study suggests that this is not the case. Hambler and colleagues found there are about 1000 endangered species on the brink of extinction in Britain -- indeed many of these may already be extinct.

'People tend to be hesitant in declaring extinction, which leads to problems assessing the current rate,' said Mr Hambler. 'Many ancient and important habitats in Britain are threatened today because of human activity and population growth -- whether it's an increase in water use, growing use of wood fuel, or the growth of urban sprawl. Despite conservationists' efforts it's very likely extinction rates will continue to rise in Britain and globally for many years. These losses will impact on human welfare, and I'd say conservation needs a profile and resources even bigger than climate change.'

Alongside studies of birds, the researchers believe that recording rates of habitat loss will provide a good, simple measure of some elements of biodiversity loss.

Mr Hambler said: 'This work strengthens the claim that the world is suffering a mass extinction. We can now be much more confident that across the planet the less conspicuous and less well-known species are going extinct at a similar high rate to that already witnessed in birds, fish and amphibians.'

Journal Reference:

1. Clive Hambler, Peter A. Henderson, Martin R. Speight. Extinction rates, extinction-prone habitats, and indicator groups in Britain and at larger scales. Biological Conservation, 2010; DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.09.004

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An 'Unprecedented' Bat Die-Off Could Devastate U.S. Agriculture


By BRUCE KENNEDY

Posted 9:45 AM 10/12/10 Technology, Economy

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EmailShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on DiggShare on LifestreamMost people don't love bats, but like good health, you'll realize that you miss them after they're gone. Experts believe many species of bats may vanish pretty soon, and their disappearance could bring profound and long-term changes not only to the environment but also to agriculture, landscaping and gardening across North America.


For several years now, scientists have been sounding alarms about a devastating fungus, White-Nose Syndrome (WNS), that has literally decimated bat populations in the Northeastern U.S. The fungus leaves a white substance on the bat's nose, wings and body, and disrupts the bat's hibernation patterns, forcing it to burn through its fat reserves, which quickly leads to starvation. Earlier this year, a survey of the bat population in New Jersey estimated that 90% of that state's bats had been killed off.

"This is on a level unprecedented, certainly in mammals," says Rick Adams, a biology professor at the University of Northern Colorado and a renowned bat expert. "A mass extinction event, a thousand times higher than anything we've seen. It's going through [bat colonies] like wildfire, with 80% to 100% mortality."


"The disease is absolutely devastating, it's unprecedented," says Mylea Bayless, a biologist with Austin, Texas-based Bat Conservation International. "It's causing population declines in wildlife that we haven't seen since the passenger pigeon."

Bayless notes that bats have slow reproductive rates, usually giving birth to just one pup a year. So bat populations, she says, are going to be very slow to recover, "if they ever do recover." The disease, adds Bayless, "is moving at a pace that's astonishing, about 450 miles per year. In four short years, it's now closer to the Pacific Ocean than it is to its point of origination in Albany, N.Y."


Your Billion-Dollar Bug Eaters



You might be saying good riddance, but think again. Bats are the primary predator of night-flying insects. That not only includes pests like mosquitoes but also insects like corn earworm moths and cotton bollworms. In their caterpillar forms, those insects can destroy crops. A 2006 study of several counties in South-Central Texas concluded that the local bat population had an annual value of over $740,000 a year as a pest control -- or up to 29% of the value of the local cotton crop.

A bat eats 60% to 100% of its body-weight in insects every day. Adams says one colony of Mexican free-tailed bats in Colorado's San Luis Valley, an important agricultural region, "pulls about 100 metric tons of insects out of the air in a year." And having bats in agricultural areas, he says, tends to move insects out of those areas, creating less need for dangerous and expensive pesticides.

And like honey bee colonies -- which have also been facing massive die-offs in recent years -- some bats are important pollinators and seed-distributors. Adams says bats are crucial to the reproduction of tropical fruits like mangos, papayas, figs and wild bananas. And in Arizona, bats are the primary pollinators for three large cactus species that support much of the region's ecosystem.

Government and Researchers Fight Back

The fungus associated with WNS is widespread in Europe, but it doesn't affect bats there. No one is sure yet how it became so lethal to North America's bat population -- but there's a possible human element. Scientists says WNS spores have been found on the clothing and gear of people exploring caves containing bat colonies. The pattern of its spread is also inconsistent with bat migration. "It went from Tennessee to Missouri and then to Western Oklahoma," says Adams, "and it doesn't seem like it would be moving like that if it was just bats."

In the meantime, humans are fighting back. Adams is hosting a conference on the crisis later this month in Denver. The event is expected to draw hundreds of bat experts from around the world. The Forest Service is banning visitors to the thousands of caves and abandoned mines that dot the landscape in at least five Rocky Mountain and Great Plains states. And the Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded $1.6 million in grants for WNS research and control.

"But we all know that's a drop in the bucket for a disease that's sweeping the country and killing 95% of an entire group of animals," says Bayless. "For some people, that may seem like money. . .not well-spent, but [what are] the economic and ecological consequences of losing an entire species? A little bit of money spent now will save us in the long term."

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Floyd Bennett grasslands in jeopardy if Brooklyn Borough President Markowitz has his way....

Peter's posting to the NYC/NYS internet listserves:

Dear Birders of Brooklyn,NYC and NYS:



I am bringing you this critical issue to your attention over Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Fields grasslands ( formerly an decommissioned airport) now threatened by potential development discussions ( info also based from the recent Blue Ribbon Panel set up by US Senator Charles Schumer and Congressman Anthony Weiner, which last Tuesday eve I attended a listening session/public hearing at Floyd and Mr Markowitz spoke as well) ). Brooklyn Borough President, Marty Markowitz a NYC elective city official is trying to tell the Federal Gateway National Parks Service to turn it into more recreation amusement emphasis. Floyd Bennett is located on the southeastern part of Brooklyn , NYC, a critical bird migration hotspot where for the few past weeks Buff-breasted Sandpipers were feeding right next to the Aviator Sports complex ( which itself opened the Pandora's box for more potential commercial development ). Mr Markowitz's zeal obviously has no idea of the potential habitat loss and impact to threatened and fragile grass birds that use Floyd Bennett , especially rare birds including RED KNOT(seen on the runway in 2007) and Upland Sandpiper recorded on the Ebird Cornell database ( Check out the list http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ and see "View and Explore Data"). Since 2003, over 215 species have touched down or used Floyd for breeding or migration purposes.The grasslands have been impacted over the years and it needs a buffer perimeter which currently is impacted by overabundance of speeding cars and motorcycles ( the main old airport runway ) using Aviator Sports purposes.

I am hoping you will be deeply concerned and act on Brooklyn Birds' behalf to stop this nonsense and save the last grassland spot in Brooklyn and which grasslands of this size is rare for NYC. This preserve , though it is not pretty in some spots, is a rich bird spot where in recent days also saw Bairds Sandpiper and numerous raptors ( frequent Peregrine Falcon) as well as some wintering owls ( Saw-whet, Long-eared, Snowy sometimes, Barn and on occasions Short-eared) . I hope you will act on behalf of New York City birders. You can contact Mr Markowitz's office or further, contact Gateway NPS administrator ( google Gateway National Park or NYC Harbors Parks ) or the Director of the Interior Ken Salazar. A city official should not delve into Federal natural habitat ( but they do).



Regards,

Peter Dorosh

President

Brooklyn Bird Club



If you want to contact Mr Markowitz's office , go to this website http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/



Check out the following articles from the NEW YORK POST of 9/20 and 9/23



From the NEW YORK POST





Updated: Mon., Sep. 20, 2010, 5:07 PM

Floyd Bennett 'next hot spot'

By RICH CALDER

Last Updated: 5:07 PM, September 20, 2010

Posted: 5:36 AM, September 20, 2010

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz wants the feds to turn Floyd Bennett Field into the next hot green space.

The city made Governors Island and Brooklyn Bridge Park overnight hot spots this summer by boosting transit services there -- especially ferries.

Markowitz said that bringing ferry, water taxi and jitney service to the 1,400-acre former Navy airfield in Mill Basin that's now an underused federal park must be considered. Increasing its limited bus service and creating bike lanes leading to and from it are other options, he said.

He plans to make his pitch tomorrow night during a public hearing on the future of Floyd Bennett Field, the borough's biggest open space and one of the nation's lowest ranked federal parks. It begin 6 pm at Aviator Sports Center on Flatbush Avenue.

The pitch, Markowitz says, will also focus on how Floyd Bennett Field is perfect for hosting “cultural celebrations” and other big events, such as "antique shows" similar to a famous three-week show held annually in Brimfield, Mass. that attracts 6,000 vendors and hundreds of thousands of visitors.

The meeting will be run by a Blue Ribbon Panel created by Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Anthony Weiner to guide the National Park Service draft a plan on how to boost services and cleanup Floyd Bennett Field. Improving transit options and educational opportunities at the park are among the ideas the panel says it plans to review.

Since the park is on the Queens border, a similar meeting will be held in that borough on Sept. 27.

Floyd Bennett Field was the city’s first commercial airport. In 1972, it became part of the federal Gateway National Recreation Area system.

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6:40 PM, September 23, 2010 ι By RICH CALDER

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz wants the feds to turn Brooklyn’s biggest open space into a massive antiques road show.

During a meeting Monday night on the future of Floyd Bennett Field in Mill Basin, Markowitz said the 1,358-acre former Navy airfield is perfect for hosting antique shows similar to a famous three-week show held annually in Brimfield, Mass. that attracts 6,000 vendors and hundreds of thousands of visitors.

“I’m not talking about a flea market,” he later told the Post. “This could be huge.”

His other pitches for the underused site include giving the borough its own drive-in movie theater there and also using the parkland for cultural celebrations and even family reunions.

A blue ribbon panel created by Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Anthony Weiner is pushing the National Parks Service for greater cleanup and to boost transit services and programming at Floyd Bennett Field, which is the lowest-rated federal park in the nation.

About 100 community members convened at the Aviator Sports Center to discuss the park’s future and make recommendations on how to improve.

Among the better ideas brought up at a table of local residents that this reporter sat in on was changing the main entrance to a little-used roadway near heavily-used Aviator, instead of the existing entrance further south on Flatbush Avenue by the Marine Parkway Bridge into the Rockaways.

Others include adding ferry service, increasing bike access and opening up access to the entire waterfront.

A second community meeting will be held Monday at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens.

Go to www.rpa.org/floydbennett for more information on the meeting and the Blue Ribbon Panel.

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I took the liberty of correlating Specis Great Conservation Need ( SGCN) bird species listed by the NYS Dept of Environmental Conservation ( see link above) with the Cornell's EBIRD first sightings list for Floyd Bennett and found that 69 out of 118 SGCN bird species were recorded in Floyd since 2003. Of course this is not counting rare or extralimital bird species like Connecticut Warbler, Ross Goose, etc. not on SGCN. And also what OTHER non bird species on the SGCN seen in Floyd? was there ever a bio blitz done and I think there was one very recent ? hmm, just a thought for more data to present as an logical argument for total PRESERVATION or protection of the core grasslands + a buffer perimeter at least.


That means 58 % of SGCN bird species seen in Floyd Bennett which makes it a avian wonderland. A real treasure we have to fight for before its ruined .It has always been my personal opinion that Floyd ( along with JBWR) should be National Wildlife Refuges , NOT Recreation Area administered by National Parks Service. There is greater protective restrictions as NWR and run by better knowledgeable ecological minded US Fish and Wildlife. Up in Rhode Island, there is a former naval airport called NINIGRET -- like Floyd but administered by USFW and they tore up a runway for grassland restoration !! ( I was there after the tear up during a BBC weekend trip).. Its a question of who is the manager running the place.



Hard to believe some of the more common species we take for granted but check out the SGCN list

http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/9406.html


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Here's the list below from NYSDEC 's SGCN list


American Black Duck

American Golden Plover

American Oystercatcher

American Woodcock ( BREEDING)

Atlantic Brant

Bald Eagle

Barn Owl

Bay-breasted Warbler

Black-crowned Night Heron

Black-bellied Plover

Black Skimmer

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Blue-winged Teal

Blue-winged Warbler

Bobolink

Brown Thrasher

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Canada Warbler

Cattle Egret

Common Goldeneye

Common Nighthawk

Common Loon

Common Tern

Cooper's Hawk

Dickcissel

Dunlin

Eastern Meadowlark

Forster's Tern

Glossy Ibis

Golden-winged Warbler

Grasshopper Sparrow ( used to breed )

Great Egret

Greater Yellowlegs

Greater Scaup

Horned lark

Horned Grebe

Laughing Gull

Least Tern

Lesser Scaup

Little Blue Heron

Long-tailed Duck

Long-eared Owl

Northern Pintail

Northern Harrier ( used to breed)

Osprey

Peregrine Falcon ( formerly ESA species)

Prairie Warbler

RED KNOT ( endangered species)

Red-shouldered Hawk

Red-headed Woodpecker

Red-throated Loon

Ruddy Duck

Sanderling

Scarlet Tanager

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Short-eared Owl

Short-billed Dowitcher

Snowy Egret

Tennessee Warbler

Upland Sandpiper

Vesper Sparrow

Willet

Willow Flycatcher

Wood Thrush

Worm-eating Warbler

Yellow-breasted Chat

Yellow-crowned Night Heron

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FROM EBIRD CORNELL First sightings


Floyd Bennett Field
First Sightings

All-time records

First Sightings, 1900-2010

Species # Observer Location Date

1 Snow Goose 2 Roseanne Caleca Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 28, 2005

2 Ross's Goose 3 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 20, 2009

3 Brant 60 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

4 Canada Goose 17 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

5 Mute Swan 5 Coby Klein Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jun 24, 2004

swan sp. 2 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Feb 18, 2010

6 Wood Duck 2 Coby Klein Floyd Bennett Field (map) Mar 12, 2006

7 Gadwall 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 16, 2006

8 Eurasian Wigeon 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 8, 2006

9 American Wigeon X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 6, 2006

10 American Black Duck 36 Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Feb 5, 2006

American Black Duck x Mallard (hybrid) 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Mar 14, 2010

11 Mallard 2 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

12 Blue-winged Teal 2 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 16, 2006

13 Northern Shoveler X Coby Klein Floyd Bennett Field (map) Mar 12, 2006

14 Northern Pintail 1 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Mar 12, 2008

15 Green-winged Teal 2 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

16 Canvasback 1 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Mar 21, 2008

17 Greater Scaup 1600 Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Feb 5, 2006

18 Lesser Scaup 3 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Dec 19, 2009

Greater/Lesser Scaup 20 Scott Whittle Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 25, 2009

19 Long-tailed Duck X Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Feb 5, 2006

20 Bufflehead X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 6, 2006

21 Common Goldeneye 1 Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Feb 5, 2006

22 Hooded Merganser 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 20, 2009

23 Red-breasted Merganser X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 6, 2006

24 Ruddy Duck 8 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Dec 8, 2007

25 Ring-necked Pheasant 1 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

26 Red-throated Loon 1 Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Mar 4, 2006

27 Common Loon X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 6, 2006

28 Horned Grebe X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 6, 2006

29 Red-necked Grebe 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 1, 2007

30 Northern Gannet 1 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Dec 20, 2008

31 Double-crested Cormorant 10 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

32 Great Cormorant X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 6, 2006

cormorant sp. 3 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 8, 2010

33 Great Blue Heron 1 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

34 Great Egret X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jul 5, 2005

35 Snowy Egret 2 Avi Lewis Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 19, 2006

36 Little Blue Heron 1 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 21, 2008

37 Cattle Egret 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 12, 2007

38 Green Heron 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 12, 2007

39 Black-crowned Night-Heron 5 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

40 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 2 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jun 10, 2007

41 Glossy Ibis 1 Steven Plust Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 13, 2006

42 Turkey Vulture 1 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 30, 2008

43 Osprey 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 16, 2006

44 Bald Eagle 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 6, 2009

45 Northern Harrier 2 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

46 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Oct 1, 2006

47 Cooper's Hawk 1 Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Oct 1, 2006

48 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Nov 7, 2009

49 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Nov 4, 2006

50 Rough-legged Hawk 1 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Dec 15, 2007

51 American Kestrel 6 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

52 Merlin 1 Avi Lewis Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 4, 2006

53 Peregrine Falcon 1 Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 31, 2006

54 American Coot X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 20, 2009

55 Black-bellied Plover X Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 31, 2006

56 American Golden-Plover 1 Heydi Lopes Floyd Bennett Field (map) Oct 29, 2009

57 Semipalmated Plover 5 Avi Lewis Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 21, 2006

58 Killdeer 2 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jul 5, 2005

59 American Oystercatcher 1 Coby Klein Floyd Bennett Field (map) Mar 12, 2006

60 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Steven Plust Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 13, 2006

61 Solitary Sandpiper 2 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 23, 2007

62 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Steven Plust Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 13, 2006

63 Willet 1 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jun 27, 2007

64 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 19, 2008

Tringa sp. 8 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 22, 2010

65 Upland Sandpiper 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 22, 2009

66 Ruddy Turnstone X Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 31, 2006

67 Red Knot 2 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 21, 2007

68 Sanderling X Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 31, 2006

69 Semipalmated Sandpiper X Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 31, 2006

70 Western Sandpiper 2 Joseph O'Sullivan Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 22, 2008

71 Least Sandpiper X Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 31, 2006

72 White-rumped Sandpiper 1 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 12, 2009

73 Baird's Sandpiper 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 22, 2007

74 Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Oct 28, 2008

75 Purple Sandpiper X Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Nov 19, 2006

76 Dunlin X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 6, 2006

77 Stilt Sandpiper 1 Joseph O'Sullivan Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 22, 2008

78 Buff-breasted Sandpiper 1 Benjamin Van Doren Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 31, 2010

79 Short-billed Dowitcher 4 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 21, 2007

80 Wilson's Snipe 2 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 16, 2006

81 American Woodcock X Avi Lewis Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 4, 2006

shorebird sp. 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 23, 2010

82 Black-headed Gull 1 Danielle Gustafson Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 24, 2009

83 Laughing Gull X Coby Klein Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jun 24, 2004

84 Ring-billed Gull X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 6, 2006

85 Herring Gull 25 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

86 Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 3, 2010

87 Great Black-backed Gull X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jul 5, 2005

88 Least Tern X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jul 5, 2005

89 Common Tern X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jul 5, 2005

90 Forster's Tern X Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 31, 2006

91 Black Skimmer X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jul 5, 2005

92 Rock Pigeon X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jul 5, 2005

93 Mourning Dove 1 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

94 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jun 10, 2007

95 Barn Owl 1 Rob Jett Floyd Bennett Field (map) Feb 21, 2009

96 Snowy Owl 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Dec 14, 2008

97 Long-eared Owl 1 Corey Finger Floyd Bennett Field (map) Nov 15, 2009

98 Common Nighthawk 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 29, 2009

99 Chimney Swift 1 Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 31, 2006

100 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 16, 2006

101 Belted Kingfisher 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 23, 2006

102 Red-headed Woodpecker 1 D. Edward Davis Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 9, 2009

103 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 29, 2008

104 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 13, 2008

105 Downy Woodpecker 1 Coby Klein Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 25, 2006

106 Hairy Woodpecker X Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 1, 2006

107 Northern Flicker 5 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

108 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 16, 2007

109 Willow Flycatcher 10 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jun 10, 2007

Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's) 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jul 5, 2005

110 Least Flycatcher 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 12, 2007

Empidonax sp. 2 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 17, 2008

111 Eastern Phoebe 3 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 23, 2006

112 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 23, 2006

113 Eastern Kingbird 1 Avi Lewis Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 19, 2006

114 White-eyed Vireo 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 16, 2006

115 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 13, 2006

116 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 4, 2008

117 Warbling Vireo 2 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 13, 2006

118 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 16, 2006

119 Blue Jay 2 Coby Klein Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jun 24, 2004

120 American Crow 20 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

121 Fish Crow 4 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

crow sp. 2 Scott Whittle Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 25, 2009

122 Horned Lark 7 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Feb 11, 1996

123 Tree Swallow 11 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

124 Bank Swallow 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jul 29, 2008

125 Barn Swallow X Coby Klein Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jun 24, 2004

126 Black-capped Chickadee 6 Coby Klein Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 25, 2006

127 Tufted Titmouse 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Oct 6, 2008

128 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Dec 2, 2006

129 White-breasted Nuthatch X Heydi Lopes Floyd Bennett Field (map) Oct 29, 2009

130 Brown Creeper 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 14, 2007

131 Carolina Wren 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 8, 2006

132 House Wren 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 16, 2006

133 Winter Wren 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 23, 2006

134 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 30, 2008

135 Golden-crowned Kinglet X Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 1, 2006

136 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 1, 2006

137 Eastern Bluebird 2 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Oct 1, 2006

138 Veery 1 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 14, 2008

139 Swainson's Thrush 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 23, 2006

140 Hermit Thrush 40 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Nov 4, 2006

141 Wood Thrush 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 12, 2007

142 American Robin 3 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

143 Gray Catbird 3 Coby Klein Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jun 24, 2004

144 Northern Mockingbird 3 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

145 Brown Thrasher 1 Coby Klein Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jun 24, 2004

146 European Starling X Coby Klein Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jun 24, 2004

147 American Pipit 6 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Oct 7, 2008

148 Cedar Waxwing X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jul 5, 2005

149 Golden-winged Warbler X Leonor Chavez Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 20, 2009

150 Tennessee Warbler 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Oct 10, 2008

151 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Nov 11, 2008

152 Nashville Warbler 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 11, 2008

153 Northern Parula 1 Avi Lewis Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 11, 2006

154 Yellow Warbler X Coby Klein Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jun 24, 2004

155 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 12, 2007

156 Magnolia Warbler X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 13, 2006

157 Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 Avi Lewis Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 19, 2006

158 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

159 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Avi Lewis Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 11, 2006

160 Blackburnian Warbler 3 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 20, 2007

161 Pine Warbler 2 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 16, 2006

162 Prairie Warbler 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 13, 2006

163 Palm Warbler 3 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 16, 2006

164 Bay-breasted Warbler 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 20, 2007

165 Blackpoll Warbler 2 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 12, 2007

166 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Avi Lewis Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 11, 2006

167 American Redstart 1 Avi Lewis Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 11, 2006

168 Worm-eating Warbler 1 Heydi Lopes Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 7, 2009

169 Ovenbird 3 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 12, 2007

170 Northern Waterthrush 3 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 16, 2006

171 Connecticut Warbler 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 15, 2007

172 Common Yellowthroat 2 Avi Lewis Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 12, 2006

173 Hooded Warbler X Leonor Chavez Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 20, 2009

174 Wilson's Warbler 1 Avi Lewis Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 15, 2006

175 Canada Warbler 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 20, 2007

176 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Oct 10, 2008

177 Eastern Towhee 2 Coby Klein Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jun 24, 2004

178 American Tree Sparrow 6 Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Mar 4, 2006

179 Chipping Sparrow 1 Avi Lewis Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 11, 2006

180 Clay-colored Sparrow 1 Scott Whittle Floyd Bennett Field (map) Oct 4, 2008

181 Field Sparrow 4 Coby Klein Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 25, 2006

182 Vesper Sparrow X Scott Whittle Floyd Bennett Field (map) Oct 21, 2007

183 Lark Sparrow 1 Rob Jett Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 17, 2009

184 Savannah Sparrow 1 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

185 Grasshopper Sparrow 2 Joseph O'Sullivan Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 22, 2008

186 Fox Sparrow 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Nov 4, 2006

187 Song Sparrow 2 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

188 Lincoln's Sparrow 2 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Oct 14, 2007

189 Swamp Sparrow 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 8, 2006

190 White-throated Sparrow X Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 1, 2006

191 White-crowned Sparrow 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Sep 23, 2006

192 Dark-eyed Junco 2 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Oct 14, 2006

193 Lapland Longspur 1 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Dec 7, 2007

194 Snow Bunting 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Nov 21, 2007

195 Scarlet Tanager 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 20, 2007

196 Northern Cardinal 5 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

197 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 12, 2007

198 Blue Grosbeak 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 29, 2009

199 Indigo Bunting 2 Avi Lewis Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 12, 2006

200 Dickcissel 2 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jul 5, 2005

201 Bobolink 100 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Aug 29, 2007

202 Red-winged Blackbird 6 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

203 Eastern Meadowlark X Scott Whittle Floyd Bennett Field (map) Oct 21, 2007

204 Common Grackle X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 13, 2006

205 Boat-tailed Grackle 4 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

206 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 20, 2003

207 Orchard Oriole 1 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jun 10, 2007

208 Baltimore Oriole 1 Avi Lewis Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 12, 2006

209 Purple Finch 1 Ronald Bourque Floyd Bennett Field (map) Nov 14, 2007

210 House Finch X Avi Lewis Floyd Bennett Field (map) May 12, 2006

211 White-winged Crossbill 1 Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Feb 5, 2009

212 Common Redpoll 1 Michael Mayer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jan 24, 2009

213 Pine Siskin 10 Tom Preston Floyd Bennett Field (map) Nov 2, 2008

214 American Goldfinch 1 Unknown Observer Floyd Bennett Field (map) Apr 1, 2006

215 House Sparrow X Doug Gochfeld Floyd Bennett Field (map) Jul 5, 2005