![]() Dana Discovery Center, located next to the Harlem Meer, the artificial lake at Central Park North. Celebrate Urban Birds featured many activities around the city over several days, but the cornerstone gathering took place on the sunny Saturday afternoon of May 12 at the Charles A. Saturday was also a day for heightening awareness of Cornell in New York City. "This is a project that we are hoping to merge with our other citizen science projects, My Yard Counts and eBird, to examine habitat use by birds in residential landscapes across the urban-to-rural gradient."Īlthough Celebrate Urban Birds is a national program, Cornell is particularly seeking "to heighten awareness of birds in urban areas, bird diversity and appropriate habitats for birds," explained Gretchen Ferenz, senior extension associate with CCE-NYC. "Citizen science is a methodology for involving citizen participants in professional scientific research," said Janis Dickinson, the Lab of Ornithology's director of citizen science and principal investigator of the grant. Department of Agriculture's Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service to introduce the project to partners in New York. NEW YORK CITY - Think birds in New York City, and many would envision the rock pigeon, scurrying by on sidewalks and park paths.Īctually, the rock pigeon is just one of many bird species common to the Big Apple, including the American robin, European starling and the water-loving black-crowned night heron, often seen sitting atop the pipes that jut out of the water in Central Park.Īnd the park is where children and adults joined the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Cornell Cooperative Extension-New York City (CCE-NYC) May 10-13 to Celebrate Urban Birds - NYC! The national citizen science project got under way this year with a three-year grant of $85,500 in Smith Lever funds from the U.S.
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