Contents • Acknowledgments • Introduction • MANHATTAN • Key Sites • Central Park • Inwood Hill Park • Fort Tryon Park • Sherman Creek and Swindler Cove • Randall’s Island • Governors Island • Hudson River Greenway Biking • The Battery • Other Places to Find Birds in Manhattan • Bryant Park • Madison Square Park • Union Square Park • Washington Square Park • Morningside Park • Riverside Park and “the Drip” • Carl Schurz Park and the East River • Peter Detmold Park • Uniquely Manhattan Birding • BROOKLYN • Key Sites • Prospect Park • Brooklyn Botanic Garden • Green-Wood Cemetery • Floyd Bennett Field • Dead Horse Bay and Dead Horse Point • Coastal Brooklyn Winter Waterfowl Viewing • Brooklyn Bridge Park • Bush Terminal Piers Park • Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4 • Owls Head Park and American Veterans Memorial Pier • Gravesend Bay • Calvert Vaux Park • Coney Island Creek • Coney Island Creek Park • Coney Island Pier • Plumb Beach • Salt Marsh Nature Center at Marine Park • Dead Horse Bay and Dead Horse Point • Canarsie Pier • Canarsie Park • Fresh Creek Park • Hendrix Creek and Betts Creek • Spring Creek Park • Other Places to Find Birds in Brooklyn • Brooklyn Bridge Park • Bush Terminal Piers Park • Owls Head Park and American Veterans Memorial Pier • Calvert Vaux Park • Plumb Beach • Four Sparrow Marsh • QUEENS • Key Sites • Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge • Big Egg Marsh, aka Broad Channel American Park • Jacob Riis Park and Fort Tilden • Breezy Point • Edgemere Landfill • Forest Park • Queens Botanical Garden • Alley Pond Park and Oakland Lake • Other Places to Find Birds in Queens • Baisley Pond Park • Rockaway Beach Endangered Species Nesting Area • Kissena Park and Corridor • Flushing Meadows Corona Park • Willow Lake • World’s Fair Marina • Highland Park and Ridgewood Reservoir • Cemetery of the Evergreens • THE BRONX • Key Sites • Pelham Bay Park • New York Botanical Garden and Bronx Zoo • Van Cortlandt Park • Other Places to Find Birds in the Bronx • Woodlawn Cemetery • Wave Hill • Riverdale Park / Raoul Wallenberg Forest Preserve • Spuyten Duyvil Shorefront Park • North Brother and South Brother Islands • STATEN ISLAND • Key Sites • Clove Lakes Park • Great Kills Park • Blue Heron Park Preserve • Wolfe’s Pond Park and Acme Pond • Lemon Creek Park • Mount Loretto Unique Area and North Mount Loretto State Forest • Long Pond Park • Conference House Park • Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve • High Rock Park and Conservation Center and Moses Mountain • Mariner’s Marsh Park • Goethals Pond Complex, Including Bridge Creek, Old Place Creek Park, and Goethals Pond • Snug Harbor and Allison Pond Park • Willowbrook Park • Miller Field, Midland Beach, and South Beach • Other Places to Find Birds on Staten Island • King Fisher Park • Oakwood Beach • Moses Mountain • Fort Wadsworth • Silver Lake Park • Tottenville Train Station • Other Greenbelt Parks • Reed’s Basket Willow Swamp • LaTourette Park • In Case You Were Wondering • Freshkills Park • Harbor Herons Complex—Shooters and Prall’s Islands • Staten Island Ferry • NASSAU COUNTY • Key Sites • Jones Beach State Park • Point Lookout • Nickerson Beach • Cow Meadow Park and Preserve • Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area • Hempstead Lake State Park • Massapequa Preserve and Tackapausha Museum and Preserve • John F. Kennedy Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary, Tobay Beach • South Shore Winter Freshwater Birding • Grant Park Pond and Willow Pond • Lofts Pond Park • Milburn Pond • Cow Meadow Park and Preserve • Camman’s Pond Park • Mill Pond Park and Twin Lakes Preserve, Including Wantagh Pond and Seaman Pond • Massapequa Preserve and Tackapausha Preserve • The North Shore • Muttontown Preserve • Leeds Pond Preserve • Sands Point Preserve • Whitney Pond Park • William Cullen Bryant Preserve • Garvies Point Preserve • Welwyn Preserve • Stehli Beach Preserve and Charles E. Ransom Beach • Centre Island Town Park • Bailey Arboretum • Shu Swamp (Charles T. Church Nature Sanctuary) • Upper and Lower Francis Ponds • Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park • Mill Pond in Oyster Bay • Sagamore Hill • St. John’s Pond Preserve • Uplands Farm Sanctuary • SUFFOLK COUNTY • Western Suffolk • Robert Moses State Park • Sunken Forest at Sailors Haven, and Watch Hill • Smith Point County Park • Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge • Captree State Park and Gilgo Beach • Caumsett State Historic Park • Target Rock National Wildlife Refuge • Tung Ting Pond and Mill Pond • Sunken Meadow State Park • Blydenburgh Park • David Weld Sanctuary • Connetquot River State Park • Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park • Heckscher State Park • Central Suffolk County, Including the Grasslands • Wading River Marsh Preserve • Wildwood State Park • Hulse Landing Road • EPCAL • Calverton Ponds Preserve, Preston’s Pond, and Swan Pond • “The Buffalo Farm” • Golden Triangle Sod Farms • The South Fork and Shelter Island • Shinnecock Bay and Inlet • Dune Road • Cupsogue Beach County Park • Mecox Bay • Mashomack Preserve on Shelter Island • The North Fork • Orient Point County Park • Plum Island • Orient Beach State Park • Ruth Oliva Preserve at Dam Pond • Inlet Pond County Park • Moore’s Woods • Arshamomaque Preserve • Arshamomaque Pond Preserve • Cedar Beach County Park • Goldsmith’s Inlet Park • Nassau Point of Little Hog Neck • Downs Farm Preserve • Marratooka Lake Park (Marratooka Pond) • Husing Pond Preserve • Laurel Lake • Montauk Peninsula • Montauk Point State Park and Camp Hero State Park • Shadmoor State Park and Ditch Plains • Hither Hills State Park • Hook Pond • SPECIES ACCOUNTS • Rarities • Accidentals • Bibliography • Index