Birding - The Adirondacks
Upstate New York is known for the fun and beauty that can be found in the Adirondacks. Birding in the Adirondacks is excellent and a combination of all the things that make the Adirondacks great.
Birding - The Adirondacks
The Adirondacks is a mountain range in northeastern New York State. It is best know as a popular winter resort area with a long history of entertaining celebrities of a sort. Less well known is the fact that birding in the Adirondacks is excellent.
In fact, during the summer of 2005, Hamilton County held the first Adirondack Birding Festival to honor the birds whose habitat lie within the region. The festival encouraged the participation in hikes, canoe trips and nature walks to watch over 100 species nest in Adirondacks' Hamilton County, home to the Bicknell’s thrush, a rare songbird only found in mountaintop forests of the Northeast. Other birds that can be seen during the festival include the Common Raven, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Golden-Crowned Kinglet to mention only a few.
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The Adirondacks are home to many boreal bird species. Some of them are the Ruby-Crowned Kinglet, Lincoln’s Sparrow, Palm, Blackpoll Warblers, Yellow-Bellied, Olive-Sided Flycatchers and other species. The boreal chickadee is also native to the Adirondacks, but lives in Hamilton County. While bird watchers can find birds like the gray jay or black-backed woodpecker throughout the year, the migrating birds are watched in June, the time when their singing announces their arrival to the Adirondack region. This is the time when most species can be seen and heard everywhere, including close to the roads.
During bird watching events, different trips of varying difficulties are scheduled throughout the region in order to facilitate viewing, featured by the High Peaks Audubon Society. Birding in the Adirondacks range from hikes up Blue Mountain, easy walks in the Northville-Placid Trail, or canoeing from Little Tupper Lake to Round Lake.
The Adirondack Regional Tourism Council has also developed a ton of information devoted to education on birding in the Adirondacks. The council provides detailed maps and information on 86 Adirondack's birding sites and more than 300 species in the entire region including specialties such as the Bicknell’s Thrush and Spruce Grouse. Contact them for more information.
Birding the Adirondacks is a great way to get out of the big city. With the wide variety of species and sighting points, your life list is sure to benefit.