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Safe Travels: These 2 places are the best in Upstate NY to see migrating raptors each spring

Safe Travels: These 2 places are the best in Upstate NY to see migrating raptors each spring Updated 1:30 PM; Today 12:30 PM Bird watchers scan the skies for migrating raptors (hawks, falcons, eagles, vultures) at Derby Hill on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in the town of Mexico. David Fitch photo. Facebook Share Editor’s Note: This is part of an ongoing series that features things to do in Upstate New York while we still experience the Covid-19 pandemic. Before venturing out, please take proper precautions and check for any changed business hours, park hours or availability. Safe travels! There’s something special about looking up in the sky on a spring day and seeing scores upon scores of soaring, migrating hawks, falcons and eagles flying overhead.

A writer from New Hampshire brings alive the amazing feats of migratory birds

Consider the Arctic tern: it can fly 50,000 miles a year. Author: Rob Caldwell Updated: 2:14 PM EDT April 8, 2021 PORTLAND, Maine The course of Scott Weidensaul’s life was set, to a surprising degree, on an October day at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in the jagged hills of eastern Pennsylvania. “In the fall, when the winds from the northwest strike the side of the mountain, they deflect up,” he explains. “So you have this river of hawks and eagles and falcons and vultures that flow south along this northeast-to-southwest ridge.”  Weidensaul had been lobbying his parents for years, asking them to take him there to watch the birds, and when he was 12 years old he finally got his wish.

An open-eyed history of wildlife conservation

This article originally appeared on Undark. Today s conservationists are taxed with protecting the living embodiments of tens of millions of years of nature s creation, and they face unprecedented challenges for doing so from climate change and habitat destruction to pollution and unsustainable wildlife trade. Given that extinction is the price for failure, there s little forgiveness for error. Success requires balancing not just the complexities of species and habitats, but also of people and politics. With an estimated 1 million species now threatened with extinction, conservationists need all the help they can get. Yet the past a key repository of lessons hard learned through trial and error is all too often forgotten or overlooked by conservation practitioners today. In Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction, journalist Michelle Nijhuis shows that history can help contextualize and guide modern conservation. Indeed, arguably it s only in the last 200

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