A Canada goose nests in an urn as a deer keeps a watchful eye at Forest Lawn cemetery in Buffalo, N.Y. For at least four days, the buck has stood guard near the nest of the goose as she sits on her eggs. The cemetery is home to the remains of President Millard Fillmore and rock icon Rick James.
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tsar, The statistic about the national parks sounds a bit out there to me. I know that New York has tremendously diverse fauna. But still. I know that in addition to your standard urban dwellers we've got coyotes and raccoons. And a good variety of raptors. Coyotes and raccoons are tremendously adaptable. Raptors have easy pickings here with all the oiban boids and rodents and lots of tall places for nesting.
The Earthwatch project New York City Wildlife led by Dr Cat Burns of the University of Maine is carrying out one of the first studies aiming to understand the impacts of urbanisation across different taxonomic groups in the New York metropolitan area. The project will quantify the abundance and diversity of mammal, bird, amphibian and plant communities in a range of protected areas spanning an urbanisation gradient, from extremely urban to rural.
