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Coming to the Point
A Bird's Eye View of the Woods
The kinds of birds you see in this forest depend on where you look and when. You might hear the rapping of a woodpecker year-round, while abundant summertime insects support a variety of neotropical migrants that breed here during the warmer months. Still other migrants stop only for a brief respite before continuing their annual journal.
A Place for Forested Space:
The woods at Jones Point are valuable real estate, used by a wide variety of birds for nesting and foraging -- and they need every inch of forest. Many breeding migrants require large areas of unbroken, protective forest to nest. Habitat loss and fragmentation of wooded land may be behind the decline of some birds, particularly long-distance migrants.
Invasive Species:
Invasive species like porcelainberry and yam-leafed clematis crowd out native plants by taking up space, nutrients, and sunlight. When invasives take over, the forest loses important food sources and nesting sites -- and the birds that depend on them. |