NESTING OF BLUE GROSBEAKS (Passerina caerulea) AT THE FORMER FRESH KILLS LANDFILL, STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK, IN 2014

摘要

One of two pairs of Blue Grosbeaks present at the Fresh Kills Park (formerly the Fresh Kills Landfill) during the summer of 2014 successfully fledged at least one chick. This is the second confirmed breeding record in Staten Island and about the sixth for New York State. Blue Grosbeaks nested at the Meadowlands, near North Arlington, NJ beginning in 1973-1975 and at Bucks Hollow on Staten Island in 1982. Since 1999, Blue Grosbeaks have been present each summer in the Long Island pine barrens region, especially Riverhead, Calverton, and Eastport, and have nested there several times. These records represent the forward edge of a northward expansion that has been underway since the 19~(th) century.