State guide
New York Nature Guide
New York is a state of dramatic natural range, from the wild boreal heart of the Adirondack High Peaks to the salt marshes and barrier beaches of Long Island, with the Finger Lakes, Hudson Valley, Catskills, and Great Lakes plain between. Its humid continental climate spans USDA zones 3b in the coldest Adirondack valleys to 7b on coastal Long Island, producing a hard northern winter, a globally celebrated spring migration, a warm and productive summer, and one of the longest, most colorful fall-foliage seasons in the country. Migration funnels — Montezuma's vast wetlands, Central Park's migrant-trap canopy, Jamaica Bay's shorebird flats, and the Niagara River's winter gull spectacle — make New York one of the premier birding states in North America.
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New York Nature Year 2027
Everything Birch Compass knows about a year of nature in one state — the book, the posters, the sky calendar, the life list, and a weekly note through 2027.