Printer-friendlyHelderberg Bird Conservation Area
This BCA includes Partridge Run WMA and State Forest, Knox (Burke) WMA, and Cole Hill State Forest. It is an upland complex that includes hardwood and conifer (plantation) forests, young regenerating forests, old fields, shrublands, reverting farmland, wooded swamp, shrub wetlands, and numerous ponds and wetlands.
Some of the species of interest include American Woodcock, Ruffed Grouse, Brown Thrasher, Eastern Towhee, Prairie Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, as well as a wide variety of forest warblers and songbirds, winter finches. Woodland raptors include Northern Goshawk (special concern).
More about Helderberg Bird Conservation Area:
- Helderberg BCA Site Map - New York State Bird Conservation Area Program - Site Map for Helderberg BCA.
- Helderberg BCA Management Guidance Summary - New York State Bird Conservation Area Program - Management Guidance Summary for Helderberg BCA
