Blue Heron Park

Blue Heron Park is a nature refuge on the South Shore of Staten Island, New York. It has various natural areas including meadows, kettle ponds, freshwater streams and marshes, and woodlands. The park, maintained by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, was acquired by the city in several parcels between 1974 and 2001, with the official dedication taking place on October 22, 1996.

The extensive wetlands in the park are part of the Blue Belt, an area of Staten Island which utilizes existing and improved undeveloped areas for storm water drainage. There are six ponds located within the park including the 1.75-acre (7,100 m²) Spring Pond and the 1.4-acre (5,700 m²) Blue Heron Pond

The park provides habitat to various species of birds including the Blue heron (Ardea herodias) for which it was named as well as various species of mammals such as bats, raccoons, grey squirrels and chipmunks.

The visitors center for the park located off Poillon Ave, is the starting point for three trails which traverse different areas of the park.

Flora

American Sweet Gum (Liquidambar styraciflua), Tulip tree (liriodendron tulipifera), Red columbine (Aquilegia canadensis), Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) and Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) white water lilies (Nymphaea odorata).

Fauna

Glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus), wood duck (Aix sponsa), osprey (Pandion haliaetus), black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), Spring peepers (Pseudacris crucifer), tree frogs (Hylidae), raccoon (Procyon lotor)^[1]

References

^ "Blue Heron Park". New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.

External links

Blue Heron Park - official site
Friends of Blue Heron Park - operates the Blue Heron Park Nature Center

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Protected areas of New York City

Federal

National Historic Sites	Lower East Side Tenement Museum Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
National monuments and memorials	African Burial Ground Castle Clinton Federal Hall General Grant Governors Island Hamilton Grange Statue of Liberty Stonewall
National recreation areas	Gateway National Recreation Area - Jamaica Bay Floyd Bennett Field Fort Tilden Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Jacob Riis Gateway National Recreation Area - Staten Island Fort Wadsworth Great Kills Hoffman Island Miller Field Swinburne Island

State

State Parks	Bayswater Point Clay Pit Ponds Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Gantry Plaza Marsha P. Johnson Riverbank Roberto Clemente Shirley Chisholm
State recreation lands	Mount Loretto Unique Area Udalls Cove

City parks and preserves

Manhattan

The Bronx

East Bronx	Bicentennial Veterans Castle Hill City Island Wetlands Ferry Point Givans Creek Woods Haffen Harding Hart Island Magenta Playground Pelham Bay Hunter Island Orchard Beach Rodman's Neck Pelham Parkway Pugsley Creek Richman Seton Falls Seton Soundview Starlight
West Bronx	Aqueduct Walk Bridge Bronx Bronx Skate Park Devoe Ewen Harris Henry Hudson Jerome Mosholu Parkway Poe Raoul Wallenberg Forest Riverdale Spuyten Duyvil Shorefront St. James University Woods Van Cortlandt Vidalia Vinmont Veteran Washington's Walk Williamsbridge Oval
South Bronx	Baretto Point Bill Rainey Carlos J. Lozada Playground Claremont Concrete Plant Crotona Estella Diggs Grant Hunts Point Riverside Joseph Rodman Drake Joyce Kilmer Julius Richman Macombs Dam Mill Pond Mullaly North and South Brother Islands Playground 52 Printer's Richman St. Mary's Taqwa Community Farm Tremont

Brooklyn

Queens

Staten Island

North Shore (Community District 1)	Allison Pond Austen House Buono Beach Barrett Clove Lakes Clove's Tail Corporal Thompson Eibs Pond Faber Forest Grove Fort Hill Gaeta Graniteville Quarry Graniteville Swamp Hero Ingram Woods Jones Woods Joseph Manna Lyons Pool Recreation Center Maple Woods Northerleigh Richmond Terrace Wetlands Sailors' Snug Harbor Shooters Island Silver Lake Sobel Court Tappen Tompkinsville Von Briesen Walker Westerleigh
Mid-Island (Community District 2)	Blood Root Valley Bradys Pond Deere Father Macris FDR Boardwalk Gen. MacArthur High Rock Last Chance Midland Field Ocean Breeze Old Place Creek Prall's Island Saw Mill Creek Marsh Schmul South Beach Wetlands St. George Staten Island Industrial Westwood Willowbrook
Mid-Island & South Shore (Community Districts 2 & 3)	Freshkills LaTourette Meredith Woods William T. Davis Wildlife Refuge
South Shore (Community District 3)	Aesop Amundsen Circle Annadale Arbutus Woods Arden Woods Bayview Terrace Bloomingdale Blue Heron Blueberry Bunker Ponds Carlton Conference House Crescent Beach Fairview Great Kills Huguenot Ponds Hybrid Oak Woods Isle of Meadows King Fisher Kingdom Pond Lemon Creek Long Pond Olmstead-Beil House Reed's Basket Willow Swamp Seaside Wildlife Nature Siedenburg Tottenville Shore Wegener Wolfe's Pond

Other

Nature centers	Alley Pond Belvedere Castle Blue Heron Crotona Dana Discovery Center Forest Fort Greene Fort Totten Greenbelt High Rock Inwood Hill Orchard Beach Prospect Salt Marsh Van Cortlandt
Zoos	Bronx Central Park Prospect Park Queens Staten Island
Botanical gardens	Brooklyn Botanic Conservatory New York Botanical Queens Botanical Staten Island Botanical New York Chinese Scholar's Wave Hill
Roosevelt Island	Lighthouse Southpoint
Other lists	World War I-related parks Vietnam War-related parks Hispanic and Latino-related parks

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