Fall Birding with Ken Chaya in Central Park.
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“Fall Birding with Ken Chaya in Central Park. “ Friday, October 2nd 10:00 am – 12:00 pm (in person) Central Park, NYC Members’ only Registration is $25 Registration opens September 12th.
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Explore Central Park—Manhattan’s wild green heart—at one of the most exciting times of year for birds and urban wildlife. Each fall, migrating birds pour through New York City, and Central Park provides a critical place for them to stop, rest, feed, and refuel on their long journeys south.
Join Ken Chaya, a naturalist and longtime Central Park birder who has explored the park for more than three decades, for a walk through some of its richest birding areas. Along the way, Ken will help you spot, identify, and observe migrating birds while introducing you to the trees, native plants, insects, and other wildlife that make up the habitat these birds depend upon.
We’ll explore the connections between birds and the landscape around them: which trees provide food and shelter, why native habitat matters, and how even a park in the middle of one of the world’s largest cities can become an essential refuge for wildlife.
Our route may take us through Strawberry Fields, The Ramble, The Lake, and other birding hotspots as we take a deep dive into fall migration, native habitat, urban ecology, wildlife, and the fascinating history of Central Park.
Whether you are picking up binoculars for the first time or have been birding for years, this walk will offer a new way to experience Central Park—not simply as a beautiful landscape, but as a living, interconnected habitat.
About Ken Chaya
Ken Chaya is an artist and urban naturalist based in New York City. He is the designer of Central Park Entire, the celebrated illustrated map and digital app documenting the park’s magnificent landscape and recording some twenty thousand individual trees found there. During his career as an art director in publishing, Ken produced several richly illustrated titles on nature in North
America. As an instructor in the Continuing Education Department, Ken currently teaches several nature courses at the New York Botanical Garden, where he assisted in the creation of the Urban Naturalist Certificate degree program. During the year, Ken leads local nature walks throughout NYC under the auspices of various organizations, participates as a taxon leader for annual Bio-blitzes, and provides lectures to various institutions. He is an active birder/naturalist and a section leader for the annual Central Park Christmas Bird Count sponsored by the New York City Bird Alliance (formerly NYC Audubon). Ken is the past President of The Linnaean Society of New York.
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