The Seaway Trail is For The Birds!

Order the Seaway Trail Birding Guidebook and companion audio CD online!

An estimated 47.7 million birders in the United States spent about $45.7 billion on wildlife-watching in 2006, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The National Audubon Society estimates about 60 million Americans participate in bird watching and feeding. Whatever your appreciation for birds, travel along the 518-mile Seaway Trail, a National Scenic Byway, features a wide variety of bird habitats, providing you an opportunity to visit some of the best birding locations in North America!

Birds are especially abundant during migration, when the region's forests, grasslands and shrubby habitat provide a rest-and-refueling stopover for colorful neotropical birds including warblers, orioles, thrushes, flycatchers, tanagers, sparrows and cuckoos. Experienced birders have seen more than 40 migrant species in a single shoreline woodlot in one morning.

Birding Hot Spots Along the Seaway Trail

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Seaway Trail Birding Fact Sheet   Full pdf download

Individual pages can be accessed below.

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Important Bird Areas in Western New York State: (What's an IBA?) 1.      Ripley Hawk Watch, Chautauqua County 2.      Chautauqua Lake, Chautauqua County 3.      Wheeler’s Gulf, Chautauqua County 4.      Dunkirk Harbor & Point Gratiot, Chautauqua County 5.      Allegany Forest (Allegany S.P.), Chautauqua and Cattaraugus Counties 6.      Tifft Nature Preserve, Buffalo, Erie County 7.      Niagara River Corridor, Buffalo to Niagara Falls 8.      Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge, Niagara and Orleans Counties

Birding Resources for along the Lake Erie and Niagara River Corridors: Buffalo Audubon Society Jamestown Audubon Society Buffalo Ornithlogical Society Hamburg Hawk Watch. Sightings and statistics. The Buffalo-Niagara Nature Tourism Guide delineates the 110-mile Audubon Niagara Birding Trail New York State Parks  -  Map of Parks in the region The National Scenic Byways Program calls the Seaway Trail a "Birdwatcher's Paradise" Birding.com’s page about where to go for New York Birding Western New York Birding Recommendations Niagara River Birding Spots "Gorge"ous Gulls of the Niagara River Gorge More on Niagara River Gulls Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge Christmas Bird Count Great Backyard Bird Count Birds at Hamburg's Penn-Dixie site near the LESTC Woodlawn Beach State Park near the LESTC is a well-regarded birding spot

Not Just For The Birds! Feature Article in 2000 Journey Magazine

Downtown Buffalo hosts an urban peregrine falcon with it's own webcam 

Other FalconCams

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More Information on Important Bird Areas from the National Audubon Society and BirdLife International

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