Video A Salad Bar for Brant Geese. Coney Island, Brooklyn
A Salad Bar for Brant Geese. Coney Island, Brooklyn
In November, Brant Geese arrive by the tens of thousands and spend the winter in and around the NYC harbor. They travel from as far away as the tundra of Baffin and Ellesmere Islands, their arctic breeding grounds. Once eelgrass feeders (which died off in the 30's in NY waters), the birds now live off a diet of lawn grass and sea lettuce, which flourishes in the harbor thanks to high levels of nitrogen brought on by high levels of sewage run off from the City.
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Signed art prints donated by three extraordinary artists are available for purchase in our art prints store, to support the programs we are engaged in. The prints include, among others, "Last Turn Your Turn" created by Robert Rauschenberg for the Earth Summit, Christo sketches of "The Gates,” a public art event by Christo and his wife Jeanne Claude that drew millions to Central Park, and "Manifest Destiny," by Alexis Rockman, showing New York City underwater in the future as a result of climate change.