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...Natural History of New York City, by John Kieran. One of the first of the great panelists, a born-and-bred New Yorker, provides pleasing information on nature's triumph over asphalt...
Fragile Persistence. Kieran's nature walks have centered on Van Cortlandt Park and the Hudson's shore near Spuyten Duyvil, but he did not stick to the man-made nature spots of parks and reserves. Through the asphalt of a parking lot, Kieran has seen emerge the fragile but persistent mustard plant. The most merciless predator of Wall Street is neither bull nor bear, but the peregrine falcon; the swift diving bird of medieval romance roosts in the towers of office buildings and, with pigeons as prey, makes many a killing in the street. Once, covering a football...
...Kieran tells what can be found where and when, how it can be recognized and what it means in the complicated economy of nature. Winter visitors to New York regularly include the bald eagle, who rides the ice floes down the Hudson as far as Dyckman Street. Muskrat houses can be found in the lower end of the Van Cortlandt swamp; the eastern cottontail is common in the fields and thickets of Staten Island; the northern brown snake inhabits Central Park...
...dormitories for thousands of the birds every winter. And for the city-bound naturalist, nothing is more convenient than the hibernating habits of the big brown bat, who sleeps through the cold months in one wing of the Museum of Natural History. One of the joys of nature study, Kieran's book makes clear, is the fellowship of amateur and professional; most of the professionals in town roost, like the bats, at the museum...
While Author Kieran easily makes his point that nature endures all things, even concrete and steel, he also chronicles the species that have been pushed beyond the city limits-the oyster, the deer, the bobcat and beaver. Among the latest to leave is snowy-thatched, Latin-quoting John Kieran himself. The story on nature in New York is complete and compelling, but the story was filed from Rockport, Mass. His ancient habitat, a rambling Riverdale house where once a flying squirrel was a steady customer at a bird-feeding station, is now a stretch of concrete in the Henry Hudson...