BIRDS OF NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS-EAST
Click on park names in hypertext to see bird checklists.
- Greenbelt Park & Baltimore-Washington Parkway, MD
--forested park and scenic roadway with forested buffer.
- Kenilworth Park, DC
--includes Kenilworth Marsh and Aquatic Gardens, forest, and
recreational fields along the Anacostia River.
- Anacostia Park, DC
--predominantly recreational areas along the Anacostia River.
- Capitol Hill Parks, DC
--Folger Park, Lincoln Park, Marion Park, and Stanton Park.
- Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, DC
--Cedar Hill, Douglass' last home.
- Fort Circle Parks, DC/MD
--sites of Civil War forts, now predominantly forested.
- Oxon Run Parkway, DC
--forested natural area.
- Oxon Cove Park, DC/MD
--includes Oxon Hill Farm, and grasslands, scrub, and forests along Oxon
Run & Cove and the Potomac River.
- Suitland Parkway, MD
--scenic roadway with forested buffer that connects Andrews Air Force
Base with Bolling Air Force Base and downtown Washington.
- Harmony Hall, MD
--historic house and ruins, field, forest, and marsh.
- Fort Washington Park, MD
--forest, lawns, and historic fort overlooking the Potomac River.
- Piscataway Park, MD
--forests, marshes, and agricultural fields along the Potomac River and
Piscataway Creek preserve the rural view from Mt. Vernon.
Depress button to get a count of the number of documented species of birds in
each park.
This page created by Deanna K. Dawson and Gregory A. Gough,
and last updated 12/03/2001.