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Wildlife Returns to the City (Part 1)

From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Length: 00:10:15

Reporter Kristin Espeland discovers why animals not seen in decades are returning to the big city. Read the full description.
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Default-piece-image-2 Throughout the country, wildlife is moving back into suburbs and cities. Black bears have been lumbering into suburban New Jersey yards. Deer have been darting around Queens. A coyote recently wound up in Central Park. And species of birds that fled pollution and development decades ago are once again nesting all over the city…including hawks, eagles and snowy egrets. In the first of this three-part series, Kristin Espeland rides along with an urban park ranger, returns to the Manhattan of 1609 and visits biologists and birders to find out why animals are back in the big city.

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Throughout the country, wildlife is moving back into suburbs and cities. Black bears have been lumbering into suburban New Jersey yards. Deer have been darting around Queens. A coyote recently wound up in Central Park. And species of birds that fled pollution and development decades ago are once again nesting all over the city…including hawks, eagles and snowy egrets. In the first of this three-part series, Kristin Espeland rides along with an urban park ranger, returns to the Manhattan of 1609 and visits biologists and birders to find out why animals are back in the big city.

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