ADOPT-A-QUAIL PROGRAM
With your $10.00 donation
to this program you'll receive a Certificate of Adoption and a 4-color reproduction (both suitable for framing) of the Great Swamp "Artist-in-Residence" Tom Lenweaver's quail painting.

And, in addition, you'll be helping in our unprecedented effort to re-establish this once very common songbird to upstate New York.

Call for details — 697-2950 or e-mail us at gscincny@centralny.twcbc.com
Great Swamp Conservancy’s “Adopt-a-Quail” program was established to help fund its continuing efforts to the Bobwhite Quail rearing program. All proceeds are for the sole purpose of helping in the conservancy’s efforts in implementing an intensive quail habitat and management program. Previous years’ efforts have successfully proven that the program is working as more birds are seen from previous years rearing programs in the habitat area and on the trail system.
 
The “Adopt-a-Quail” program is the first-of-its-kind conservation initiative in Central New York to improve quail densities. The conservancy’s quest to restore Bobwhite Quail habitat in CNY will serve to provide an increase in quail populations, while educating and inspiring a conservation ethic among students and members.
 
Through this and other programs, the conservancy's aim is to provide members and especially students with hands-on experience with nature and teach them to identify plant and animal species, as well as assist with healthy quail habitats. Habitat improvements and quail-friendly habitat management that improve quail populations will also benefit most groups of songbirds, including the Eastern Bluebird, the official state bird of New York. Good quail habitat requires a mix of brush and shrubs, bare ground, and waist high grasses and weeds, both abundant, thanks to our continued efforts, within and around the Great Swamp area.
 
“We really want people to come by and take a look at what we’ve been doing here” says Mike Patane, conservancy president. “As a rule, you’re going to lose a majority of your birds, that’s the way nature works - especially due to our severe winters. We are, however, encouraged by continual reports from people who are seeing quail in and around our focus area, which proves previous year’s efforts have been paying off.”







The Great Swamp Conservancy, Inc. • 8375 North Main Street • Canastota, NY 13032 • Phone 315 697-2950

www.greatswampconservancy.org • e-mail: gscincny@centralny.twcbc.com