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Site Description<\/h3>\n

This collection of urban natural areas is located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus along the south shore of Lake Mendota.\u00a0 The site hosts a variety of habitats, including upland deciduous forest, shallow and deep-water marsh, restored prairie, oldfields, and planted gardens.\u00a0 Picnic Point, a nearly mile-long peninsula jutting out into Lake Mendota, is one of the Preserve\u2019s most distinctive features.<\/p>\n

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UW Lakeshore Preserve, photo by William Cronon<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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UW Lakeshore Preserve, photo by William Cronon<\/p><\/div>\n

Ornithological Importance<\/h3>\n

The Lakeshore Nature Preserve is a significant migratory concentration area for a wide variety of birds, including waterfowl, waterbirds, and landbirds.\u00a0 The landbird migration is particularly notable, bringing thousands of flycatchers, thrushes, vireos, sparrows, tanagers, orioles, and especially warblers (34 species recorded) to the Preserve\u2019s woods, fields, and marshes in spring and fall.\u00a0 The Preserve\u2019s proximity to the university and to the City of Madison also makes it an important site for education, research, and nature-based recreation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Site Description This collection of urban natural areas is located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus along the south shore of Lake Mendota.\u00a0 The site hosts a variety of habitats, including upland deciduous forest, shallow and deep-water marsh, restored prairie, oldfields, and planted gardens.\u00a0 Picnic Point, a nearly mile-long peninsula jutting out into Lake Mendota,… [Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-633","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":636,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/633\/revisions\/636"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}