Community Corner
Supervisor Romaine Announces Quail Release At Longwood Estate
The birds were hatched and cared for by the students for two weeks before handing them off to CEED.
Press release from the Town of Brookhaven:
July 25, 2022
On July 7, Supervisor Ed Romaine was at the Town’s Manorville Compost Facility to announce the annual Quail release will be held at Longwood Estate in Ridge.
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Working with the Center for Environmental Education and Discovery (CEED), students from Nassau and Suffolk Counties including Shoreham-Wading River, Longwood Library, Mt Sinai School District, and Middle Country School District assisted in raising Northern Bobwhite Quail for release into the wild. The birds were hatched and cared for by the students for two weeks before handing them off to CEED, where a cadre of CEED Volunteers continue to raise them in outdoor flight pens until they are 12 weeks old. Once abundant on Long Island, Northern Bobwhite Quail are released annually in Brookhaven Town to help control the tick population, especially the deer tick, which is a carrier of Lyme disease. To learn more about CEED and their Northern Bobwhite Quail Release programs in other communities, visit www.ceedli.org. The annual Quail release at Longwood Estate is administered by the Town of Brookhaven’s Department of Recycling and Sustainable Materials Management (RSMM).
This press release was produced by the Town of Brookhaven. The views expressed here are the author's own.
