Wapack National Wildlife Refuge
A 3-mile (5 km) segment of the 21-mile (34 km) Wapack Trail passes through the refuge and provides wide views of the surrounding mountains.
The refuge lies in the towns of Greenfield, Lyndeborough, and Temple, and is administered by the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Nature
The refuge protects diverse habitat types, including northern hardwood-conifer, hemlock-hardwood, and spruce-fir forests and woodlands, oldfields, scrub-shrub habitat, and rock ledges with talus.
Birds
The refuge is a popular hawk migration area and provides nesting habitat for numerous migratory songbirds such as the American tree sparrow, Swainson's thrush, magnolia warbler, crossbills, pine grosbeaks and white-throated sparrow.
Other birds observed on the refuge during a 2002 breeding season survey:
- Ovenbird
- Hermit thrush
- Red-eyed vireo
- Canada warbler
- Blackpoll warbler
- Bay-breasted warbler
- Black-throated blue warbler
- Black-throated green warbler
- Blackburnian warbler
- Golden-crowned kinglet
- Scarlet tanager
- Rose-breasted grosbeak
- Yellow-bellied sapsucker
- Red-tailed hawk
- Sharp-shinned hawk
- Peregrine falcon
- Ruffed grouse
Mammals
The refuge provides habitat for many mammal species, some of which include:
Reptiles and amphibians
Some amphibian species on the refuge:
Invertebrates
Invertebrates on the refuge are a food source for many other animal species. Insects in the area include butterflies, dragonflies, beetles, wasps, and ants.
References
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