Editor's note: This even has been canceled due to inclement weather.
CORONA — An annual celebration of the city's birds of prey will land at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park for the first time, according to the Parks Department.
The 18th Annual Raptor Fest, which has previously been held at Central and Prospect parks, will come to the largest park in Queens on Oct. 3.
Sara Aucoin, the director of the Urban Park Rangers, said it was always their intention to bring the festival to parks around the city.
Birds of prey — like red-tailed hawks, bald eagles and falcons — can be found in every borough, she said.
“Queens is as populated with birds of prey as anywhere else,” she said. The borough also has snowy owls and peregrine falcons – and there’s even a nest of hawks living in the park’s famous Unisphere.
Park Rangers will set up educational tables at the October festival to let visitors know about the birds flying all around them.
There will also be free-flying demonstrations and the chance to see the birds up close.
“Part of the purpose of the event is to help highlight what’s here and help people understand how to find it,” she said.
“It reminds us how wild and green New York City really is.”
