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=Vermilion River Important Bird Area= Vermilion River Important Bird Area webpage Vermilion River Important Bird Area map

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Edison Woods MetroPark (Erie Co.)
Coordinates: 41.3440921, -82.4820839 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Edison Woods MetroPark--Mason Rd. Prairie Trails
Coordinates: 41.3414521, -82.4691725 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Edison Woods MetroPark--Rose Mallow Pond
Coordinates: 41.3551003, -82.4809313 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Main St. Beach
Coordinates: 41.4250304, -82.3656178 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Vermilion River Entrance
Coordinates: 41.4229151, -82.3604289 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

OH-2 Rest Stop Nature Trail--Eastbound
Coordinates: 41.4015071, -82.3348577 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

OH-2 Rest Stop Nature Trail--Westbound
Coordinates: 41.4041326, -82.335062 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Vermilion River Reservation--Bacon Woods
Coordinates: 41.3840533, -82.3217537 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Vermilion River Important Bird Area
The Vermilion River corridor is mature, extensive, and intact; second to the Grand River, it is the best-looking river corridor flowing into Lake Erie. The river is 59 miles long and flows northward to Lake Erie. Portions of the corridor are very scenic with steep cliffs of reddish clay, and the old beach ridge may hold flora of note.

Included in this IBA is Edison Woods Reserve of Erie MetroParks. It is a contiguous tract of mixed mature and successional wet and mesic woodlands, old fields, and agricultural fields with some residences. It contains the western edge of Berea sandstone escarpment, an old quarry, and adjacent Lake Plain. Its northern edge is only 2-3 miles away from Lake Erie and the size of this tract is unusually large for the area. 300-500 acres of Category 3 wetlands exist on site with increasingly rare oak/ash wetland, and extensive vernal pools in woodlands supporting significant salamander populations.

The Bacon Woods area of the Vermilion River Reservation is a riparian corridor, with meadow and wooded slopes. A tornado in the metropark in the late 1990s opened up part of the valley floor, leading to ongoing changes in bird populations. The park is in the valley of the Vermilion River and is the westernmost deep-cut river valley emptying into Lake Erie.

The Vermilion River is one of the premier forested river corridors flowing into Lake Erie. It supports a high diversity of breeding rare songbirds. The Vermilion corridor provides habitat for 15 confirmed or probable warbler species, as well as two additional possible breeding species. The river's mouth marks the approximate point along the lakeshore dividing eastern- and western-bound birds (e.g. warblers and some raptors) that tend to avoid crossing the lake.

Edison Woods Reserve provides a large undeveloped tract containing both oak/ash and beech/maple forest, which supports breeding populations of numerous woodland-specific species. With its proximity to Lake Erie, it also provides an important stopover area for migratory songbirds.

The Vermilion River Reservation (Bacon Woods) supports some bird and plant communities otherwise found only to the east. It has the highest concentration of Cerulean Warbler in this drainage on the lake plain. From Vermilion River Important Bird Area webpage

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