A surprising visitor turned up along Manhattan’s West Side, but the guest was actually not a transplant.
As amNewYork reported, a visitor captured the moment a beaver surfaced in the Hudson and then pulled itself onto rocks by the shoreline. The brief encounter showed how protected urban waterways can create space for native animals to return.
What happened?
Near Gansevoort Peninsula in Hudson River Park, Sophia Tulp recorded a beaver swimming in the Hudson and climbing onto the rocks. AmNewYork added that park officials said the sighting was the first documented one in the park’s 400-acre estuarine sanctuary.
Hudson River Park (@HudsonRiverPark) celebrated the sighting and shared the footage in a post on X…