Shoreline 'globally significant' for birding

[dogg57]

Thirty years of research by New Jersey state wildlife scientists, New Jersey Audubon and other groups has culminated in 50 miles of the Delaware Bay shoreline being named a “globally significant important bird area,” a designation that could help focus more conservation efforts on the region.The bayshore from Cape May Point west to Fairfield in Cumberland County encompasses 50,000 acres of beaches, wetlands and forest, and was selected based largely on its importance to four species: the red knot and ruddy turnstone shorebirds, and black ducks and snow geese.

http://www.courierpostonline.com/ar...20014/Delaware-Bay-rated-highly-bird-watching

 

[manumuskin]

I was out on an island near turkey point one winter (an old hangout of mine when i lived in the crik) and I heard the most God awful racket so I climbed a red maple to see what it was. There must have been 50,000 snow geese on the marsh a couple miles south of the end of the road at turkey point. For at least a square mile was a blanket of white geese.By the way I got a Red Knot on my head at work today.