Our 23rd year of conducting research and managing begins with a very dark cloud of COVID 19. We have drastically cut back our team and reduced our goals to only those considered essential to the long term data set. Can we do this work without increasing the risk to our small team? We will make that decision every day.
Wildlife management relies heavily on paid staff, but wildife fail to be protected. On Delaware Bay we follow a different model – integrate volunteers into all work
In 2020 the shorebirds coming to the bay left early because of delayed horseshoe crabs spawning. We still hope for more birds, but the window is closing fast.
Northeasterly winds keeps Delaware Bay water cold and holding back horseshoe crab spawning and making life difficult for migrant shorebirds
In our 24th year of work on Delaware Bay Shorebirds and horseshoe crabs, the year of COVID 19 has brought an ecological lockdown from cold water.
Wildlife work during a pandemic Death and suffering spread across…
