Arctic 2007

Many migratory shorebirds nest in the Arctic and fly south to winter. On the way back they stop in Delaware Bay. The birds build weight on the bay to get back to the Arctic and without it, they will die on the way or fail to breed. Our first trips to the Arctic were about what role the Arctic played in the decline of shorebirds – were conditions in the Arctic causing the declines in shorebirds seen in Delaware Bay? We learned in our expeditions that the answer was no, but threats exist.  We lost funding to go to the Arctic in 2005-2006 but returned to a new effort to find knots on Victoria Island as part of a new Nature documentary on our work call Crash- Tale of two Species.