Since 1997, we have tracked the weights of captured shorebirds at this time to see if they reach the minimum thresholds needed for successful Arctic breeding: 180g for red knots, 155g for turnstones, and 85g for sanderlings
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horseshoe crabs
Birds do not have the luxury of regulatory ambiguity. They’re just trying to live – and to reproduce. Each spring they arrive having gambled everything on what the bay will offer. This year, for a few days, the bay nearly failed them. When the eggs finally came, they responded as though their survival depended on it. Our data simply records what they already know.
previous update Dear Team The situation improved today. Megan Kolk,…
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