After surveying the coast from Dennis Creek to Bidwells Creek, we finished our count. We found another 600 knots and a similar number of turnstones. From Fortescue to Bidwells, we counted 3974 red knots, 3740 ruddy turnstones, and about 500 sanderlings.
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We rode the beach of Lagoa do Piexe that night and found over 200 knots roosting in the dry inlet of Lagoa do Piexe
Julia Finger participates in Antonio’s LDP project and all other projects supervised by Virgina Petry, who requires the same of all her students. The shared experience gained by each student participating in the other’s projects provides practical training for these young biologists, who immediately impress with thier command in the field.
What follows is the story of our fieldwork and our ultimate success, not only attaching transmitters but teaching our Brazilian partners the same skills taught to us by others from around the world
USGS and ASMFC statisticians ignore the aerial ground count estimates as they also ignore the low egg densities in order to support their untested models that justify the death of too many horseshoe crabs.