NJ.com: N.J. scientists say red knots population still endangered despite recent rise in numbers
A red knot, center, feeds among ruddy turnstones and sanderlings along the Delaware Bay shoreline in Middle Township in this 2005 file photo. Scientists who study the red knot population say they are still considered endangered despite a recent rise in their numbers.
Photo credit: NJ.com
Nearly four years after New Jersey banned horseshoe crab harvesting to protect a vanishing shorebird at the Delaware Bay, scientists say they are not optimistic about recent evidence showing the red knots may be on the rebound. Ground surveys at Delaware Bay last spring found 24,000 red knots, compared with about 15,000 counted in 2008, marking the largest number of the birds found there since 2003. New Jersey and Delaware biological studies last year also found more crab eggs on the bay estuaries, which provide the birds with a crucial migration meal each spring.
Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 3/5/2010 2:00 PM 
Categories: Birds
Tags: red knots delaware bay horseshoe crab population eggs migration shorebirds
Categories: Birds
Tags: red knots delaware bay horseshoe crab population eggs migration shorebirds
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