Courier Post: Delaware Bay rated highly for bird watching
Scientist Larry Niles holds a red knot shorebird during a banding and release operation on the Delaware Bay in May 2011.
Photo Credit: New Jersey Press Media
Thirty years of research by New Jersey state wildlife scientists, New Jersey Audubon and other groups has culminated in 50 miles of the Delaware Bay shoreline being named a “globally significant important bird area,” a designation that could help focus more conservation efforts on the region.
The bayshore from Cape May Point west to Fairfield in Cumberland County encompasses 50,000 acres of beaches, wetlands and forest, and was selected based largely on its importance to four species: the red knot and ruddy turnstone shorebirds, and black ducks and snow geese.
Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 12/27/2011 2:00 PM 
Categories: Birds
Tags: wildlife new jersey delaware bay bird watching cape may
Categories: Birds
Tags: wildlife new jersey delaware bay bird watching cape may
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