The Audubon Alliance Asks You to Share the Beach with Piping Plovers, Least Terns and Other Birds

Piping Plover on a Long Island Sound beach. Photo by Sean Graesser/Copyright Connecticut Audubon Society

June 2013 – A team of volunteers will be on Connecticut’s beaches this summer to monitor nest sites of vulnerable birds and help educate beach-goers about how they can help keep the birds safe.

The volunteers are working with the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds to protect Piping Plovers, Least Terns, Common Terns, American Oystercatchers and other species that nest along the heavily-used beaches and islands of Long Island Sound.

The volunteers will be keeping their eyes on known nest sites, telling visitors why it’s important that they and their dogs stay clear of the nesting areas, and explaining the federal laws designed to protect the birds.

Among other places, the beach monitors will be at Connecticut Audubon Society’s Milford Point Coastal Center, Long Beach in Stratford, Sandy and Morse points in West Haven, Griswold Point in Old Lyme, and Bluff Point State Park in Groton. Read more here…