New Yorkers working to fiercely protect endangered Piping Plovers & other shorebirds nesting on our city’s beaches • join us to #protecttheplovers • all the links: https://linktr.ee/nycploverproject
NYC Plover Project
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He inspired us to create the NYC Plover Project in 2021, and for that we are forever grateful to him.
Thank you, Clark Kent 🩵
📷: Michelle Talich, part of the NYC Plover Project team since our first season ❤️
His final summer with us, 2023, our volunteers and National Park Service staff helped protect his plover family, just as we did each summer he spent in NYC, staffing a temporary beach closure, and they fledged one chick.
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Thank you! ❤️
Many have babies right now so please give them space, keep your dogs off all beaches until the fall, and mind posted signs. Thank you!
📷: (1) Chris Allieri; (2) Benjamin Forbes
Hatched in 2018 in NJ, he spent 4 summers on Fort Tilden in Queens, and wintered, 1,000+ miles south, on the beautiful island of Andros, Bahamas.
As you read this post, migratory birds are in flight across our hemisphere and around the globe. We share the planet with them, today and always.
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NYC Plover Project team member Benjamin Forbes caught this Piping Plover inspection this past week ❤️
It’s World Migratory Bird Day, & as many mark the occasion by looking at birds, here’s to the birds as they look at us. Spending time w/ plovers, we see these intelligent sentient beings examining us, which helps us to understand & respect our place in their world and not just the other way around.
Here’s to all the plover dads this Father’s Day! You protect your territories, partners and broods, and remind us about resilience, determination, and love. We hold in our hearts one very special plover dad, Clark Kent.
It’s American Oystercatcher Day! Striking, boisterous, & fascinating, they make awesome ambassadors for our coastal ecosystems, we are grateful to see them along our city beaches. They are great parents too. Just like the plovers - & terns & skimmers - they need protection!
#birds #birdoftheday
