AAfCW 2016 Volunteer Update #23

This is the twenty-third weekly update by the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds (AAfCW) for the 2016 season. Today's update includes reports of Piping Plover, American Oystercatcher, Least Tern and Common Tern from August 22 through 11:00 a.m. on August 29 with sightings of birds by volunteers and staff.

Informational updates:

This is the final regular weekly update for the 2016 season. If you have yet to submit any data please do so as soon as possible. We thank you all once again for the tremendous and invaluable work you have done all spring and summer long. We will email numbers on bird totals for the season later in the autumn/winter once they are finalized by CT DEEP.

Survey and monitoring updates:

Piping Plover

1 juvenile at Silver Sands State Park on 8/23

1 adult, 1 fledgling at Long Beach on 8/23
1 adult/fledgling at Long Beach on 8/23
1 fledgling at Long Beach on 8/24

1 juvenile at Sandy/Morse Points on 8/24

1 fledgling at Long Beach on 8/24

1 juvenile at Sandy/Morse Points on 8/25
1 juvenile at Silver Sands State Park on 8/25

2 adults/juveniles at Sandy/Morse Points on 8/26

American Oystercatcher

2 adults, 1 juvenile at Mouth of Oyster River, West Haven/Milford (Baybrook Beach) on 8/22
49 adults at Short Beach on 8/23
1 adult at Long Beach on 8/24
4 adults at Milford Point on 8/24

1 adult at Long Beach on 8/24
35 adults at Milford Point on 8/25
2 adults at Griswold Point on 8/25
1 adult, 1 juvenile at Bluff Point on 8/25

Least Tern

15 adults/juveniles at Sandy/Morse Points on 8/24
4 adults/juveniles at Sandy/Morse Points on 8/25

Common Tern

500 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 8/22
125 adults at Short Beach on 8/23
3 adults at Silver Sands State Park on 8/23

5 adults at Sandy/Morse Points on 8/23

50 adults/juveniles at Sandy/Morse Points on 8/24

150 adults/juveniles at Milford Point on 8/25
150 adults/juveniles at Sandy/Morse Points on 8/26
38 adults/juveniles at Sasco Hill Beach on 8/28

This concludes update #23 through 08/29/16 as of 12:00 p.m.