AAfCW - Focal Species Data Update

Good afternoon, all!

We've received many, many emails in the last few days about you joining us now for the 2020 season. If you didn't receive a reply yet, we're getting there! If you missed the email, see the full text here in our blog: https://ctwaterbirds.blogspot.com/2020/06/starting-2020-aafcw-volunteer-monitoring.html

Remember to please let us know you'll be monitoring in 2020, your preferred beach/schedule, if to confirm if you need an ID badge, lanyard, and/or paperwork. CT DEEP will be mailing materials once you do. Thank you!

Below is an update from CT DEEP's Rebecca Foster about our Piping Plovers, American Oystercatchers, Least Terns, and Common Terns. Washouts and predation have been big issues in 2020. Piping Plovers had to go without nest exclosures in many locations early in the season as it is a job that requires multiple staff, but they are now being put up by CT DEEP. We will be in touch more next week.

Bluff Point State Park
PIPL-7 pairs (3 nests hatched, 4 incubating/renesting)
AMOY-3 pairs (2 renesting)
LETE-1 active colony

Harkness Memorial State Park
PIPL-4 pairs (2 nests hatched, 2 incubating)
LETE-1 active colony

Hammonasset Beach State Park
PIPL-1 PR PIPL incubating a nest, all other nests lost
AMOY-1 PR (nest lost)
LETE-a few observed

Sandy Point
PIPL-7 pairs (2 nests hatched, 3 incubating)
AMOY-3 pairs (1 nest hatched, 2 incubating renests)
LETE-1 active colony
COTE-3 pairs incubating

Milford Point
PIPL-13 pairs (2 nests hatched, most are renesting, losses from wash-outs and predation)
AMOY-3-4 PRS (2 nests hatched, 1 incubating a renest)
LETE-1 active colony

Long Beach
PIPL-13 pairs (2 nests hatched, 5 incubating renests, most renesting, losses due to predation)
AMOY-1 pair (incubating a renest)
LETE-1 active colony

Short Beach
PIPL-1 pair (1 nest hatched)
LETE-1 pair incubating

Thanks again for your dedication to our birds!