Tags: Beach Nesting Birds

This is a rain or shine event (unless severe weather). Please meet at the Stone Harbor Point parking lot at the southern end of the island (2nd Avenue). All supplies will be provided, but please dress appropriately.

This is a rain or shine event (unless severe weather). Please meet on the Spring Lake side of Wreck Pond (parking available at Brown and Ocean Avenues). We will be fencing here first and then moving up to Shark River Inlet at the north end of Belmar around noon. All supplies will be provided, but please dress appropriately.

Every Sunday at 11am you are invited to join a biologist with NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife to walk on the beach at Cape May Point State Park to discuss efforts being made to help endangered beach nesting birds. Meet at the Park Office.

Every Sunday at 11am you are invited to join a biologist with NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife to walk on the beach at Cape May Point State Park to discuss efforts being made to help endangered beach nesting birds. Meet at the Park Office.

Every Sunday at 11am you are invited to join a biologist with NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife to walk on the beach at Cape May Point State Park to discuss efforts being made to help endangered beach nesting birds. Meet at the Park Office.

Every Sunday at 11am you are invited to join a biologist with NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife to walk on the beach at Cape May Point State Park to discuss efforts being made to help endangered beach nesting birds. Meet at the Park Office.

Every Sunday at 11am you are invited to join a biologist with NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife to walk on the beach at Cape May Point State Park to discuss efforts being made to help endangered beach nesting birds. Meet at the Park Office.

Every Sunday at 11am you are invited to join a biologist with NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife to walk on the beach at Cape May Point State Park to discuss efforts being made to help endangered beach nesting birds. Meet at the Park Office.

Every Sunday at 11am you are invited to join a biologist with NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife to walk on the beach at Cape May Point State Park to discuss efforts being made to help endangered beach nesting birds. Meet at the Park Office.

Every Sunday at 11am you are invited to join a biologist with NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife to walk on the beach at Cape May Point State Park to discuss efforts being made to help endangered beach nesting birds. Meet at the Park Office.

Every Sunday at 11am you are invited to join a biologist with NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife to walk on the beach at Cape May Point State Park to discuss efforts being made to help endangered beach nesting birds. Meet at the Park Office.

Every Sunday at 11am you are invited to join a biologist with NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife to walk on the beach at Cape May Point State Park to discuss efforts being made to help endangered beach nesting birds. Meet at the Park Office.

Every Sunday at 11am you are invited to join a biologist with NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife to walk on the beach at Cape May Point State Park to discuss efforts being made to help endangered beach nesting birds. Meet at the Park Office.

Every Sunday at 11am you are invited to join a biologist with NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife to walk on the beach at Cape May Point State Park to discuss efforts being made to help endangered beach nesting birds. Meet at the Park Office.

Join us for a presentation about piping plovers, one of the state's most critically endangered bird species. Learn what is being done to protect and monitor them locally along the Jersey Shore, as well the fascinating story of their annual migration to and from the Bahamas. Our speaker has "greeted" them at both ends of their journey as part of his conservation research and outreach.

Todd Pover is the Beach Nesting Bird Project Manager for the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey. In that capacity he oversees the statewide monitoring, management, and research for at-risk shorebird species, such as piping plover, least tern, black skimmers, and American oystercatcher. He has been helping protect these species for over 20 years in New Jersey, and more recently has had a role in flyway scale conservation, in particular in the Bahamas.

Join CWF Senior Biologist Todd Pover at Island Beach State Park's Interpretive Center to learn about endangered piping plovers - their fascinating nesting behavior, breeding trends in New Jersey, recent research on their migration and wintering grounds, and an update on their status at Island Beach State Park - where they returned to nest last year after a decade long absence. This will be an informative presentation followed by Q&A, appropriate for those who know little or nothing about piping plovers or those looking to expand their knowledge.

Piping plovers are one of the most intensely managed and monitored breeding bird species in North America, including here in New Jersey. As a result, much is known about their breeding behavior, but until recently far less was known about them during migration and wintering. Recent research, especially in the Bahamas, has revealed new information about their wintering distribution and behavior. Todd will discuss these newer findings, as well as provide an update on their current status and reproductive success in New Jersey.

Admission: $3 for members and $5 non-members

Barnegat Light was once one of the most important sites in New Jersey for beach nesting birds, including endangered piping plover. Join Todd to learn about the restoration project to make the site more suitable to nesters once again.

Join Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey (CWFNJ) for a special event featuring Piping Plovers. Each spring, New Jersey is home to some of the largest concentrations of shorebirds in North America, including Piping Plovers. The threatened plovers nest at places like Edwin R. Forsythe NWR, where there are nearly 40 pairs, and CWFNJ is there to protect them. The birds are endangered in the Great Lakes, which is where the story of "Monty and Rose" in Chicago comes in.

Filmmaker Bob Dolgan will introduce the story before screening the film. Afterward, he'll be joined in conversation by Todd Pover, a Senior Wildlife Biologist for CWFNJ. Todd has been involved in research, monitoring, and management of beach nesting birds for over 25 years in New Jersey and other portions of the flyway. Bob is a birder/filmmaker in Chicago who is also the founder of Turnstone Strategies and author of the This Week in Birding newsletter. This is the first showing of his film on the East Coast!