Shorebird migrations are impressive and provocative, a must-see for urban naturalists.
A survey found it to be the top shorebird springtime migration area in the lower 48 states.
Sea Stories follows Adams and his wife, Kerstin, as they walk among alder and maple trees, along the beach to observe the annual migration of shorebirds, and back eastward through meadows and what remains of the inland forest.
With incredible, twice-yearly, continent-spanning migrations, shorebirds exemplify the connectedness, wonder, and complexity of nature.
Currently Delaware fishermen are allowed to harvest about 162,000 horseshoe crabs a year, but only males and only after June 7, when red knots and other shorebirds have resumed their northward migration.
The migration route of shorebirds in the east Asian-Australasian flyway does overlap the areas that have had H5N1 outbreaks, although the virus has been notably absent in Taiwan, Malaysia (except for occasional outbreaks near the Thai border), and western Australia.
The birds, and people who pay to watch them, have brought an infusion of tourism cash to the fishing village of Cordova, which highlights the migration with an annual shorebird festival.
These migration routes, especially those of shorebirds and waterfowl, often follow the coastlines of continents; however, some species cross extensive bodies of water.
Each summer, a quiet migration gets under way for North American shorebirds.
