Continue health and status assessments of Delaware Bay populations of red knot and expand health and survival assessments to a key stopover site in Brazil. Project will continue a long-term red knot conservation program, informing habitat management and horseshoe crab harvest, and also help improve arrival condition of Delaware Bay red knots by reducing stressors at an earlier stopover site.
NFWF Grant Profile
Conservation Program(s):
Atlantic Flyway Shorebirds
Project Title: Assessing Red Knot Recovery Using Data from Delaware Bay and Lagoa do Peixe, Brazil (DE, BRA)
Organization:
Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey, Inc.
Project ID:
0111.20.067106
Description:
Award Amount:
$75000.00
Location:
The project will take place in the Delaware Bayshore counties of NJ (Salem, Cumberland and Cape May). Shoreline, marshes and intertidal areas of Delaware Bay in DE and NJ, along with the Atlantic coast in Cape May County, will be studied.