Beach-nesting birds

For BiodiversityWorks field staff, the end of August also means the end of the beach-nesting bird season. As the 27 sites we monitor transition from nesting areas to migratory stopovers […] ...

It’s time for the latest installment of black skimmer bingo! As the skimmers arrive back on their natal grounds, our shorebird staffers jump at the chance to go out and […] ...

The BiodiversityWorks field staff returned to the beach this month to begin monitoring and protecting five beach-nesting bird species (piping plover, least tern, common tern, American oystercatcher, and black skimmer) […] ...

When Liz last wrote about our banded black skimmers in her August blog post, the colony members had just left their breeding grounds on Martha's Vineyard to begin their southward […] ...

On Martha’s Vineyard, the conclusion of the Agricultural Society Fair in late August signals the unofficial end of the busy summer season. For the BiodiversityWorks field staff, it similarly marks […] ...

Black skimmers, those marvelous tern relatives with even more marvelous orange, knifelike beaks, nest annually now on Martha's Vineyard. But the location of their colony is not consistent. This year, […] ...

If I were to rank my days on the job at BiodiversityWorks from best to worst, May 23, 2025 would be near the bottom. Until that point, the 2025 beach-nesting […] ...

As part of our beach-nesting bird monitoring efforts, BiodiversityWorks staff are always on the lookout for banded birds. Typically, bird bands are imprinted with letter and or number codes specific […] ...