Beach-nesting birds

Over the past few weeks, BiodiversityWork staff has collaborated with Massachusetts Audubon and the Town of Edgartown to study a Black Skimmer colony on Norton Point. These visits resulted in […] ...

June is the most hectic month when it comes to shorebird monitoring on Martha's Vineyard. The surge of summer visitors coincides with the highest density of shorebird hatching events, so […] ...

During the winter at BiodiversityWorks, we shift gears from fieldwork to office tasks as we analyze and report results from the preceding season and begin preparations for the projects in […] ...

The emails arrive with subject lines of E8, then N3 and J7. You might think we are playing bingo, and in a way, we are: black skimmer bingo! The letter/number […] ...

One of the aspects that makes wildlife conservation efforts on Martha’s Vineyard so engaging is the abundance of migratory birds that use the Island’s beaches for staging or breeding. BiodiversityWorks […] ...

The BiodiversityWorks shorebird management team is wrapping up its 11th season of monitoring beach-nesting birds at select sites across the island. The Vineyard's beaches represent critical habitat for these birds […] ...

Black skimmers began nesting in Massachusetts in 1985, but always in low numbers (fewer than seven pairs). They first nested on Martha's Vineyard (MV) in 2010 at Norton Point beach […] ...

We have been working long hours since early April, but all of the hard work is well worth it when the first chicks begin to hatch.  American Oystercatchers began hatching […] ...