Mar 15, 2021 4:30 AM Daytona Beach, FL - The goal of the Volusia County Shorebird Partnership is to conserve shorebird and seabird populations but they need the public’s help to make it happen. Jennifer Winters, Volusia County Protected Species Activity Manager, says that the partnership is part of the Florida Shorebird Alliance. She says that nesting shorebird surveys are done all year round. We’d like people to help us identify nesting locations. So if you’re walking on the beach and you see some unusual bird activity. They lay their eggs directly on the sand so we’d want to know where those areas are so we can get out and post them to ensure that they would have a successful chance. Winters said different species have different habitat preferences for their nests so you can find them all over the place. Least terns and Wilson s plover, they’ll nest actually on open beach areas so usually kind of the upper beach area. We’ve had Wilson
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