Beach-Nesting Bird Monitoring Underway at Forsythe Refuge in Holgate

Over the past eight years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has contracted the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey to provide monitoring of beach-nesting birds at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Holgate, at the southern end of Long Beach Island, and on uninhabited Little Beach Island.

“The refuge nesting sites provide some of the only habitat in the state closed to the public and free of human disturbance and detrimental beach management practices,” noted CWF Senior…