Conserve Wildlife: Promising Results of Forest Bird Surveys at Joint Base

Throughout the year, Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey teams up with partners from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s state field office and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst’s natural resources department to survey the installation’s forest for birds. “These surveys,” explained Leah Wells, CWF assistant wildlife biologist, “allow us to get an inventory of bird species found throughout the large expanses of protected natural areas within the base’s boundaries.”

So far in 2024, the scientists have documented “a diverse array of bird species passing through during migration, and…