Thanks to funding from The Boston Foundation, the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey has been able to study an innovative predator exclosure design to assist with piping plover recovery. The organization was the first recipient of a grant from the foundation’s new initiative to aid conservation of these small shorebirds, which are one of the state’s most endangered species.

“Exclosures, or nest ‘cages,’ have been used over the past several decades to protect plover eggs from predators such…