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The Effect of Human Activity on Shorebirds in Two Coastal Bays in Northeastern United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Joanna Burger
Joanna Burger
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Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and Bureau of Biological Research, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA.
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The effects of human activities on shorebirds migrating through Raritan and Delaware Bays (New Jersey, USA) were examined from late April to late October 1982. Less than 5% of the 471,055 shorebirds counted in the censuses were in Raritan Bay, and only eight species accounted for 95% of the total. Bird populations peaked during late May to early June, and had a secondary peak in early August. People walking accounted for 43% (Raritan Bay) and 50% (Delaware Bay) of the disturbances. Other disturbances, in descending order of abundance, were of fishermen, airplanes, dogs, clam-diggers, off-road vehicles, boats, children, and joggers.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , Summer 1986 , pp. 123 - 130
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1986

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