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Cape May National Wildlife Refuge provides critical habitat to a wide variety of migratory birds and other wildlife. It supports 317 bird species, 42 mammal species, 55 reptile and amphibian species, and numerous fish, shellfish and other invertebrates.
Sign on the limit of Nicolet Migratory Bird Sanctuary, Quebec. Migratory Bird Sanctuaries are created in Canada under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994. They are administered by the Canadian Wildlife Service. [1] The first sanctuary in North America, Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary, was created by federal order-in-council in 1887.
Here is a list of the largest National Wildlife Refuges in the United States.It includes all that are larger than 50,000 acres (200 km 2), but excludes those in U.S. territories (also officially in the system).
From 'first-day birders' to area scientists, a look at Cape Fear birds and who's protecting them. Gannett. Jamey Cross, Wilmington StarNews. January 15, 2024 at 2:02 AM.
A few months before the St. Jude team arrived in Cape May this year, H5N1 had turned up for the first time in dairy cattle in Texas. The finding that H5N1 could infect cows put flu experts ...
The Cape May Bird Observatory, as part of the New Jersey Audubon Society, also helps to organize the World Series of Birding each May. The World Series, as well as other birding festivals, such as the Cape May Fall Weekend, bring hundreds of people to the Cape May area, who enjoy its rich avifauna and support the local economy.
Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge; Senator Frank S. Farley State Marina; U.S. Coast Guard Station, Atlantic City; Cape May County. Cape May Point State Park; Corson's Inlet State Park; Cape May Migratory Bird Refuge (The Nature Conservancy's William D. & Jane C. Blair Jr.) The Wetlands Institute; Higbee Beach Wildlife Management Area
In 1932 Lighthouse Island, Cape Island, Raccoon Key, and thousands of acres of salt marsh and tidal creeks were included in the new Cape Romain Migratory Bird Refuge. At that time it was managed by the U.S. Biological Survey, now known as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.