Among the gulls swooping and foraging on an ocean beach in The Dunes is a rarer avian sight: a pair of orange-beaked, longish-legged American oystercatchers with an active nest site in this section of Long Beach Township. After area residents contacted the state Department of Environmental Protection to alert it to the birds, staff from the DEP’s Division of Fish and Wildlife Endangered and Nongame Species Program erected fencing on the beach to help protect the nest.
Todd Pover, senior wildlife biologist with Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey – a partner organization of the…
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