Do you love long walks on the beach and protecting and monitoring listed shorebirds? Or maybe you're hoping to work out a beautiful place like Mass Audubon Nantucket Sanctuaries, Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, Mass Audubon Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary, or Mass Audubon South Shore Sanctuaries? We hope you'll apply to our seasonal roles here at at CWP for this upcoming field season. Roles start as early as mid-March. Check out the postings for crew leaders and field assistants on the Mass Audubon jobs website: https://www.massaudubon.org/jobs/
08/31/2021
We're always amazed by the work Cape Wildlife Center does to help rescued birds like this Sanderling. Feeling grateful that we got him to the experts that he needed and sent him on his way.
08/08/2021
Feel like falling in love with Piping Plovers again today? Check out this wonderful short film by Kim Smith (kimsmithdesigns.com). https://vimeo.com/582282579
Piping Plovers of Nahant Nahant Beach Reservation is a popular urban beach located 12 miles north of Boston, on the coast of Nahant Bay. The mile-long narrow stretch…
08/03/2021
Bravo to Wild Care Cape Cod and our dedicated field crew for taking such good care of this Common Tern!
Wild Care rehabilitated the tern that was weakened and emaciated from having one of its leg entangled in fishing line. The bird made a full recovery and was ...
07/18/2021
Mass Audubon is in conversations with MassWildlife and other colleagues about the risk posed to Massachusetts birds by the ongoing avian disease outbreak in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern US. Wh…
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Mass Audubon's Coastal Waterbird Program is one of the most effective entities working to protect coastal birds and barrier beaches in North America. Launched in 1986 in response to declining populations of Piping Plovers and terns in Massachusetts, the Coastal Waterbird Program’s primary objective is to protect nesting and foraging areas throughout the state.
In partnership with federal, state, and municipal agencies, and with private landowners, the program has helped to recover the number of Piping Plovers nesting in the state from 135 pairs in 1986 to 680 pairs in 2018—approximately 1/3 of the Atlantic Coast population.
Through management, science-based conservation, policy development, and education, the Coastal Waterbird Program protects over 140 miles of coastline annually and manages approximately:
40-50% of the state's Piping Plovers
40% of Massachusetts Least Terns
20% of Massachusetts American Oystercatchers
The program focuses on protection of the most threatened species of coastal birds, and more broadly, coastal ecosystem management. The Coastal Waterbird Program serves as a model for integrated coastal resource management.
