Lucy has been so great to work with this past year! Stay tuned as we start to investigate how changing patterns of landcover affects abundance of shorebird nesting habitat in the Virginia barrier islands!
29.04.2025 12:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New paper alert!
Piping plovers select nest sites with better views of predators, allowing early detection and evasive actions. A nest's "viewshed" should be considered in habitat management and understanding ground-nesting bird behavior.
Link to the paper by @sharinnature.bsky.social below!
24.02.2025 19:23 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Celebrating our community at the Atlantic Coast Piping Plover and Least Tern Workshop at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, WV. It was so good to be with current and former lab members!
06.02.2025 02:42 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
VTShorebirds is hiring! You’ll get to look at lots of shorebirds and the Virginia barrier islands are a pretty amazing place to work.
26.01.2025 13:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New year, new social media!
Hi Bluesky! We’re the VT Shorebird Program, a research group in the Virginia Tech Dept. of Fish & Wildlife Conservation interested in the applied conservation of shorebirds and seabirds!
Follow along to learn about our work and maybe a fun shorebird fact or two!
24.01.2025 18:39 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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