Beached birds on the move, or,… not.
When COASST was getting started, there were a whole bunch of things we wanted to know that required each bird to be uniquely tagged: How long do birds persist on the beach? What body parts
Photo: Hillary Burgess
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Inside a debris survey
It’s the wrack zone that’s so difficult to figure out—where it begins, where it ends. “See, there’s a piece,” says Adelia Ritchie, pointing to a short scrap of seagrass, and then another, and another. “You can see there’s sort of a whole band all along here.”