Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Deveaux Bank South Carolina Whimbrel Announcement @cornell_lab | Uploaded June 2021 | Updated October 2024, 15 hours ago.
Discovery at Deveaux! This short film follows a team of shorebird biologists as they confirm the first census of a newly discovered Whimbrel roost in 2019. The final counts amount to nearly 20,000 individuals, representing half of the entire Atlantic Flyway population of this declining species using a single barrier island in South Carolina.

Spanish translation provided by Alix Pedraza.

Learn more here: https://www.birds.cornell.edu/conservation-media/whimbrel-discovery/

Support to protect the Atlantic flyway has been provided by the Robert F. Schumann Foundation

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