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Picture this… it’s the spring of 2015 and you are tiny, sand colored bird traveling along the Atlantic coast.You’re searching for the perfect stretch of beach that has everything you need to not only survive but thrive… wide stretches of sand, plenty of food, and little disturbance. You find the newly restored Fowler Beach at Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge and eureka!Home sweet home!
We are celebrating 10 years since threatened piping plovers found a literal “field of dreams” at Prime Hook, and to commemorate this momentous occasion, we are running a new digital interpretive series, Plover Primetime.In this series we will introduce our plovers and show you a little bit of what they get up to out at Fowler Beach all summer. We’ve been closing the beach every year from March 1st to September 30th so that these little guys can have some peace, quiet, and safety to raise their little ones. We hope this window into their lives will give everyone a better understanding of these rare and vulnerable little birds and why we do what we do for them.
