WILDLIFE EXPERTS MEET IN STONE HARBOR

The Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor hosted the First Annual Spring Shorebird and Horseshoe Crab Festival over the weekend. Wildlife experts and birders gathered to educate the public about conservation and a natural phenomenon that occurs here in South Jersey. Renowned author Phillip Hoose gave a lecture on Red Knot birds, that feed on the eggs of horseshoe crabs during their migration in the spring. Wildlife officials say that the Red Knots travel all over the world and that without our newly restored beaches in South Jersey, the birds would be unable to make a critical stop on their three month journey from the tip of South America all the way up to the top of the Artic Circle.