After an incredibly active and productive second week, the third week of the Songbird Stopover Project took on a noticeably quieter pace. The shift in pace was largely due to persistent southerly winds that didn’t favor migration into the South Cape May Meadows, where the project is based. These less-than-ideal…...
Cape May Songbird Stopover Project Internship
Cape May Songbird Stopover Project Internship New Jersey Audubon Research Department María Jesús Sepulveda Fall 2024 Cape May Songbird Stopover Project Staff, November 6, 2024 First Days on the Job My first day working for the Songbird Stopover Project began on September 8th at the South Cape May Meadows tagging…...
Infection in Monarchs (O.e.) Migrating through Cape May Point, NJ
Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (O.e.) Infection in Monarchs Migrating through Cape May Point, NJ By Gayle Steffy, 2024 MMP Field Naturalist Ophryocystis elektroscirrha. (O.e.) is a parasitic single celled organism known as a protozoan that infects monarch butterflies. It is transferred from an infected adult monarch to a caterpillar by spores that…...
Cape May Monarch Monitoring Project Annual Report 2024
By Anna Haggenjos and Gayle Steffy Project Overview The Monarch Monitoring Project (MMP) was founded in 1990 by naturalist Dick Walton and Dr. Lincoln Brower. This project, under New Jersey Audubon’s Cape May Bird Observatory, seeks to better understand the fall migration of monarch butterflies through Cape May Point and…...
NJ Audubon Monitoring Young Forest Treatment Areas
Since the start of the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service’s (NRCS) Working Lands for Wildlife Program (WLFW) in 2012, New Jersey Audubon (NJA) has been instrumental in assisting numerous private landowners to enroll in the program, develop habitat management plans, as well as implementing those plans, for the recovery of…...
