Audubon New York Coastal Work 2018PRESENTED BY AMANDA PACHOMSKI

2018 Beach-nesting Bird Monitoring Sites

2018 Survey Sites

North Shore Private & Town Sites

Orient Beach State Park

Tobay Beach

2018 Piping Plover Productivity

Site # Pairs # Nests # Fledges Productivity

Orient Beach State Park 9 10 11 1.22

Centre Island Beach 0 0 0 0.00

Centre Island Creek 0 0 0 0.00

Prospect 3 3 6 2.00

Stehli 3 3 5 1.67

Half Moon 1 1 2 2.00

Tobay 1 1 0 0.00

Plum Point 0 0 0 0.00

Total 17 18 24 1.41

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2018 American Oystercatcher Productivity

Site # Pairs # Nests # Fledges Productivity

Orient Beach State Park (1) 0 0 0.00

Half Moon 1 3 0 0.00

Plum Point 1 n/a 1 1.00

Tobay 2 3 0 0.00

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2018 Least Tern Productivity

Site

# Adults

Survey 1

# Adults

Survey 2

Estimated #

Pairs # Fledges

Orient Beach State Park 46 38 38 n/a

Tobay Beach 0 0 0 0

Stehli Beach 114 151 120 16+

Prospect Point 9 1 0 0

Total 158 n/a

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Trail Camera Data

Species # Pairs # Nests # Fledges Productivity

Piping Plover 1 1 0 0

American Oystercatcher 8 10 13 1.63

Atlantic Beach Results from USFWS

Project goals:

• Develop standardized, scientifically-sound guidelines and metrics for assessing

the impacts of disturbance that can be applied across the Atlantic Flyway

• Assess the types of human disturbance, frequency, response of shorebirds, and

effectiveness of various techniques used to control disturbance.

• Determine the associations among coastal habitat conditions, human

disturbance, and shorebird foraging behavior, habitat use, and demography.

• Guide the design of effective social marketing campaign(s) for changing human

behavior causing detrimental disturbance.

This is a NFWF funded collaboration between Virginia Tech and Audubon.

Atlantic Flyway Shorebird Disturbance Surveys

Survey Sites

Town of Hempstead Beaches

Jones Beach State Park

Survey Protocol

Data collected:

• Date & time

• Tide

• Weather

• # Disturbances

• # Predators

• # Focal species

• Behavior

• Site use

• Site management

Focal species: American Oystercatcher, Piping Plover,

Red Knot, Semipalmated Sandpiper, and Wilson’s Plover.

Point N Max # PIPL Max # AMOY Max # REKN Max # SESA

JB1 26 2 4 0 0

JB2 28 6 4 1 1

JB3 28 5 6 0 0

JB4 28 6 4 0 0

JB5 28 4 8 77 11

JB6 28 5 7 56 1

JB7 28 8 6 3 1

JB8 27 5 4 0 0

JB9 27 5 4 21 1

JB10 27 4 5 0 1

Point count results: Jones Beach

Point count results: Town of Hempstead

Point N Max # PIPL Max # AMOY Max # REKN Max # SESA

TOH1 29 4 9 0 21

TOH2 29 2 20 0 6

TOH3 29 3 71 0 0

TOH4 29 2 14 2 1

TOH5 29 4 19 7 1

TOH6 29 5 271 6 31

TOH7 29 3 16 0 4

TOH8 29 2 38 0 0

TOH9 29 13 8 0 6

TOH10 29 17 17 0 5

Max disturbance count per point

Point N # Vehicles # Boats # Aerial

# Dogs,

unleashed

# Dogs,

leashed

# People,

moving

# People,

at rest

#

Predators

JB1 26 0 5 3 0 0 2 4 52

JB2 28 0 0 3 0 0 5 13 46

JB3 28 0 1 2 1 1 5 18 48

JB4 28 1 2 1 0 1 7 33 26

JB5 28 1 0 2 0 0 4 4 143

JB6 28 1 0 2 0 0 4 13 181

JB7 28 0 1 2 0 0 3 3 85

JB8 27 1 0 1 0 0 6 7 58

JB9 27 1 0 2 0 0 7 26 86

JB10 27 3 0 4 0 0 53 316 184

Disturbance count results: Jones Beach

Max disturbance count per point

Point N

#

Vehicles # Boats # Aerial

# Dogs,

unleashed

# Dogs,

leashed

# People,

moving

#

People,

at rest

#

Predators

TOH1 29 2 1 4 0 0 19 281 101

TOH2 29 1 0 4 1 0 6 68 103

TOH3 29 2 1 5 0 1 11 61 222

TOH4 29 3 1 4 0 1 22 222 299

TOH5 29 2 0 5 0 0 34 103 88

TOH6 29 4 0 5 2 1 23 197 131

TOH7 29 3 0 3 0 0 21 67 55

TOH8 29 5 0 2 0 0 33 253 121

TOH9 29 2 0 2 0 0 24 400 148

TOH10 29 3 1 9 0 0 29 239 124

Disturbance count results: Town of Hempstead

Average time spent exhibiting focal behaviors for all focal species

Point N Resting Moving Foraging Alert Flying

JB1 3 81.48% 14.81% 3.70% 0.00% 0.00%

JB2 11 69.19% 15.66% 7.58% 0.00% 2.02%

JB3 7 58.73% 28.57% 11.11% 1.59% 7.94%

JB4 8 60.42% 14.58% 18.75% 6.25% 2.78%

JB5 11 80.30% 8.08% 6.57% 4.55% 6.06%

JB6 9 70.99% 8.02% 19.75% 1.23% 4.32%

JB7 11 79.29% 12.63% 3.54% 1.52% 0.00%

JB8 8 73.61% 21.53% 4.17% 0.69% 0.00%

JB9 12 68.06% 17.13% 13.43% 0.46% 0.00%

JB10 10 57.22% 26.67% 14.44% 1.67% 2.22%

Behavior survey results: Jones Beach

Average time spent exhibiting focal behaviors for all focal species

Point N Resting Moving Foraging Alert Flying

TOH1 8 67.36% 18.06% 4.86% 1.39% 0.69%

TOH2 11 78.28% 7.07% 4.04% 3.03% 3.54%

TOH3 17 60.13% 16.67% 16.34% 1.31% 2.61%

TOH4 16 62.15% 16.32% 12.50% 2.78% 4.51%

TOH5 17 61.11% 24.84% 10.13% 0.00% 0.98%

TOH6 19 56.43% 22.81% 17.84% 2.63% 0.00%

TOH7 14 32.94% 35.71% 28.57% 0.79% 0.79%

TOH8 15 51.11% 23.70% 24.07% 0.37% 0.37%

TOH9 17 63.73% 22.55% 10.78% 2.61% 0.33%

TOH10 22 68.43% 15.91% 14.65% 0.00% 1.77%

Behavior survey results: Town of Hempstead

International Shorebird Surveys

Town of Hempstead

Jones Beach (West)

Pike’s

Beach

Dune Road

Marshes

Mecox Bay

Survey effort

Site

Number of

Spring Surveys

Number of

Fall Surveys

Jones Beach Boat Basin 11 13

Jones Beach West End 7 10

Jones Beach Nature Center 0 8

Lido West 2 7

Pike's Beach & Overlook 2 1

Species high counts

Boat

Basin

Spring

Boat

Basin

Fall

West

End

Spring

West

End Fall

Nature

Center

Fall

Lido

West

Spring

Lido

West Fall

Pike's

Beach

Spring

Pike's

Overlook

Fall

AMOY 12 260 15 16 5 10 41 1 1

BBPL 9 50 4 4 32 0 0 30 1

SEPL 3 7 2 10 23 0 117 0 0

PIPL 25 7 15 11 14 2 2 0 0

KILL 2 2 5 2 2 0 0 0 0

GRYE 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

WILL 6 1 4 9 0 0 0 14 25

SPSA 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0

WHIM 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0

Species high counts continued

Boat

Basin

Spring

Boat

Basin

Fall

West

End

Spring

West

End Fall

Nature

Center

Fall

Lido

West

Spring

Lido

West

Fall

Pike's

Beach

Spring

Pike's

Overlook

Fall

MAGO 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

RUTU 10 8 0 19 15 0 19 60 0

REKN 8 22 0 0 50 0 0 5 0

SAND 40 12 5 461 167 0 1100 89 3

SESA 500 31 230 53 1 0 2000 175 11

LESA 5 15 5 1 2 0 0 3 0

PUSA 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0

DUNL 7 500 0 34 50 0 119 379 0

SBDO 2 47 0 0 130 0 0 0 8

North Shore

Audubon

Society

Thanks to our partners…

Schumann

Foundation

Funders…

Our field techs…

Photo: Richard Young/Great Gull Island Project

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