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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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2011 2012 2013 2014* 2015 2016 2017 2018
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Piping Plover Trends for Audubon New York Sites
# Pairs Productivity
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
Total 4 7+ 1 0.25
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American Oystercatcher Trends for Audubon New York Sites
Pairs Productivity
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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2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Num
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Year
Last Tern Trends for Audubon New York Sites
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
And, our dedicated volunteers!