Audubon credits conservation while urging residents to protect nesting and resting sites
Siesta Key’s beaches and shoreline are home to a great variety of shorebirds who live amongst us.
Shorebirds, as their name implies, live along the shoreline. To find their food, they dive into the water for fish to eat. Shorebird species found on and near Siesta Key include the least tern, snowy plover, American oystercatcher, black skimmer, and Wilson’s plovers. Least terns, black skimmers and snowy plovers all nest along Florida’s coasts and in the Sarasota area. Piping plovers also migrate to the Sarasota area during the fall and winter months but return to northern beaches for their breeding season.
One year after the hurricanes that impacted our coastline, scientists at Audubon Florida report that they were generally pleased by what they discovered during the past year as the Siesta Key and Sarasota region recovered. There was some good news to report…