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Monarch Tagging

  • Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center 150 Bay Parkway Wantagh, NY, 11793 United States (map)

FREE

Adults and Children Ages 6 and up | Citizen Science

Join our educators for an exciting community science program to capture, tag, and release Monarchs. The Monarch Watch Tagging Program is a large-scale community science project that was initiated in 1992 to help understand the dynamics of the monarch's spectacular fall migration through mark and recapture.

3:00-3:15: Sign In, Volunteer Registration

3:15-3:30: What is a Monarch? Where are they migrating?

3:30-4:15: Capturing Monarchs

4:15-4:30: Tag & Release

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